Originally Posted By im_monster_man:


Let's come back to how you feel after this next election and Ferguson is the governor. I'm predicting a mass exodus of which I'm gonna be part of.  I agree with your reasons this state is great but the cons are about to have a two-ton ass drop on the scale. I went though this 11 years ago when we had to move from New York and it has the same feeling this time.  New York started with magazine capacity, that's the main reason we left, and we've seen how it's continued from there.  Another prediction: red flag laws are going to be a major weapon used against Washington gun owners, New York started this as we left and it's only gotten worse.  The federal government is incentivizing state governments to use them, Ferguson is gonna be at the front of the line. I love it here too, wanted to make this my last move. Unfortunately, at this point in my life I don't want to be standing right up to their line in the sand they're drawing.  Tired of being infringed.

Originally Posted By mikeyb76:
And unfortunately, the majority of the influx of new WA residents aren't of the American mindset. They are of the mindset "the Gov't allows you to be Free." My wife works in tech, and has coworkers who fled the Eastern Bloc and came here. One common refrain: "I left [Eastern Europe] because of this s**t."

Be part of the exodus. Sadly, the conservative states are getting too much liberalism moving in.

Originally Posted By Procyon:


We said "so long" to WA state in 2022. Dickhead Inslee's actions in 2020 sealed it.

The gun laws passed under his tenure are asinine and repressive.  He passed two income taxes ("payroll taxes"). The gas tax increases. The massive influx of Californians.

I miss the mountains, I used to backpack every summer and fall. But the 2%-4% of the year that I got to be in the mountains didn't offset the 96%-98% of the rest of the time.

And FL has seen about a 1,000,000 increase in Republicans and decline of Democrats in the past few years. That's where we live now.

Originally Posted By Procyon:
We said "so long" to WA state in 2022. Dickhead Inslee's actions in 2020 sealed it.

The gun laws passed under his tenure are asinine and repressive.  He passed two income taxes ("payroll taxes"). The gas tax increases. The massive influx of Californians.