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"Well, then you're just an idiot. Plenty of southerners from those areas would be happy to kick your dumb ass just for fun. You don't consider Charlotte (home of NASCAR) or Richmond (capital of the Confederacy) or Atlanta (GWIW) the South? Or Nashville? GFY."

Yeah...I got more snow in Charlotte than I ever did here in DEU. And the ski areas were closer there. Although to be fair, they did recently open up a ski area in Northeast Alabama.

"Your only idea of the South is swamps. Sucks for you. Again, like Speaks, what happened to you in the South?"

What happened to me? Nothing? I flew bombers out of Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, LA for years. There is nothing wrong with it, but unless you have a ski boat, which we did, outdoor activities weren't really a thing. And having grown up in Idaho, I always thought the Louisiana state motto of "Sportsman's Paradise" was ridiculous. No Elk, Moose, or big game. No trout or salmon. Ducks, but you can get duck anywhere. And that's true across the south. Arkansas has some interesting cold-water lakes where you can catch a Rainbow Trout, but that's about it.

And that's what it comes down to. Geography. The restaurants in Louisiana were great. The cost of living was unbeatable. But it lacks everything I want as a person who wants to spend time outdoors. California on the other hand, the geography is great, it's just everything else that sucks. Which is why I will likely wind up in Albania or Italy, which are California, but way better, and at a fraction of the cost. The last house I looked at in Calabria was 80k EUR. About what most of you idiots are going to waste on your next SUV.

Immigrants are and have been a net plus to the US economy for decades.

"Benefits of Immigration Outweigh the Costs"

www.bushcenter.org

"Immigrants are a fiscal boon to the U.S. In a new report released by the Cato Institute, the authors update a model created by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to examine the impacts of immigrants on the U.S. government's budget.

Their findings are clear:

In each year from 1994 to 2023, across all levels of government, immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits.

This resulted in a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 U.S. dollars over that period, including savings on interest payments on the national debt."

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www.brookings.edu

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