He Would Rather Be Homeless in California Than Live in Alabama

[BigmanPigman]

https://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/homeless-ca-alabama/

"I can say without a shadow of a doubt I’d rather live here in California, where the air is cleaner, the weather is warmer, and I can get real Mexican food than in any shit hole red state,” Rigglesby said. “I used to be a stock broker and day trader. When the economy took a dump in in 2007, I freefalled financially for a time, and eventually wound up on the streets. But before then, I tried reducing my cost of living by moving from New York to Alabama. Worst mistake of my life.”

"That state sucks. The politics are so hard right that there are no services whatsoever, and the people are dumb as shit because they don’t fund their schools well enough. You know, on account of taxes being theft or whatever,” Herb said. “I’m even a pretty fiscally conservative guy, but even I have a limit of how much inbred stupidity I’m willing to subject myself to.”

[braddy]

1. He probably makes lots of friends no matter where he lives.

[MichMan]

2. News flash Mr. Rigglesby, there are more than two states

[Karadeniz]

3. I, too, would hate to live in the deep South.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I live in the south...I border Mexico.

It is a place called San Diego, CA. This is the only "southern state" I would live in.

[rusty quoin]

5. Well, I lived there also for almost 4 years. It was wonderful, but too expensive. It was living in

Sunshine. It was the best place I ever lived, and I lived in many places.

[mountain grammy]

7. We're hanging out in Yuma AZ

Escaping the cold Colorado winter. Feels like Mexico with everyone speaking Spanish. Little girl around 10 speaking Spanish to her mom turned around and gave me directions in perfect English. I feel dumb.

Heard this joke. What do you call someone who knows 3 languages? Trilingual
What do you call someone who knows 2 languages? Bilingual.
What do you call someone who knows 1 language? American.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I know what you mean.

Most of my 1st graders were bilingual since most were from Asian countries or Spanish speaking countries. I felt like the dumb dumb. They were fantastic when we would get a new student who didn't speak English and they would fight over who would sit next to him/her and help them out with translating. They even translated for me and their parents during conferences.

I learned in Second Lang training that the part of the brain that learns languages is huge up until the age of about 10 and then it shrinks to about the size of a lima bean by 25 years old. That made me feel a little better.

[spooky3]

10. When I was in the fifth grade, our class was part of an experiment. We were given the same Spanish

lessons as an eighth grade class, then tested at the end. We outperformed them.

My lima bean has probably shriveled to just about nothing these days. Languages have always been very difficult for me .

[mountain grammy]

13. As big as a Lima bean? 😆

Doubt I’m even there but yes, that makes me feel better too.

[BigmanPigman]

16. Personally, I believe mine is more like

the size of a grain of sand.

[masmdu]

20. MIT reveals Adults learn new language as well as kids

https://medium.com/@chacon/mit-scientists-prove-adults-learn-language-to-fluency-nearly-as-well-as-children-1de888d1d45f

Or

https://tinyurl.com/y6krubhq

It’s highly possible that this learning difference by age is not due to some magic change in brain plasticity, but simply that adults don’t have as much time to be exposed as children and often hit a point where it stops being helpful to improve after a while. They become totally fluent at this slower pace and reaching native-level mastery provides little additional advantage. Maybe it’s not that it’s harder for older learners or that they’re not capable, maybe it’s just that they don’t have the same opportunity.

[BigmanPigman]

21. I only know what I read and learned from my classes.

[FreeState]

15. Hi from North Park m/t

[BigmanPigman]

17. Hi, from University Heights/Hillcrest.

10 min away.

[FreeState]

18. Probably not even that!

I live in north park but most people think it’s University Heights (by Our Lady of Peace/Texas street off of Adams). Howdy neighbor

[BigmanPigman]

19. I'm two blocks from the DMV.

[FreeState]

22. 5 minutes by car

I can bike there in about 10. I love our area (although the park redo is awful).

[BigmanPigman]

23. Yes, it is very liberal around here.

Everybody I meet around here is complimentary when I wear my Lock Him Up earrings and have anti-tRump stickers on my car as I have for 3 years. Soooooo glad I do not live in Santee where they love him.

[FreeState]

24. Agreed

I’ve been here 20 years and have seen SD swing from red to blueish. It’s a fantastic place to live - I can’t see myself anywhere else. My neighborhood is full of LGBT Dems and supportive community members. Tons of pot heads too

[wryter2000]

11. I just landed in Florida

And saw my first “Hillary for prison” t-shirt. And btw, the Fort Lauderdale airport sucks. I will come back to Florida but not here.

[ancianita]

6. ...

laughter of recognition ... confident stupidity is everywhere these days

[More_Cowbell]

8. California's "safety net" is stretched thin

And more and more homeless people keep coming here every year to stretch it thinner. It sounds like this guy was choosing between being homeless in Alabama (since he couldn't keep up his house payments) or homeless in California.

Frankly, it annoys me to read about someone who came here to be homeless. I can't afford to own property in California, where I'm licensed to work. When I retire it'll definitely be to somewhere much cheaper, and the political climate will be fairly far down on my list of concerns.

[mountain grammy]

14. There's an old saying from the Great Depression

Don’t freeze while you starve. Sadly that’s reality for too many Americans.

[liberaltrucker]

12. As a former Alabamian, I concur

I go back to visit family...........briefly.