Why I Left California for Texas

Immediately’s visitor is the immensely common podcaster and author Bridget Phetasy, who just lately packed up her household and left Los Angeles for Texas in quest of reasonably priced dwelling, decrease crime, and quieter evenings—all inside a simple drive to Joe Rogan’s Comedy Mothership membership in Austin, the place she generally performs.

Leaving the hustle-heavy leisure capital of the world hasn’t dulled her edge, although. “What silly fucking occasions we dwell in,” reads a signature tweet (she’s a must-follow on that platform). In latest columns for The Spectator, she talks frankly about how she “discovered to cease worrying and love the ‘burbs,” when she realized she wanted to go away California, and talks with members of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood about “why Pleasure misplaced the general public.”

We discuss all that, particularly what motivated her and her husband to decide on Texas over California, and why she stays “politically homeless” regardless of simply shifting to a purple state. At one level in our dialog, she says that dwelling in a blue space surrounded by purple voters could be the perfect of all potential worlds. She additionally explains why she’s completed with Joe Biden and Donald Trump however muses over the circumstances beneath which she may simply vote for conservative Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Inside hours of our speaking, she messaged me with a hyperlink to a horrible DeSantis marketing campaign assault video accusing Donald Trump of being too trans-friendly and touting the Florida governor’s bona fides on shutting down gay-friendly actions within the Sunshine State. “I knew I by no means ought to have mentioned that I might vote for him,” she wrote, with fun/cry emoji. “Puke can we rerecord.”

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