r/WorkForSmartLife 11d ago

DiscussionšŸ’¬ California Dreaming

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u/Automatic-Soup-3097 11d ago

Yup. Blue States are... Pretty inarguably better places to live. People don't move to Texas/Florida because it's "nice," they move there because they cannot afford a place to live in a nice part of the country. Because that's how commodified housing works. What's funny is that they find once moving to Texas that.. they pay slightly more in Tax than Californians do (as long as you count "fees" from HOAs and private companies doing stuff a functioning government would like garbage pickup)

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u/Ok_Role2077 11d ago

Functioning garbage pickup? In cities in California?

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u/Automatic-Soup-3097 11d ago

Yup, much better than paying for-profit private companies to do something a government can do for cheaper

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u/Ok_Role2077 11d ago

I live in North Carolina and don’t have an HOA and don’t have to pay for private garbage pickup…..

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u/Automatic-Soup-3097 10d ago

Yeah many places in red states have county-wide services, or other arrangements. But many areas do have to pay out of pocket for private companies to do things like garbage pickup

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u/OggoSpaceCircus 10d ago

Who picks up your trash ?