I was there for 10 days around Christmas, and I guess the neighbor came to introduce herself to us. It's 15 minutes from any type of store or mall. It's got a pool, a barn, a greenhouse, and a chicken coop. It's a gated community with wide open spaces. We bought a four-acre home, 5,400 square feet, with all the bells and whistles, for $1.275 million. We looked at a home in Texas in November as an investment property, thinking, "Hey, down the road when the boys graduate, my wife and I would like somewhere to escape to and retire to." But then we thought, "Why are we waiting? Why are we prolonging the inevitable?" We contemplated for about a week and decided to just make a move. So we're focusing on another state, specifically Texas. And I don't see us expanding much more in California as I could elsewhere. I'm going to maintain the business that I have in California because my employees are absolutely wonderful, but I have to have a sustaining business for them down the road. I've had three attempted break-ins in my business specifically and numerous in the businesses around me. We recently saw someone streaking naked down the street in Woodland Hills. But the government's got to step up and tend to their needs. But outside that bubble and the people we've met, it is a bit of a terrifying environment in greater Los Angeles. Their new school is a wonderful environment. COVID pushed us into the private school system primarily because of all the rules and regulations that were being implemented. They're not going to stop at those making $200,000. And so they're not going to stop at those making $400,000. Well if you're pushing out the 5% of the 10% that pay the taxes, you've got to go deeper and pick up that revenue from those down the line. You've got people being pushed out of California. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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