Hey Jennifer, please make mens performance tees with the XX-XY logo in more colors! I have the black, I don't like heather gray (how did this ever become popular?), I need more options! I see plenty of cool colors for the non-logo performance tees, but I want to broadcast the message! (Already sent this as an email to the company, but now I'm going straight to the top!)
It was so hard to speak up with anything covid related in 2020/2021. (Now its easy b/c we all know so much of it was such a farce ..) BUT you were brave . Kudos to you for that. And someday your children will thank you.
Most of the country is pretty much live and live. In Florida, my neighbor on one side has a Trump flag, and the one on the other supported Biden. We’ll get together for an occasional glass of wine. California is in a weird bubble.
Compared to California, you'd be correct. Especially the "Not yet" part.
As sure as you moved there from California, there will be ever more and more and more because California is so bad and getting worse.
The same people that flee California will love it in Colorado, all the while voting for the same failed policies they had in California. It doesn't happen fast, but slow, over years and decades. It's already been underway for quite some time. You can't see it because you are new and everything looks better to you having been in California.
Maybe you were never part of the problem in California and you won't be in Colorado either. Won't matter, the state is already overwhelmed and there are plenty more Californians with the means to move to Colorado.
I hear you. After moving 5 times in 12 years (training, military), my family and I finally settled, for good, in a deeply blue city that we had a very long personal and emotional connection to. We thought we were in our forever home. That was 2018. In 2020 we saw how ugly our neighbors and community could be, if just given the chance and the imprimatur of science and moral superiority. Our schools stayed closed throughout the 20-21 school year and remained deeply weird in the 21-22 and even 22-23 years. We paid for a private school in 20-21 that was miraculously open (imagine that!), but still worked hard advocating for the schools to open, failing spectacularly that school year. Our kids really wanted to return to their public school and their friends in 21-22 so we gutted that out, with the masks and the testing and quarantines and anything else they could do to torture our kids. In 2022 I had the opportunity to take a job in another city and I enthusiastically left the home and the community I thought I'd be in forever. We literally moved 40 miles away, but a new city and new culture across the state border restored some of my faith in neighbors and community.
I’m curious what state you moved to? I am in Michigan and even if Trump took the state, it’s still Deep, Deep Blue in a lot of the counties including the one I live in. My husband retires in 3 years. I am already looking elsewhere to live.
Not for me but be comfortable in all you and your family do. Your Mayor is absolutely off the charts of liberalism. Invite the illegals you want to protect to your home, Mayor.
“They sent us email updates constantly that a student had tested positive — a remote student. I didn’t care about any student testing positive but a remote student who my kid had never met? What the fuck.”
These people terrify me. Because you know you’re dealing with a lunatic. There’s no other explanation if, when alone, in a room safe from listening devices, they *still* think this is an issue… lunatics.
My advice is listen for any gender woo instruction at the school, counter it with biological reality and avoid the Denver "trans community" who are quite strident. My grown son got into therapy while living in Denver, as a child of a father now identifying as trans. Suddenly my son's language was doctrinaire and antagonistic. Trinidad, CO is the Dr. Marci/Mark Bowers town near Denver, where "sex reassignment surgery" is the local economy.
Most likely a Spanish language program isn't going to spend too much time on Gender Unicorn (a worksheet cooked up by misled teens paid by the Arcus Foundation) and the families there are more likely to be on the same page with you.
The dangers of wrong sex hormones are surfacing--I just interviewed with detransitioner Ray Alex Williams, who survived a pulmonary embolism (clot in the lungs, usually fatal) due to his intake of oral estrogen.
I visited my escape home that is being built, a less than a mile from the Colorado River and California, in a town my wife sadly calls "Satan's Asshole," this weekend. Our only daughter, 23, can't image living anywhere else but SoCal (of course she is behind the Orange Curtain in south Orange county) so Mama needed to be as close as possible to her with hopes of eventual Love, Marriage, and Grand-kids. So this summer I will say goodby to the state of my birth, my father's birth, and where I have lived the majority of my life. And the reasons I am leaving are the side effects (cost of everything, lack of free speech and overall sanity) of the one party political system.
