I moved out of the US after the “be afraid” attitude got too crazy after 9/11. Other factors were no ability to obtain Health Insurance after my day-job went away (I am self-employed), and I strongly disagree with Bush’s policies towards other countries. I’d like to return to the US and am hoping Obama gets elected and some sort of option for Health Insurance is made available.
I also disagree that I should have to pay US taxes when I am not living there, but that’s a battle I’ll never win.
Ok, you left the country, you win!
Missouri isn’t perfect, but I’ve lived in a few different Missouri counties and I’ve NEVER had to go through all that rigamarole to pay my personal property taxes on my vehicles. Nor has anyone else I know. I have no idea why it happened to you. But for over 35 years, I’ve gotten a bill in the mail for my taxes and paid them by mail with a check. (Actually, I think you can do it online these days, but I’m an old fuddy-duddy.)
I was in Jasper and Newton counties between 1995-1999.
I knew someone that was a racist and believed in the skin head movement. About 10 years ago he decided that his neighborhood had gotten to “dark” so he decided to move to northern Idaho, his thinking is that he would be more accepted there. He found out that Idaho had a larger percentage of folks that did not think his way than the Seattle/Tacoma area. Last I heard he was living in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Not us - but we live in Virginia, which has a pretty major anti-gay law on the books:
The Washington Post did an article on a couple who moved out of state after this was passed (they had been together for 20+ years and had deep roots in their town). The two women across the street from our house moved not long after that, also (I don’t know for sure that they were in a gay relationship, as it was none of my business, but it seemed a reasonable assumption). I imagine there were many others.
I don’t know who told you that, but they were quite wrong.
Ferrets are required to be licensed in Minneapolis, just like dogs, cats, rabbits, etc., but certainly not illegal. Cost is $25 ($15 if neutered).
I met a lesbian this weekend who is leaving Michigan because the republican Attorney General has decided that an anti-gay marriage law passed there means that her employer can no longer offer them family medical benefits for her spouse and their children.
So she found a position here in Minneapolis that is actually lower-pay, but DOES offer family medical coverage.
Those laws are *very *rarely enforced against dudes who just have a few dogs who aren’t causing complaints. I’d have waiting until they were making dire threats.
In my case, my gun nut buddy moved from CA to NV becuase of the gun laws.
Argh, I thought back about it again, and they weren’t explicitly illegal but effectively so. This was many years ago. At the time I asked the personnel at Animal Control there about ferrets. I don’t know that they used the word “illegal” but either “not allowed” or “not welcome” was used. IIRC the given reason was their not accepting the effectiveness of the rabies vaccine in ferrets. Everything ferret-related that I read at the time emphasized the “not welcome in Mpls” thing when it discussed places that they were explicitly outlawed or “outlawed” via bureaucratic preference.
She was aware of that, but it was the principle of the thing, I guess.
I don’t own a pit bull, but my business logo is a breed that looks very much like one, and I refuse to do business in a city or state with anti-pit bull (or otherwise breed-specific) legislation. The laws themselves won’t affect me, but it’s the principle of the thing.
Not quite a law situation, but a colleague of mine moved from CA to Scotland with his wife and their dogs after Bush got re-elected. He had sworn that he would move if that happened, and he actually did.
I chose to live in Jersey rather than Pennsylvania because my same-sex relationship is frickin’ legal.