 OT - To All You SoCal Guys (and Girls), Do you like it there? |
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| riverman |
 Mar 3 2006, 09:05 PM
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Learn As I Go  Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: 18-January 05 From: Kitchener, ON Member No.: 3,466  |
My mind gets active when I have nothing to do, so while the site was down I started thinking about travel. I've always wanted to see California and one day I will, but I began to wonder 'Is it all it's cracked up to be?'
I think one of the reasons California looks so appealing is that it's always hyped in the movies and on TV - good weather, beautiful people, easy lifestyle, rust-free teeners. But the flipside of that is overcrowding, high cost of living, gang violence and smog. I know that every place has it's qualities (southwestern Ontario - clean cities, safe neighbourhoods, high standard of living, gorgeous summers) and we all live where we live for a reason. But every winter all I want to do is get away. I hate the snow and the cold. So tell me, is California all it's cracked up to be? For those of you born there, would you rather live somewhere else? For those of you who moved there, was it worth it? |
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| Aaron Cox |
Mar 3 2006, 09:06 PM
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Professional Lawn Dart Group: Retired Admin Posts: 24,541 Joined: 1-February 03 From: OC Member No.: 219 Region Association: Southern California |
love it and will never leave....
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| skline |
Mar 3 2006, 09:11 PM
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Born to Drive Group: Members Posts: 7,910 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Costa Mesa, CA Member No.: 17 Region Association: Southern California |
Consider it the lesser of two evils. All of your points are valid, but the snow and cold I could never live with. On the other hand, there are so many people here it makes it miserable to go anywhere almost any time of the day. It has its ups and downs. I suggest you come visit, and then when you leave, take a few poeple with you. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)
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| 914fan |
Mar 3 2006, 09:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 118 Joined: 17-January 05 From: Fountain Valley CA Member No.: 3,460 |
Take a lot of people with you. Lest make it a 914 only state. You can only live here if you own a 914. Then all the 914 would live rust free forever!!!!!!!!!! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/mueba.gif)
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| Porcharu |
Mar 3 2006, 09:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,314 Joined: 27-January 05 From: Campbell, CA Member No.: 3,518 Region Association: Northern California |
Only a tiny part of California is like what you see on TV - most of the place is empty. Once you get out of the coastal cities it's actually pretty uncrowded, it's really a different state outside of the cities. Here in the real "central coast" (bay area) it's packed and outside of the weather leaves alot to be desired. The weather is nice. |
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| Twystd1 |
Mar 3 2006, 09:20 PM
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You don't want to know... really..... Group: Members Posts: 2,514 Joined: 12-September 04 From: Newport Beach, California Member No.: 2,743 |
The CRACK is much better here in Kali...
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| eeyore |
Mar 3 2006, 09:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 889 Joined: 8-January 04 From: meridian, id Member No.: 1,533 Region Association: None |
I was born in San Diego, spent years 0-9 here.
Lived in Germany years 10-16 Came back to San Diego and been here since. I guess if you stay in a place long enough, your lifestyle and things the locale allows sort of fall into resonance. In Germany I loved skiing winter and riding my bicycle in the summer. Now I ride my motorcycle year-round. I'm the weird kind of biker that rides weekdays and drives a pickup truck on weekends. California also 'allows' lanesplitting, so this save me 10 minutes each way. Occasionally I miss having for-real weather, just for the ability have some sort of time-lock. Years and seasons run together -- "When did I last work on such-and-such? Let's see. It was pretty hot, I was wearing short pants. Oh yeah! That was February of '02!" Plus, the smog isn't so bad ever since we started parting out and cutting up rust-free teeners. |
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| Dave Bell |
Mar 3 2006, 09:32 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 234 Joined: 27-November 03 From: Santa Clarita, CA Member No.: 1,398 Region Association: None |
My wife was born and raised in Toronto... As she tells it, she was always jealous of all the americans that get to choose weather they want to live in cold or hot or tropical Hawaii for that matter.... I met here in Hawaii and she snagged me and now gets to live in the warmth year round down her in So Cal.
She gets pangs for Canada now and again... but that is fixed by visiting the cold... My father in law arrived 2-days ago for his mid winter 6-week stay with us... If we let him... he would live with us year round! Your milage may very. - Dave |
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| Joe Bob |
Mar 3 2006, 09:35 PM
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Retired admin, banned a few times Group: Members Posts: 17,427 Joined: 24-December 02 From: Boulder CO Member No.: 5 Region Association: None |
EXTREME
Cold sucks, snow sucks, rain sucks, heat sucks.....we have it all, just not in extremes...then add the beach, BIG BOOBS and blondes..... |
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| Howard |
Mar 3 2006, 09:59 PM
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Incontin(g)ent Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,785 Joined: 24-July 03 From: Westlake Village, CA Member No.: 943 Region Association: None 
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Doug, I looked up your city. Really looks nice, but after NY, Baltimore, and Minneapolis, I just don't miss the winters.
