Muster point for new US posters directed here by noisy Twitter storm

Welcome to Terf Island 🏝️
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University of California in-state cost of attendance is excellent value.

However, U Texas in-state COA is also good value and no income tax.

But - there are state taxes, local taxes, property taxes, state income taxes, federal income taxes, county taxes, local charges for services like water and garbage disposal, and high housing prices almost everywhere people would want to live.

There are nine states where there is no state personal income tax. All have their attractions, but also drawbacks, and not everyone is able to up sticks and move from California to New Hampshire or Tennessee, and not everyone wants to move to Wyoming, Alaska, or Florida.

Welcome and to our new US arrivals. Pull up a seat and get comfy.

Fires and traffic put a lot of people off.

Question: are Americans leaving California because of the ideology?

"This is the first time California has had a net loss to their population since its founding in 1850"
twitter.com/patrickbetdavid/status/1507899744886136836

Snoodsy nobody really understands the US law partly because I suppose it differs by state and nobody in the UK really understands the whole representatives/senate/electoral college etc, and nobody in the US is allowed to talk about it.

There is definitely a need for co ordinated action over there. Good luck!

Is anyone else pissed about how House Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats are calling Republican Governor DeSantis’ Florida bill the “Don’t Say Gay” bill? It’s so intentionally misleading.

The bill limits classroom discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity from children ages 4-8. He wants to pull back the curriculum curtain and give parents a say in what teachers are teaching their very young children. How is this controversial in any way? Children this young don’t need to be sexualized. Let them be kids for a few years, bloody hell. (Love saying ‘bloody’ here.)

We then had Florida Democrats childishly marching around the state capital screaming “GAY GAY GAY.” Senate Democrats are tweeting “GAY.” Settle the fuck down.

The bill just doesn’t want the adults in charge to sexualize your toddlers and small children, also while telling them it’s okay to not tell their parents. Because telling children to keep secrets about their sexuality from their parents is always a fabulous idea.

I know many democrats who feel the same as I do on many of these issues. This is definitely becoming a bipartisan issue. Unfortunately the Biden Democrat agenda and most of the left-leaning US media have chosen this woke hill to die on.

Whew, vent over.

Howdy (we don’t really say that…very much) from Texas! Although we do say y’all a lot.

I just joined Wolf and am checking out Ovarit. I do wish there was a large scale forum for heretic witches like Mumsnet in the US. I now know more about the UK law than I do about the US.

Would love to connect further!

Me too @BettyFilous

@TheFnozwhowasmirage - I agree it’s a dive. Only stayed their overnight as we were visiting the Grand Canyon and Lake Powell

FlowerArranger I once spent a night in Page. The only things I can remember about it was that the town seemed to be a bit of a dive,it was expensive to stay there and I had chilli for dinner. We only stopped there because we'd been driving for hours and were too tired to go to the next town ( which I think was Holbrook,which we really liked).

[quote GrinitchSpinach]Is any of you CorrienteCanta on Twitter?

I thought this thread of hers, a response to the most recent round of discussion about about genderism v feminism on TERF Island and in the US, was very insightful:

mobile.twitter.com/corrientecanta/status/1507019004497387523[/quote]
I don't think any of us are, but I follow her. She's smart and a good woman to follow.

I'm in England, and I have Canadian friends working in London. They currently don't want to go back to Canada because of the hideous social environment there for them and their daughters.

Twitter - share away, OP. We get our names dragged through the mud on the regular. It's all sunlight.

@LostTxn it's not you, it's the poor formatting of threads on the site. Everything floats.

Welcome.
I have family in Tennessee, a very gc aunt though she wouldn't know the term. Who thinks men in women's sport is outrageous, I wouldn't dare tell her about the prisons.

Women are politically homeless everywhere. And I’m now thinking it’s not an accident.

Previously they denied us the vote by law, now they’re making it impossible for us to vote.