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I'm not leaving, I just bought a house (I have no mortgage) and I love it. I can't pull my kids out of school either, it would be bad for them. Plus where would I go? What would I do?
I Moved to California from Chicago, and I'm not going back to Illinois, Property taxes in Illinois are sky high, and most people I know are not working. For me the entertainment industry is really tanking, Lots of people including myself are out of work,which is really strange for December. California is really going to get difficult, and if it suffers we're probably going to suffer with it. What scares me is as California's tax revenues drop Sacramento keeps coming after us for more money, and they keep grabbing power as more and more people get on some form of aid. I feel trapped as this happens. I know the state and National debts will continue, it's unstoppable until things finally collapse. We'll all just have to live through this instability as the State and National debts skyrocket, and as the government grabs more and more to protect it's self, and then have to survive the aftermath of the collapse as well. We've already been living through 4 years of recession and I don't see any end to it. I feel trapped as this accident unfolds, I want to escape it, but escape to where? North Dakota or Montana? |
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when you say "entertainment industry" what is that? |
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I fabricate custom props, costumes and scenery for Ads. movies and theme parks. 85% of this industry works freelance, job to Job, It's almost like being self employed.
Ayatollah what are "gomonths" ? I've been self employed and "freelance" all my adult life, I'm use to feast and famine cycles. I am quite good "hoarding" during the feast cycle to compensate for the famine cycle. It's just that the last 5 years the "feast" has become a discount buffet with lots of jello and noodle choices instead of the prime rib. |
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OK, and now I understand what you do...did....should be doing. That's a tough field in that it is very specific. I've experienced the latter part as well. I make and keep less, and my projects are getting fewer in between. Competition is harsh too, with so many people who used to do something else, now trying their hand at my job. The scary thing about freelance-hood is the spectre of retirement, when what little was paid into SS will be further reduced by congress trying to stretch it farther, and inflation making it less worthy. |
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I mean it's the government coming to take what little we have to pay their people lavishly, and then short change us on Soc. Sec. and in the process kill the economy to maintain the status quo during the productive periods of our lives. Example: I bought my house in May and my property tax assessment was 40% ( yes that's 40%) higher than the purchase price. I thought I was protected by prop 13, but I wasn't. I appealed it and I was successful, but my point is that they still tried, and they are going to keep trying to get the insatiable money that they need. If I lost I would have been forced to come up with that money to feed that beast, and make it harder for myself. Their grab for money is really just starting. I'm not bitter though, I really don't think government workers are going to get those golden pensions that they have been promised. They are going to try though. In the end though the government can only squeeze so much blood out of a turnip, and we're the turnip. Retirement, I'm not sure that's going to happen for me, I've got two kids in grade school and a lot to pay for ahead of me. I feel lucky though, I dodged the housing bubble by staying alert, stashed away every penny when the going was good. I've got a good roof over our heads, I'm a sly fox, I know I'll find a way. |
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That's the truth. As much as I would like to run away from the problems we have in California, Someone's got to stay here and show some resistance.
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Clearly there is a whole section of society that thinks that you can always move away from something bad to something better, and that's why they don't get involved in their community. Their roots are always shallow |
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I see you just posted a video of the hiring of illegals. Well, I have been fighting that for years. I am experienced at trying to find legal help or doing the job my self, its getting pretty old and tiring. All day I see everything in the world falling into war and fighting and I wonder when some one will try to stop it but, next day I just see a replay. I truly wonder where everything is going. |
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