Discounting the L.A, Bay area, and San Diego, most of the state has low population density and crime rates. Good weather, schools, lifestyle, but the girls only look like Baywatch on Baywatch. I live in an area similar to yours in population, about 200,000. The biggest difference you would notice is real estate pricing and weather. Found a nice looking 1900 sq ft home in Cambridge for $305k, I assume CN, but don't know if web site was converting. Similar home here $650k USD. So anything geared to real estate prices (hotel rooms, etc.) is higher here, and with no socialized medicine, care and insurance will cost you more. most other costs comparable. Per capita income higher here, so there is some offset, but it still ain't cheap. But I'm 20 minutes from the beach all year long, and 2 hours to the slopes now if I really want to freeze my cookies for old times sake. Bottom line? We like it, but if our kids and granddaughter moved wto Kitchener, we would too. |
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| grantsfo |
Mar 3 2006, 10:33 PM
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Arrrrhhhh! Group: Members Posts: 4,327 Joined: 16-March 03 Member No.: 433 Region Association: None |
Just take a look at this site for a while. You'll get a good sense of the incredible places in the state.
http://www.virtualparks.org/states/california.html |
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| pete-stevers |
Mar 3 2006, 10:38 PM
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saved from fire! Group: Members Posts: 2,641 Joined: 10-October 04 From: Abbotsford,BC, Canada Member No.: 2,914 Region Association: Pacific Northwest 
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i would move there in a flash!!!! i am so tired of the rain here in BC....
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| Lou W |
Mar 3 2006, 10:51 PM
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"Here Kitty Kitty" my ass...... Group: Members Posts: 4,109 Joined: 9-May 04 From: Roseburg, OR. Member No.: 2,039 Region Association: Spain |
I was born and raised here, I did live in Roseburg oregon for a year. California is a nice place to visit, but I'd be out of here in a flash if I could.
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| boxstr |
Mar 3 2006, 11:07 PM
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MEMBER:PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION Group: Members Posts: 7,522 Joined: 25-December 02 From: OREGON Member No.: 12 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
I feel that I have the best of both worlds, a home in Lake Oswego.Oregon, rainy, and cold but nice summers,and a home in Palm Desert, Calif. I go there when I can't stand Oregon any longer. Then when I can't stand Calif. any longer I go back to Oregon, and then........ (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)
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| TINCAN914 |
Mar 3 2006, 11:15 PM
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Summer's Commin... Group: Members Posts: 2,440 Joined: 18-August 05 From: Colorado Springs, CO. Member No.: 4,611 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Born and raised here lived in Colorado for 5 years, and then moved back here. I'm moving back after living here for 20 years. I will miss the weather, but not the cost of living the smog, the crowds, or the traffic.
I will however miss the guy's in So cal that I have been fortunate to meet over the last few months, I only wish I would have had to opportunity to meet them sooner in life.. Great guy's everyone of them!! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif) |
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| lagunero |
Mar 3 2006, 11:32 PM
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Donkey Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 1,042 Joined: 8-January 04 From: orange county,ca Member No.: 1,531 |
It always comes down to how much paradise one can afford. The big and only difference for SoCal is that every aspiring actress will come here and that makes the grass a tad greener and our odds a little better.
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| carreraguy |
Mar 4 2006, 01:50 AM
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It's not your dad's 914! Group: Members Posts: 1,197 Joined: 17-October 03 From: San Jose, CA Member No.: 1,256 Region Association: Northern California |
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/agree.gif) I've lived in LA, San Diego and San Jose most of my adult life. There's WAY more to California than what you see in the media; i.e the wine country north of SF, the Sierra Nevada gold country between SF and Sacramento, the national parks such as Yosemite and Death Valley, Lake Tahoe for your snow fix, numerous public beaches for camping, and miles and miles of 914 fun driving roads such as the notorious Highway 1 that are free of snow year round. If you come, definitely visit SF, LA, Hollywood, and San Diego to get your fix of the places you've heard of and wanted to visit, but like traveling anywhere you've never been before, get out of the cities to really experience the totality of what the state has to offer (aside from its great year round climate)! |
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| army dude |
Mar 4 2006, 02:07 AM
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The answer is 42 Group: Members Posts: 218 Joined: 12-December 05 From: Sarasota, Fl Member No.: 5,265 |
I was stationed at what used to beNAS Miramar. I know it is a Marine base now but I was there for 4 years. I loved it! This was 85-90 and I haven't been back since but thought about it alot. I loved Mission Beach, Lajolla, Pacific Beach and Black Beach. They did alot of nude sunbathing there!!I had binoculars!!Saw all women, thank God!! Went to Tijuana alot and up to LA. Great times fo sho!!
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| Elliot_Cannon |
Mar 4 2006, 02:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Retired Members Posts: 1,922 Joined: 26-March 03 From: Orange County Ca Member No.: 480 Region Association: None |
Stay away from Corona. Or Riverside. Or San Bernardino. Or...just stay away. This is a crappy place to live. Tell all your friends. Come visit, spend some money, then go home.
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| highways |
Mar 4 2006, 03:16 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 613 Joined: 18-June 05 From: Los Angeles, CA Member No.: 4,296 |
Don't live east of the 405. Move to the coastal areas and help jack up the property prices. Or actually, don't move here- make the housing bubble burst, then you can move here once that's done. Just don't plan on commuting. House prices are unreal. And it's the fault of everyone who wants to move here. Better yet, just hang tight and wait for global warming to make your town 'sunny and warm'.
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