Like, a Virginian
OK, time to come clean. As some of you already knew and others figured out, all that talk about a cross-country road trip was technically true, as was the statement that I didn’t expect to be home until early March, but it was a tad misleading. It was a one-way road trip, and the home I intend to occupy in early March is not the one I left last week, but a brand-spanking new one out east. My understanding of the state of domicile rules is that your domicile changes the instant you enter the target state with the intent to remain there indefinitely. If so, I became a Virginia resident at 7:37 a.m. EST today. However, I do not have a Virginia ID yet, and don’t expect to until some time after I start my new job, so I guess you could call me an undocumented worker. Just don’t call me illegal, dammit; I’m not.
Generally, the answer is no. More specifically:
- No, I don’t have family in this state, but Mrs. X and I both have family scattered up and down the not-completely-left coast.
- No, I don’t have to take the Virginia bar, nor do I expect to do so anytime soon.
- No, I don’t completely rule that possibility out, either.
- No, my new house does not sit on a four-acre lot, only three. Neener.
- No, I didn’t get a transfer; this is a new job with a new company.
- No, I’m not going to tell you who that company is or what they do.
- No, I won’t blog about any topic germane to that company or any industry it is involved in, so there is no good reason for you to want to know who they are.
- No. Just …. no.
February 21st, 2006 at 10:46 pm
welcome to virginia.
I didn’t know they had 3 acre lots at the trailer park.
February 21st, 2006 at 10:56 pm
I was referring to the entire trailer park, not the tiny little nook our trailer is squeezed into.
February 21st, 2006 at 10:58 pm
[...] I guess it’s okay to tell you that Xrlq is no longer a Californian, since he just announced it. Congratulations to him on his new home on a three-acre lot in Virginia. [...]
February 21st, 2006 at 11:37 pm
[...] Xrlq’s secret is out so I can blog about it now. In 2008, the Republican Presidential candidate will lose in California by one more vote. While he and I had dinner the other night, he asked how much savings there was in building your own AR-15 vs. buying one. I said considerable. His eyes lit up. Mine did too because every time an AR-15 is brought into this world, SayUncle smiles, an angel gets its wings, and one more of Diane Feinstein’s brain cells dies. I even recommended that he head on over to Coal Creek Armory on his way out in the morning and snatch up a Rock River Arms lower receiver for $109 (good price!). Then he said he’d do that if he was willing to go to jail. I said my understanding was that a rifle (not a handgun) could be purchased legally out of state. [...]
February 21st, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Congratulations and good luck.
California’s loss in Virginia’s gain…
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:33 am
No comments.
February 22nd, 2006 at 6:59 am
Welcome to town, XRLQ. Look forward to seeing you and the wife again soon.
Incidentally, a friend of mine just took a job at the same company as you. It was a suprise to me to find two people in the space of a month going to work at
the Kitty-Kat Jiggly Bar, er, the same place. I hope you’ll bothmake a fortune in one’sdo well.February 22nd, 2006 at 9:13 am
Welcome to the Commonwealth.
It’s good to have another Virginia Blogger to add to the list.
We’ll have to have a Virginia Blogger Bash sometime.
And since you are a pro-freedom blogger, check out theVirginia Citizen’s Defense League and the Lafayette Gun Club
Good luck on your AR-15 build.
Curtis Stone
Aka Sailorcurt
Captain of a Crew of One
Norfolk
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:23 am
Wow! Congratulations for making it out of the forsaken mess we call California!
Viriginia, very nice. Congrats!
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:40 am
Welcome to Virginia.
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Congratulations from a former Virginian. If you’re anywhere in the Hampton Roads area, I can tell you somke of the better places to eat.
February 22nd, 2006 at 1:06 pm
I suppose the question to the last answer is… “Do you have a mortgage?”
[Actually, I do have a modest mortgage, but only because I got greedy and scored myself a Patterico-sized house on a 3-acre lot. If I had settled for a house similar to my old one, I would have a very small mortgage or none at all.]
;-)
btw, How does it work that you don’t have to take the Virginia Bar?
[In-house counsels are not required to be admitted in-state, as long as they are admitted somewhere. California has the same rule, BTW.]
February 22nd, 2006 at 1:10 pm
Well, I love Virginia; I’ll be hoofin’ it in Charlottesville for a big ol family wedding in May…
Enjoy the spring, when it comes — sublime.
