I currently live in California, but it’s literally impossible to afford to buy a house.

Where are some good places to move to? I was thinking about Washington State, but I’m not sure I could handle the snow.

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    Nah, Texas is way worse than you say.

    Just having a baby is dangerous. Pregnancy complications can quickly lead to a death of both. Doctors are leaving the state. A miscarriage could be prosecuted as murder.

    Abbott is really pushing the school vouchers because private schools can set “standards” so specific as to keep certain people out of getting an education.

    If you ever need unemployment, Medicaid, or social security, Texas does everything possible to refuse money from the federal government to fund these programs.

    Non-cis people are losing rights. The DPS for driver licenses is a mess because not having a driver license makes people think they can’t vote

    Voter rolls have been purged.

    Many places receiving state money have closed their diversity programs. Abbott doesn’t understand that wheelchair ramps and wide doors are “inclusion.”

    And if you think DE&I isn’t important, imagine trying to wash your hands at an automatic sink, only to find out the faucet sensor was only trained on a different skin color so it doesn’t see you.

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      What city are you in? Do you actually see those issues in your day to day life? I’m not discounting how terrible Abbott is at all! And yes, he’s definitely trying to make things worse, but we have plenty of people (44% in 2022) who disagree with him. I live in Dallas and work in public education with people from a wide variety of backgrounds. My husband works in Ft. Worth, where it’s considerably more conservative, and his company is very invested in DEI. Yes, there are difficult places and situations, but it’s really not the shitshow you see on tv. Gerrymandering has given us a government that’s not representative of our population. Extremes make the news.