A lot of those metrics are also misleading. It's also typically a left person picking metrics they care about as opposed to metrics a right person would care about... and vice versa. Both groups have a hard time with telling the other group of people that they know better about how the other group should live. Both prefer authoritarian as opposed to libertarian.
Education is low everywhere except in the past. I saw an infographic recently that Illinois has worse reading scores than three red Midwestern states, while spending 3x as much to have that privilege. Low income is also rarely stated alongside cost of living. I'm sure there are some off-the-beaten-path sweet spots that have higher income and lower costs of living. That's where it's at. I routinely see liberal TV people complain about just how bad the bureaucracy has gotten in some of the very blue states, which is part of why people are leaving. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darin Steffl" <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 5:40:56 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 100 Mbps for $15 California Bill This bill hasn't passed but it's a proposal. Hopefully they have smaller ISP exemptions. California is a beautiful state with great weather and lots of things to do. The biggest reason some people leave is because of high costs. High costs are primarily because people want to live there. If it was a bad place to live, the costs would be lower like red states. I'm not picking on CA as a whole but I can question some of their policies which is normal. No one should agree with everything each party does. I'd rather live in a blue state any day over a red state which is plagued with problems. So many high profile or wealthy Republicans live in blue states and cities while attacking them on Fox. I assume if blue states/cities were so bad, they would choose to live in Arkansas, Alabama, Missouri, or any number of other poor states that are routinely ranked the worst states to live in due to low income, high crimes rates, low education rates, etc. For blue states being so bad, Republicans sure like living in and visiting them. Fox "news" is in New York by the way. On Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 5:31 PM Dev < d...@logicalwebhost.com > wrote: Luckily CA has managed the most expensive diesel in the country (I think), raft loads of taxes and excruciating regulatory environment to deal with as a carrier, so this would be most welcome if the goal is to further reduce viability of small ISP's. They say the governor is the best salesman of U-Hauls leaving for other states, maybe his sales numbers dipped slightly, needs to make up for lost time. On Mar 21, 2025, at 3:20 PM, Darin Steffl < darin.ste...@mnwifi.com > wrote: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/california-bill-would-force-isps-to-offer-100mbps-plans-for-15-a-month/ This seems crazy. Not sure how many ISP's can afford to offer 100/20 Mbps for $15/month. If California wants to subsidize the monthly cost, then maybe this works. Say they chip in $25/month and the customer pays $15 for a total of $40/month revenue to the ISP then this works. But I could not remain in business if this was a requirement in MN. NY has something similar but they exempt ISP's under 100k customers in the state if I remember. This would cover wisp's or small providers. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
