From someone who’s had enough:
“So what are a couple of old white straight folks to do in the face of threats from these nasty children [BLM, Antifa]? We are going to walk away. Goodbye, Minneapolis; goodbye, Minnesota. You go ahead and defund your police and protect the “mostly peaceful” rioters. We are moving out of the state to a town so small that you have probably never heard of it. We are moving to a state where the governor respects the Constitution and the Bill of Rights within it.
“No, I’m not flaunting this. There is no challenge in my words. But where we are going, nobody wears masks. And everybody has guns.”
Welcome to the United States, Jerry.
Good luck to that walking away business. We’ve been wanting to move farther away from the major metropolises and have been looking for acreage for a couple years, in vain. Property prices have skyrocketed. We’ve made 2 offers on empty land and the sellers won’t budge. They are on a fishing expedition and are under no pressure to sell, hoping they’ll eventually land a rich dumbass. That ain’t me. I ain’t rich and I ain’t dumb.
Made the move in May 2019 from NJ to PA, my county went 3-1 for Trump (the cemeteries are small) and the local volunteer fire and ambulance squads have gun raffles (not just hunting rifles either, hand-guns and at least one AR-15 per raffle). Taxes are a quarter of was I used to pay, we got a MUCH bigger house for what was left after we paid the NJ mortgage with money left over for renovations plus an emergency fund. I gave up 4-5 hours a day of commuting via public transportation (I can’t imagine what a petri dish that was under the Chinkflu).
Yeah, our governor is a statist prick, but the legislature is solidly R, and I have a feeling the governor will be replaced when he comes up for re-election. If we could only give Philly to NJ, maybe we could re-route the Delaware River?
Mark D
I assume you mean to re-route it through Philly, not just around it to push it into NJ?
No, I meant push Philly into NJ
So where do you run to? Given the overweening power of the Federales, sooner or later they will follow you.
The idea is that they go for the lowest hanging fruit first. Remember, gov’t drones are the laziest people on the planet. If they have to drive down a 5 mile dirt road to get to you, and risk getting their GD heads blown off in route, they probably won’t bother you.
“What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, polkers, or whatever else was at hand?”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
So he’s moving to South Dakota. Thought about it myself.
Make sure you move far enough.
We moved from south Jersey to the PHL suburbs, which subsequently turned Blue. It wasn’t really far enough.