The biggest satisfaction I have is that at least for now we are not selling our place which means thanks to Prop 13 it is still taxed in 1998 values, so I can prevent the Democrats who run the state from getting the increase in revenue that selling the place would provide. I can barely afford to keep both since working daughter pays a very below market rent and that keeps the two women, who I love deeply, happy. And huge love to my wife for reluctantly going along with the Arizona move. She still watches "Good Morning America" so politics are not her thing.
I worry about Arizona long term too, as people who can't afford CA move there, but for now it is a purple state which I like. Too Blue is really bad, worse than too Red but only by a little, but I like a diversity of both opinions and leadership.
Jennifer, I understand wanting a city. I only got over that in middle age. You might too, eventually.
I work out of state, for now, but Colorado is still 'home' and I own a couple houses there. Bought 'em cheap, years before property values exploded. One is way up in the high country. Best investment I ever made. For now it's a crash pad for my occasional ski vacations.
My other place, currently rented out, is in Delta, 45 minutes SE of Grand Junction, at the foot of the Grand Mesa. You should go on a road trip and check out the Western Slope, it's the state's best-kept secret. Delta is a nice little town. Hotchkiss and Paonia are worth checking out too.
The region is mostly high desert, but if you want 'high country' you just drive up top the Mesa, east past Paonia or south down into the San Juans. Durango is a progressive vipers' nest, but it isn't really 'Western Slope.' The rest of the region is pretty conservative, which you might find to be a nice bonus.
Colorado's Govrrnor Jared Polis handled Covid so well that President Trump invited claim to the White House. Trump was rude as could be, but Polis bucked up and smiled. He earned my vote that day.
Hey Jennifer, please make mens performance tees with the XX-XY logo in more colors! I have the black, I don't like heather gray (how did this ever become popular?), I need more options! I see plenty of cool colors for the non-logo performance tees, but I want to broadcast the message! (Already sent this as an email to the company, but now I'm going straight to the top!)
Working on it!
And nicer baseball caps!
Coming!
It was so hard to speak up with anything covid related in 2020/2021. (Now its easy b/c we all know so much of it was such a farce ..) BUT you were brave . Kudos to you for that. And someday your children will thank you.
Most of the country is pretty much live and live. In Florida, my neighbor on one side has a Trump flag, and the one on the other supported Biden. We’ll get together for an occasional glass of wine. California is in a weird bubble.
Compared to California, you'd be correct. Especially the "Not yet" part.
As sure as you moved there from California, there will be ever more and more and more because California is so bad and getting worse.
The same people that flee California will love it in Colorado, all the while voting for the same failed policies they had in California. It doesn't happen fast, but slow, over years and decades. It's already been underway for quite some time. You can't see it because you are new and everything looks better to you having been in California.
Maybe you were never part of the problem in California and you won't be in Colorado either. Won't matter, the state is already overwhelmed and there are plenty more Californians with the means to move to Colorado.
Why did the schools stay closed so long? Teaching is the Best Job Possible without any pesky kids underfoot!
Teachers union backed teachers who didn’t want to return to work in person
I dunno, we’re in Denver and can’t speak too highly of any of the city’s current policies
Not saying they’re good just saying it’s better than San Francisco
I hear you. After moving 5 times in 12 years (training, military), my family and I finally settled, for good, in a deeply blue city that we had a very long personal and emotional connection to. We thought we were in our forever home. That was 2018. In 2020 we saw how ugly our neighbors and community could be, if just given the chance and the imprimatur of science and moral superiority. Our schools stayed closed throughout the 20-21 school year and remained deeply weird in the 21-22 and even 22-23 years. We paid for a private school in 20-21 that was miraculously open (imagine that!), but still worked hard advocating for the schools to open, failing spectacularly that school year. Our kids really wanted to return to their public school and their friends in 21-22 so we gutted that out, with the masks and the testing and quarantines and anything else they could do to torture our kids. In 2022 I had the opportunity to take a job in another city and I enthusiastically left the home and the community I thought I'd be in forever. We literally moved 40 miles away, but a new city and new culture across the state border restored some of my faith in neighbors and community.
