I’m similar age to you, but I keep up with the dozen or so close friends I made during highschool and college. We make time, several times a year, to get together. What’s more I’ve found it hard to develop comparable friendships later in life —- not enough time, hard to prioritize, whatever.
So maybe just a different person than you wrote this.
Anti-California sentiment in the context of small businesses generally, the FTB generally, and particularly in the intersection of these two, is eminently reasonable. The system is garbage, it’s designed to extract as much revenue as possible from large orgs and it absolutely fucks independents.
OT: So many folks find themselves moving “home” when kids arrive, for a variety of reasons. As someone considering doing the same I’d be curious to hear yours.
I spent last summer in the Midwest (on a lake) and I found it first comforting (no fire season!) and then distressing as the rains failed to come and smoke eventually arrived instead. One of the driest summers I can recall. P
I think every economic migrant I've ever met (myself included) talks about moving home realtively soon "I'm only here for 2/5/ < 10 years", but very few of us do because we become established, make new friends, acquire lots of possessions. Some DO move home for major life events like kids arriving (or leaving) but I don't think it's as many as you assume, it's just very notable.
I'm lucky enough to have two sets of family still back home, close enough to visit easily but far enough to make it meaningful and intentional. The desire to move back has weakened every year.
Sure, but before I left Google last year, it was kind of crazy to see how many ex-pat Canadian Googlers transferred from Mountain View to the Waterloo office. Something something, Trump, something something, COVID.
Lots of people returning to their home country when things got a bit crazy.
My guess is the biggest reason is to be closer to friends, family, and/or community. Having help to raise kids is huge. And when you have kids, you begin to focus on the real important things in life, and the type of environment you want your children to grow up in, and speaking for myself personally, I wanted them around as much family and love as possible.
It's also easier to do this now with more remote work opportunities and with more tech hubs across the country now.
Yeah, one of my wife and I's biggest mistakes was staying here in Ontario and settling even deeper into our property after her mother passed away. We should have moved at least temporarily to Alberta where my parents are, because it's been so hard raising kids (and now teens) without any close support. And now we're kind of stuck here, so. When you have kids, having close and extended family nearby is worth more than anything.
Pick your poison. Last summer was great because the lack of moisture meant a lack of mosquitoes which meant more enjoyable outdoorsing. I went an entire trip in the boundary waters without using bug spray. Unbelievable!
It’s honestly a fucking nightmare to live here, especially with kids. I’m a crazy “leftist” where I grew up but SF/CA is bonkers (e.g. re: [1] — are you fucking kidding me? Have you not met a single real fucking living human being? My family has a “curse” we ascribe to all the clumsy folks of our blood and I assure you there are more than can be reasonably blamed on chance).
(personally I don't understand what your saying / what the point is, but I'm also tired. I'm not GP btw. -- in what ways is it a nightmare for example? What's a real human and a not real human? "the clumsy folks of our blood" -- I don't understand, how are they clumsy for example)
I don’t think that is “open source” then, more like you have a source-available freemium model? People can see the source code, and use it for free, but that’s all?
If someone makes their own changes can they distribute them? Can they charge money for them? Or is the idea that people can contribute code, but only back to you, which you can sell?
Yes, you can get a pledged asset line, a secured line of credit collateralized by your portfolio. A PAL is not for a particular purpose, so you can use it for pretty much whatever you want — other than buying securities.
So maybe just a different person than you wrote this.