CAL DMV Horrors....Are you Waiting?

[Ulu]

Success! I have plates and no issues!

I was told the CHP will be taking over the DMV administration.
Basically the inspection took two minutes and we stood around and talked about cars for half an hour.
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[Splitdog]

I moved from California 7 months ago. 6 months later I get a registration bill in the mail. I threw it away. 2 months later I get another one stating they will come after me for the money with a collection agency. I failed to 'notify' them that my cars are no longer there. I had to write them a letter. I fucking hate California, and am so glad I left that liberal shithole of a state.
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#notacallooker

[62DoKaGuy]

[Ulu]

Other states will do that too, if you don’t return your old plates.
License plates are issued to you, but they don’t belong to you.
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[Jacks]

[Ulu]

I woke up at midnight and had to walk out in the garage and look at the car, just to see it with the license plates on.

It’s like a dream now. Like all the pita paperwork issues never happened at all.

Overall everyone at the DMV and CHP were very nice. They couldn’t do what I wanted, but in the end they did what I needed.

And it couldn’t have worked out better, legally.

I will not have a salvage title, a special construction certificate, smog inspection requirements, use fees, or even a headlight test and alignment. Nobody asked to see my wipers or hear the horn. They didn’t want to hear the muffler.

Nuthin’! I just need a front plate bracket now, a few chrome nuts, and chrome plate frames and we’ll be on the road.
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[Splitdog]

[Abscate]

If you think Jack was rude, send him his money back. He’ll be out of your life forever.
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[Splitdog]

He's already out of my life. I'll keep the money. I worked for it.
After all, the govt insisted it be this way.....it's kinda nice to be on the receiving end.
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#notacallooker

[KTPhil]

Not quite. California's debt is about $151B, which is the highest absolute value of all states, but 14th on a per-capita basis. So upper third, but not tops.

Not all debt is bad. Much of it is capital debt, to fund major construction projects, which helps us all (except for that damn Crazy Train to nowhere).

I am on the fence about leaving the state when I retire. What is happening here is not sustainable financially or socially.

[Splitdog]

My property taxes were $9300 a year, and I owned the property outright, electric bill $700 a month (in the summer), + DMV exorbitant fees, etc.
A couple of things were the deciding factor for me; the vast, hopeless homeless condition everywhere, the crime, and I was able to cash out my home for a nice sum.
"Goodbye, city life, Green Acres we are there!"

Look up the amount of people leaving Cali. Don't be scared.
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#notacallooker

[sb001]

[Jon Schmid]

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I’m taking a left at the Y, all the way to San Frisco.

I’ll stop in El Toro to buy a lawn mower
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[Jon Schmid]

[Ulu]

If you poor bastards are from Los Angeles, or most of Southern California, then I understand why you hate the place. I used to have to go down there on business and it was awful.

The state architect’s office was practically in WATTS. Ok not quite, But if you missed your freeway exit and took the next one you should Not stop and get out of the car.

Even going to the fancy high-rise office of an architect on Wilshire Boulevard. made me happy I was driving a rental car.

The truth is that if they don’t clean up that mess on the coast before it creeps all the way to the Sierra Nevada and winds up on my front porch, I will probably be heading for parts unknown myownself.

There’s some serious tectonic activity out there by I5. They’ve had a mud geyser going for sometime that has been undermining the railroad tracks. It’s coming from deep down because surface efforts to mitigate the damage are completely ineffectual.

If it starts to spread along the edge of the fault line we could have an interesting mud river or string of steaming mud pots, between me and the coast.
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[Jon Schmid]

"So to those of you who like California the way it is, fine. Just dont ask those of us in other states to pay for your mistake."

For the record, CA gives FAR more back to the Feds than we receive in "benefits" from them. I've lived in the L.A. area my whole life and while I avoid downtown and South Central, the rest of the area is just fine.

[Splitdog]

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