I’m curious what state you moved to? I am in Michigan and even if Trump took the state, it’s still Deep, Deep Blue in a lot of the counties including the one I live in. My husband retires in 3 years. I am already looking elsewhere to live.
We moved from Michigan to Ohio, and more importantly we moved from an intensely blue city to a much more moderate/normal type of place.
Personal choice, Jenn.
Visited CO many times. Inclusive of Denver.
Not for me but be comfortable in all you and your family do. Your Mayor is absolutely off the charts of liberalism. Invite the illegals you want to protect to your home, Mayor.
“They sent us email updates constantly that a student had tested positive — a remote student. I didn’t care about any student testing positive but a remote student who my kid had never met? What the fuck.”
These people terrify me. Because you know you’re dealing with a lunatic. There’s no other explanation if, when alone, in a room safe from listening devices, they *still* think this is an issue… lunatics.
I like your writing. It helps your views align with mine.
My advice is listen for any gender woo instruction at the school, counter it with biological reality and avoid the Denver "trans community" who are quite strident. My grown son got into therapy while living in Denver, as a child of a father now identifying as trans. Suddenly my son's language was doctrinaire and antagonistic. Trinidad, CO is the Dr. Marci/Mark Bowers town near Denver, where "sex reassignment surgery" is the local economy.
Most likely a Spanish language program isn't going to spend too much time on Gender Unicorn (a worksheet cooked up by misled teens paid by the Arcus Foundation) and the families there are more likely to be on the same page with you.
The dangers of wrong sex hormones are surfacing--I just interviewed with detransitioner Ray Alex Williams, who survived a pulmonary embolism (clot in the lungs, usually fatal) due to his intake of oral estrogen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO508jRS7x0&t=238s
Colorado is known as East California. Californicators have been ruining this state for nearly forty years. Too many libtards live here.
I visited my escape home that is being built, a less than a mile from the Colorado River and California, in a town my wife sadly calls "Satan's Asshole," this weekend. Our only daughter, 23, can't image living anywhere else but SoCal (of course she is behind the Orange Curtain in south Orange county) so Mama needed to be as close as possible to her with hopes of eventual Love, Marriage, and Grand-kids. So this summer I will say goodby to the state of my birth, my father's birth, and where I have lived the majority of my life. And the reasons I am leaving are the side effects (cost of everything, lack of free speech and overall sanity) of the one party political system.
The biggest satisfaction I have is that at least for now we are not selling our place which means thanks to Prop 13 it is still taxed in 1998 values, so I can prevent the Democrats who run the state from getting the increase in revenue that selling the place would provide. I can barely afford to keep both since working daughter pays a very below market rent and that keeps the two women, who I love deeply, happy. And huge love to my wife for reluctantly going along with the Arizona move. She still watches "Good Morning America" so politics are not her thing.
I worry about Arizona long term too, as people who can't afford CA move there, but for now it is a purple state which I like. Too Blue is really bad, worse than too Red but only by a little, but I like a diversity of both opinions and leadership.
Thanks as always for a thought provoking piece.
Jennifer, I understand wanting a city. I only got over that in middle age. You might too, eventually.
I work out of state, for now, but Colorado is still 'home' and I own a couple houses there. Bought 'em cheap, years before property values exploded. One is way up in the high country. Best investment I ever made. For now it's a crash pad for my occasional ski vacations.
My other place, currently rented out, is in Delta, 45 minutes SE of Grand Junction, at the foot of the Grand Mesa. You should go on a road trip and check out the Western Slope, it's the state's best-kept secret. Delta is a nice little town. Hotchkiss and Paonia are worth checking out too.
The region is mostly high desert, but if you want 'high country' you just drive up top the Mesa, east past Paonia or south down into the San Juans. Durango is a progressive vipers' nest, but it isn't really 'Western Slope.' The rest of the region is pretty conservative, which you might find to be a nice bonus.
Colorado's Govrrnor Jared Polis handled Covid so well that President Trump invited claim to the White House. Trump was rude as could be, but Polis bucked up and smiled. He earned my vote that day.