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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Simple answer
	Date:	7/23/2010 2:45:10 PM

Well I live in Cobb County, Georgia and I can tell you that our local government is pretty good. Don't know where you lived before but that is why home prices have stayed pretty stable, crime is under control, the schools are some of the best in the state and taxes are low. Of course Fulton and Dekalb Counties and the city of Atlanta are a mess. That's why people flee the inner city for the suburbs where the local government is much better, taxes are lower, schools are better, etc.

The point is pretty straight forward. If you live in a city or county with dysfunctional government you can move a few miles away and find better government. If you have a dysfunctional state government it may be more of a pain but people every day move out of California or New York to escape crime, traffic, high taxes and crummy government. However, if the Federal government is dysfunctional the only place to go is another country which is a lot more complicated, although I have friends from South Africa, Mexico, Germany and other countries that came here because compared to those countries we used to be much better off.

Hound, it sounds to me that you didn't do a very good job picking the places you lived. I specifically chose Georgia and Cobb County because of the good government. I recognize having lived in New Jersey and the DC area you really didn't have many good choices but I also notice you didn't pick any of those states to retire in. Why was that? I suspect you came south for the weather, the low taxes, low cost of living, relatively inexpensive housing, the lack of congestion, etc. Do you think it was some magical good luck that the south has those attributes? Believe me if we relocated the California legislature to Alabama they would screw it up in no time. But there are plenty of lakes up there but you made the rational choice to move here. You are proof positive of my thesis that local government is better in some places than others but the federal government is the same everywhere.

Thank you Hound for allowing me to use you to prove my point.