Nothing beautiful about California but the weather. It's so great they're all moving to Texas.
As for politics, the discussion was civil, factual and concise and commentary appropriate based on the discussion as hand. Much of it was about the ins and outs and the cost of living.
Politics and liberal lunacy will soon play a huge factor in the ownership and use of our beloved Shelbys this forum is here to promote and protect because of the usual eco-alarmist and they will become no more than a dust-collecting two ton trinket of the past if we allow it. The very freedoms paid for in blood by many of us are being eroded daily by the left because civil discourse is silenced if it is contrary to the weak minded and easily offended.
Politics are already playing a factor in our hobby and the mere mention of an internal combustion engine will soon become a crime punished in some form or another. I have already had comments made about my Shelby as the reason/contributor to so-called global warming.
Even the mention of a firearm seems to wad some people's panties discounting the fact we are free because of them, and those of us who took them up against enemies.
We are headed down the same road with our vehicles.
That wasn't political but a statement of the current infection that destroys logic and common sense and any ability for civil discussion.
P.S. I'll be in Ithaca, NY. Sunday through Wednesday if you'd like to have a face to face discussion, Ron. Monday is the only day I won't being they are interring my sister-in-law there.
Yours Truly, Keith
WOW, I could not agree with you more! When the conversation is about a nice place to retire to, how can you not talk about politics (political climate) when the move can be the most important decision of your lives! I don't know one Shelby owner here who would buy a Shelby without opening the hood upon inspection. Maybe??? Are there a few who have done that??? WOW! And, some might like to live where property taxes run about an average of $10K in NY anyway. They might enjoy giving the locals all that money, after all, potholes are everywhere here. We get to enjoy our cars about 6 months out of the year.
As far as the 1/2 part of the "Dumb and Dumber" states (that would be California and New York), I am sure CA is a beautiful State, (some of my family has lived there for many years, moved out since), Upstate New York is also beautiful, the Finger Lakes are a wonderful place, (although you can see the decay), we have many wonderful places to go, and we have NYC with up until a few years ago was a fun place to go, I will not enter that zone anymore after my last visit. What I hate is the $20K plus property taxes a home owner will pay a year, yes a year! Unless you own a house that is $100K or less maybe you can get away with about $5-7K a year? My mother's house 5 years ago was $7900.00 for a house that we sold for 135K....That is what I will not miss!
This post has not politics, with the exception of the word and relative conversation.
I am going up to my garage now to pull out the motor out of my GT350 so I can put it up for sale and tell everyone it runs great! And, you don't need to open the hood to look at the motor, trust me! You don't need to open the hood on it, because you will not be allowed to ask about it....LOL
Anyway, good luck in finding your safe haven! You have 50 choices and I can think of 3 I would not touch...I hear Idaho is not as nice as it used to be either....(climate change has hit there also).