Dear California: It's not me. It's you. And I'm outta here!

only the strong survive. Take all the California transplant from other state with you too.

 

Oh Cali, you have always been the hot Silicon injected Mistress to me.

Loads of fun, and always new conquests to be had. Loved every single time I have been there except for that one terrible year I actually lived there

 

yeah but where's she gonna go? jersey?

 

I wonder if California will lay awake at night and burn all of her previous notes?

 

right on! i moved from california 3 1/2 years ago. i lived there for 59 years and when i started paying $700 a year for the tags on my truck i started thinking getting out. the tags on my truck here in arkansas were $23.75 and unless you get out in the rural areas, the roads are better. i got sick of california and what you had to pay to live there. the natives were ok, but the transplants all came out there expecting california to support them. the illegal problem is 10 times greater there than what it is here. didn't know where we wanted to move to, but when my son moved out here, because of his wife, it was a logical choice, the wife wanted to be around her grandkids. i have to deal with poison oak and ticks out here but i treat them pretty much the same way i did with the morons out there, i avoid them. good luck and tell me where you moved to!

 

I thought she was gonna say it was prop 8 that pissed her off.

 

Silly frumundah.

People who are against prop 8 don't write these kinds of letters.

 

i was thinking Washington when i read this

this confirmed it at the bottom

 

well some of the mexicans i talked to out there said they thought that california should be given back to mexico, well as long as i lived there, they had done such a fine job governing tiajuana, i wanted them to wait a little longer. now i'm gone, california is having financial problems, let the president of mexico have the headaches.

 

I understand the cost of living difference out there but I'd invite her to come down to the south with me and let her walk outside and within 10 seconds start sweating her *** off from the humidity only to find that there is no ocean to go cool off in before she makes any final decisions. Oh, and when you stop sweating for a few weeks you freeze your *** off in the winter. We get the best of both worlds in TN.

 

we don't have an ocean here but we have a lake about a half mile away, and guess what, you don't have to worry about sharks. as far as freezing in the winter, i think its great. it makes it seem like the holidays. electricity is cheaper out here so running the A/C is no problem. plus in the winter you don't have to mow the yard all the time and that is a lot of work. never had more than a quarter acre in california, here i have 3 acres.

even better, i'm retired so if the weather doesn't agree with me, i don't have to go out in it.

 

Yard work is against my religion. So I'm fine with not having land. Shark attacks are pretty rare. I don't mind taking my chances. But I envy your retirement. Being able to choose what to do is definitely the best way to go about it. Enjoy it.

Btw, I'm from and live in Memphis. Do you live close?

 

California's economy is in the absolute crapper. Other than that I really don't have any other complaints. The nice thing about hot weather in the summer is all the hotties come out wearing practically nothing.

 

real close, i live next door, NW arkansas. moved from california 4 years ago. i stayed in a 5th wheel trailer while our house was being built. my wife came out 6 mo later.

 

you ought to live here. i'm right next to the university of arkansas in fayetteville. all the hotties are looking to land a husband and move to where the action is. they wear short shorts in the winter here.

 

i was out there last month, and for 2 of the 4 days, gross smog kept the sun away.

 

Oh, goody...another Californian moving to Washington.

 

More for me.

 

more taxes?

 

you gotta understand the way so californians think, if they can't see it, its not healthy to breathe.

 

Hey, if the lady wants the best of both worlds she should move to the Keys! Great Sunrises and Sunsets, Stone Crab and real Key Lime Pie. Won't find any of that in Washington.

 

the prettiest sunsets i have ever seen were in hawaii. the lack of smog there lets all the color come thru. its a beautiful place to visit but i sure as hell wouldn't live there. the cost of living is a killer, you pay for those friggin sunsets.

 

We have spectacular sunsets, and Dungeness and King crab...and believe it or not, a local outfit called Shoofly Pie a few blocks from my house, and they make authentic key lime pie. Damn good, too.

I do love the Keys, though. One of the few things I do still miss after 14 years...and stone crab. There's simply nothing like it.

 

I live by the beach so no smog here, nice cool Cali breezes and fresh air.

 

I am...but unlike the trillions of CA-WA transplants, I embraced the common courtesies of driving in WA; you know, like turn signals and not deliberately trying to hurt pedestrians.

 

for an uneducated Brit pls explain prop 13. . thanks

 

i lived on the beach, in ventura. i hated it. the friggin sand got everywhere, it would stick to your feet and at night when you go to bed it was like sleeping on emery cloth. in the winters, you always had the fog, a real wet fog.

one thing i do miss is getting together with a bunch and head to the beach at night and go "grunion" hunting. to explain to everybody what that is, its a fish that only lays its eggs in so cal. they come up at high tide and lay their eggs in the sand and go out with the ebbtide. most people don't believe it. they kinda figure its like "snipe" hunting" my wife is from indiana and she never believed it until i caught one, you can only use your hands.

 

they sure have the fires to do it with. the problem with all those fires, one starts by accident then you have a bunch of firebugs startng the others.

 

The good ole grunion run. Aint nothing better then living in Cali. The beach, the mountains, the woman, the nightlife, the weather, the taxes. Wouldnt want it any other way. I would be bored to death anywhere else. Been to florida cant stand the humidity and rain, been to Seattle it rains every freakin day, been to New York and well to me its to dirty to live there , anywhere else is land locked. I love my cali. born and raised. It way over crowded anyways so the more that leave the better IMO.

 

you forgot the earthquakes. its disappointing to think you really moved some chick, then find out it was the earth that moved. WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA - some assembly required

 

I'll deal with a Earthquake once every 5yrs then deal with a Hurricane or Tornado 5x a year every freakin year. I grew up with Earthquakes so im not scared of them and I react pretty quick. I had a co worker scared to sh!t when he felt a earthquake for the first time. He went back to Philly shortly after.

 

never had a tornado come through rogers arkansas. besides you have time, with a weather radio, to seek shelter, where do you hide from an earthquake, i put up with earthquakes a lot longer than you have, i was born in california and lived there til i was 60, never was at peace with the big ones. and mark my words, another big one is comin. had one in south america last month, had one in mexico this month. they work their way north.

 

still worth the risk IMO.

 

I have been here since 1982. I would say I more worried about the damage the politicians have done, and will continue to do to this state, then the damage mother nature has and could cause.

 

The best sunsets I've ever seen are in South Carolina's low country and the Savannah GA area. All the rivers that open into the ocean reflect the sunset, and gives it a gorgeous deep red. Now, I live in Tennessee, and haven't seen one that compared yet.

-I miss South Carolina.

 

She should move to Florida. I wish I could move back to Florida every day. Growing up there I didn't realize how good I had it. One day....