DesertRatTom, I do agree with you regarding San Diego weather and that is why I originally moved here. But the liberal loonies in Sacramento have lost their minds!
They just invoked a 12 cent gas tax (20 cents on diesel) and $120 adder to your car registration each year. And it isn't going to road building or repair. It averages around $700 per year for the average family, however, does not take into account the impact on goods and services delivered by truck to brick & mortar stores. For example, trucks deliver goods to Walmart and will charge them more because their diesel is more. Walmart, in turn, will pass that on to us with higher prices. It is the end user who gets shafted.
Then let us talk about the 12% surcharge Sacramento is planning on all health care services rendered in order to pay for healthcare for illegal aliens. YES, it's true! Remember, we are now a friggin' Sanctuary State. So if I go to the doctor and he charges me $200 which Medicare and my supplement will pay for, I will have to cash over $24 to the doctor which will go to the state for our poor illegal aliens. Medicare won't pay it nor the supplemental insurance I have. This is basically a 12% sales tax on your medical which insurance carriers will not pay for.
Would you like to talk about property taxes? Last year my property taxes were around $5,000 for the year. I just get reappraised because I build a woodshop and I now have to pay an extra $2,000 per year. I am retired living on a fixed income and can not afford to pay for all these special projects the politician want to do in order to get reelected.
So my wife and I have invoked our 1-year program. We have 1 year to sell off all our extra possessions in preparation to move. Our current targets are Las Vegas (we have family there), Phoenix, Sedona, Utah or perhaps somewhere in Texas. We are thinking of traveling in our motorhome during the hottest summer months. Tijuana weather is the same as San Diego but the drug cartels scare me and I can't own property there. About 50% of my friends are also planning on leaving rather than being taxed out of our homes. If you have any suggestions, I am all ears.