February 22nd, 2006 at 2:19 pm
hahahahahahahahaha.
Glad you finally made it.
February 22nd, 2006 at 3:11 pm
So will this make you a Nationals fan instead of a fan of the
California, err,Anaheim, err, Los Angeles Angels of Anahiem, California?February 22nd, 2006 at 4:38 pm
But what about California redistricting?
February 22nd, 2006 at 6:18 pm
TGirsch: I doubt it, but it probably will preclude Xrlq 2.0 from ever becoming an Angels fan.
Flap: What about it? If there’s a proposal to redistrict California out of Congress completely, sign me up.
February 22nd, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Ah, very cool, thanks kindly for letting me know. Hmm…now where can I get a job as an in-house counsel…preferably in Idaho.
February 22nd, 2006 at 11:23 pm
[...] Unlike so many others he isn’t moving his domain, rather he is physically moving his family from California to Virginia. [...]
February 23rd, 2006 at 5:06 am
Well, congratulations and all that, but why the secrecy? Afraid you would be chased down and dragged back by the other Bear-Flaggers if we found out before you crossed the state line?
February 23rd, 2006 at 7:22 am
Nah, I alerted the League two weeks before I moved. If you’re not on that mail list, drop Kasey Traeger a line. The reason I didn’t announce in advance is because I was afraid the Kalifornia border police would revoke my exit visa if I made too much of a fuss in advance of the move. Plus, I just felt like effing with all y’all.
February 23rd, 2006 at 9:04 am
“I just felt like effing with all y’all.”
Look at that, only been here a few days and he’s already got the proper plural form of “y’all” down pat.
All he needs now is a couple rusted out ’57 Chevys in his back yard and a gun rack in the back window of his pickup and he’ll fit right in.
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Sailorcurt:
You forgot to mention: the Chevys need to be up on blocks. :)
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:55 pm
I take it that a 2004 Chevy Tahoe doesn’t count?
February 23rd, 2006 at 5:20 pm
up here in refined but increasingly liberal nova, a tahoe would do just fine.
down where you are, not unless it’s painted primer, preferably both gray and red. it’s the symbolism. y’all gotta fit in.
February 24th, 2006 at 8:30 am
Don’t listen to him, XRLQ. People who think that Virginia=Redneck South haven’t been to the real South. Georgia and Alabama are the South. Central VA is almost yankee.
December 10th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
[...] him) in liberal California, bemoaning his status as a left coast conservative. In 2006, he moved to Virginia, and lo and behold, Democrat Jim Webb defeated incumbent Republican George “macaca” [...]
February 21st, 2009 at 11:58 am
When we moved here in 1989-1990 we found that we had moved into some of the bitterest cold winter weather I had ever heard of (and I spent some considerable time topside in the Sixth Fleet). One day we were talking to a docent at DeSoto Bend, and along the way mentioned that we had moved here from California. She looked at us for the longest time and finally said:
Why?!!??
If she reads the blogs, she knows why.
(And it was hard for me to do –I was born there, my father was born there, his mother and father were born there, our three kids grew up there…..)
There are nice folks in Virginia, and when I was driving a big truck, Virginia was one of my favorite states.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Things you must know before you become a REAL Virginian.
1. The world was created in 1607.
2. The Holy Trinity is LEE, Stewart and Jackson.
3. Richmond is The Capital. Washington, D.C. is just an unfortunate blight on the Maryland shore of the Potomac.
4. Mr. Jefferson is ALWAYS the final authority on matters politic.
Welcome home. We’ve missed you.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Congratulations on the successful relocation of your family. I made it out in the California to Virginia refugee relocation program in 2002. Despite 2.5 years in CA I managed to maintain ID citizenship, license and registration, so CA didn’t realize they needed to give me an exit visa.
There certainly is a need for a VA blogger bash. Maybe we are just spoiled out here with VCDL, a plethora of gun shows, and a great many gun friendly social opportunities.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Stretch, thanks for the belated welcome but FYI, I’m in North Carolina now, having lost both my job and my Virginianity in ’07. My only remaining tie to the Old Dominion is a house that’s been on the market for more than a year now.
Chris, you may want to check with Jim Hoeft. He put on an excellent blogger convention about two weeks before I left.