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re: Why would ANYBODY in their right mind live in California?

Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:07 pm to
Posted by everytrueson
Los Angeles
Member since Mar 2012
6510 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:07 pm to
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the people there are really wonderful.


It’s beautiful here and I am definitely wonderful.
Posted by roadGator
Member since Feb 2009
145277 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:07 pm to
Did blue iguana. Good but I cannot get into moles.

We tried them all. I’m a hot food nut and that has been challenging here.

I’ll check out the fishing spots.

I’m dying for a side by side.
This post was edited on 5/3/24 at 12:09 pm
Posted by Great Plains Drifter
Member since Jul 2019
5789 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:23 pm to
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Yeah ok, but the state itself is beautiful and full of wonderful people. Look at it from outside the narrow mindset of downtown LA or downtown San Fran. It’s quite a massive state! Lots of different viewpoints and lots of changing scenery. Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley was beautiful as well!


No disagreement on that aspect of it. California’s natural beauty is unparalleled.

Unfortunately none of those areas are shielded/immune from the extreme left progressive political policies which are serving to drive away the middle class.
Posted by Richleau
Member since Dec 2018
2744 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:23 pm to
Honest question, how many of yall have actually been to California? If so, where did you go?
Posted by BHTiger
Charleston
Member since Dec 2017
5976 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:28 pm to
Absolutely stunning natural beautiful state top to bottom with anything you could ever want minus San Fran, LA and Sacramento areas.......

Politics , illegals and crime are destroying it quickly
Posted by Great Plains Drifter
Member since Jul 2019
5789 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:30 pm to
As for myself, several times over the years/decades from San Diego along up the coast and as far north and then inward to Chico.

For most of my life it was always the state I ultimately aspired to settle permanently but life worked out a different path.
Posted by Richleau
Member since Dec 2018
2744 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:31 pm to
Life has a funny way of doing that. Thanks for sharing! Also, is your name a take on Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter?
This post was edited on 5/3/24 at 12:32 pm
Posted by UtahCajun
Member since Jul 2021
650 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:35 pm to
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I’m a hot food nut and that has been challenging here


Hottest food in the area is chicken. They have Houston Hot Chicken (which is from Vegas and not Houston) and they go up to 2million scofields. Then there is Pretty Bird downtown.

Best selection of hot sauce is Grove Market and Deli which is somewhere around 1800 south Main street. They have a HUGE selection of hot sauce as well as the very best tuna sandwich I have ever had. The thing is huge and is only $10.
Posted by Great Plains Drifter
Member since Jul 2019
5789 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:37 pm to
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Life has a funny way of doing that. Thanks for sharing! Also, is your name a take on Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter?


Clint is and will always be The Man. Love the old Eastwood “spaghetti Westerns”.
Posted by Richleau
Member since Dec 2018
2744 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:38 pm to
He was especially terrifying in that one! Hot damn!
Posted by Apache
San Diego
Member since Dec 2013
2580 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:38 pm to
This thread has convinced me to leave San Diego and move to Shreveport.
Posted by davyjones
NELA
Member since Feb 2019
32159 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:39 pm to
In most places there you can simply drop trow and take a dump immediately when the urge strikes. Which is nice.
Posted by CR4090
Member since Apr 2023
4341 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:41 pm to
Admittedly I have not been in about 8 years. Still have family in SF and L.A. for some strange reason.

But the financial problems, migration pattern, political policies and crime don't lie.
Posted by AUCom96
Alabama
Member since May 2020
5638 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:44 pm to
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Look at it from outside the narrow mindset of downtown LA or downtown San Fran.


That IS California. That's the bulk of the population, that's the economy, that's the politics, that's the social mindset and that's the sum of the problems that are driving population out of the state in record numbers.

It's a beautiful state, but it's not the only one. There are plenty of nice people who live there, but there are nice people everywhere. The problems California does have are large, rapidly spreading and driving those problems into other states where people don't want them.
Posted by Figgy
CenCal
Member since May 2020
7960 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:46 pm to
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Unfortunately none of those areas are shielded/immune from the extreme left progressive political policies which are serving to drive away the middle class.


I'm going to keep reminding you guys that the state is so much more than the coast. There is a mindset from people outside of the state that California is just the coast. My backdrop is the Sierra Nevadas. I can see the Coastal Range too. I can be in Yosemite in an hour. I've got fishing, white water rapids, hunting.. all manner of outdoor activities in my backyard and we vote red. You have to get outside of the LA & Bay Area bubbles to see what the state really is. Once you do that you'll have a very different impression. Otherwise you've been manipulated by Hollywood and marketing efforts. Not all coastal areas are these liberal enclaves that get forced down your throats. But that is what is promoted.

Watch this video. We go here every year and it's not quite 90 minutes away. We can ski here too. It's absolutely amazing and a total getaway from the city. Come and see the real California. Skip the tourist traps.

Posted by Richleau
Member since Dec 2018
2744 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:49 pm to
That’s kind of the same as saying Texas is Houston, Dallas and Austin. It’s simply not.
Posted by roadGator
Member since Feb 2009
145277 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:52 pm to
Will check them out after I get back from a couple of weeks away from town.
Posted by Richleau
Member since Dec 2018
2744 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:52 pm to
That’s stunning! I still need to explore Northern California!
Posted by UtahCajun
Member since Jul 2021
650 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:55 pm to
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 hot chicks everywhere (at least in SoCal)


Very overrated. After living in a few places, SoCal ranks behind SLC and Houston for me.
Posted by roadGator
Member since Feb 2009
145277 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:56 pm to
SLC

Hot blondes every where. I was not expecting that.
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