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Posted by BEI Design on June 28, 2009, 5:29 pm
Pogonip wrote:
> Ursula Schrader wrote:
> >
> > Oh no, it was that thing about the Brick-of-the-month
> > club. It seems clear that Oregoneans
> > and Californians feel like some West- and Eastgermans
> > for eachother, desperately wishing the wall back. The
> > question is just, why do the Oregoneans and
> > Californians feel that way?
>
> Some years ago now, Californians who used to visit Oregon
> started moving there. They've done the same thing in
> Nevada. The Californians move because they want lower
> taxes, lower living expenses. Houses were priced much
> lower in Oregon (and Nevada) so they could
> sell their California houses and either buy a much nicer
> house or an equivalent house and invest the rest of the
> money.
>
> This only works for a while. The influx of Californians
> drove the prices up on the houses for sale. The increase
> in
> population plus Californians' demands for equivalent
> government services drove up taxes. There's a reason
> taxes in Oregon and Nevada were lower than California's -
> there are far fewer services supplied by
> the government.
> So, Oregonian humor came up with the Brick-of-the-Month
> Club. Really, nobody minded the Californians coming for
> a visit, staying on the coast or other resorts, paying
> their way at hotels, motels,
> restaurants, gas stations, etc., it's when they started
> moving in lock, stock, and barrel that the trouble
> started.
Yeah, what she said! ;-)
Beverly
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