HaleyBaron
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California is expensive cause of its blue government.
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She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
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For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
EyeBRollin
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No. California is expensive because of geography.
HaleyBaron
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There are tons of state with the same geography as California that are not as expensive. The only reason it is expensive is because rich people with a superiority complex hauled themselves up on the coastal states and created a monopoly of power. This isn't even an argument. Literally the story of Hollywood.
EyeBRollin
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Nah. What other states have 8,000 mountains less than 50 miles from an 800 mile long coastline?
HaleyBaron
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Mountains are not the selling point of California [not the only one anyway].
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You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
EyeBRollin
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Not the point.
How many domiciles can be built on a mountain?
How many mountains are in Texas?
Actually Texas has more than 40 mountain ranges. Western part of state on mostly remote 90% private land. Didn’t know that until I did a lookup, and guess where I live…
Not as high as others, but some top out in the 8K ft. range.
We’re #7 in coastline length behind #5 Cali…
EyeBRollin
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Point is that geography dictates the supply and demand of available housing. Texas is flat and land rich. California, Manhattan/NYC, and the DMV are not.
Yes, mostly an area driven phenomenon, usually focused on cities or geographic features like a coast or mountains. Put all three close together and it turns into $$$ dynamite.
My kids house in Austin, Tx has increased (edit: $575K in market value since they bought it for 925K two years ago. Our major cities are built out also. The only thing keeping in city house price inflation somewhat under control is our cities are not land locked. Not unknown here for lower incomes to buy as far as 50 miles or farther out of city and commute.
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