Trying to escape from LA

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Update in post 32: I finally moved!

Hi everybody! New user here. My wife and I are looking for a new state to call home. We're both CA born and raised but we don't want to raise kids here in LA. We hope to make it out to Denver and Colorado Springs sometime soon to get an idea of the different 'hoods. I know California expats are a sore subject for Coloradans, but we are both right-of-center (more libertarian actually) and we are both shooters. The last thing we want is to turn CO into CA.

I'm a Life Member of the NRA and I'm involved in grassroots gun rights organizations here in CA. I followed the anti-gun bills in CO and I was extremely heartened to see how much support there is for gun rights in Colorado. California has a very committed grassroots pro-gun community but we are so outnumbered it's difficult for us to make much of a difference. I was happy to donate to the Morse recall efforts and I'm even happier that those two tyrants were sent packing.

Anyway it looks like you guys have a great community here and I hope that one day I can call myself a Coloradan.