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re: Anybody live in California?
Posted on 5/29/14 at 10:29 am to soccerfüt
Posted on 5/29/14 at 10:29 am to soccerfüt
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Just kidding. It's a social trend-setter. Conservative folks in the rest of the US hate to hear that, but it's mores are ahead of most of the rest of the country.
Kind of true, except that it adopts stuff from other regions, converts it to Californian, and then exports it.
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Posted on 5/29/14 at 10:33 am to Montezuma
You can buy a house around SLO for $300k. It is a cool place, but a little isolated (from L.A. and S.F.). Big college there, so it is a cool town with good rest/bars. Too cold to ever go in the water for me, but the beach is nice in the summer. Lots of tar.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 10:41 am to GeeOH
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Bottom line, with the costs, your job isn't much better. You may make more money, but you sow d your life around liberals, high taxes, high prices, and an ever increasing illegal immigrant population. Don't forget the constant drought conditions.
But the weather is nice. Yippeeee
frick that place. Beautiful and all, but run by liberal idiots who give non Americans more attention and sympathy than our veterans.
Showing that you have no concept of the Central Coast area. It is all farms and conservatives.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 10:55 am to ZacAttack
quote:Do you like to fish? The central coast has some great rockfishing.
ZacAttack
Do you ride a motorcycle? Some awesome rides around SLO.
CA was once a great state. It has become a lot less "free" and with that big governance and restrictions on everything comes really high taxes. It's a trade off but just about everything is.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 11:19 am to ZacAttack
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Angry much? It's a good job, professor at a university, so I'm not chasing some crazy dream of a paycheck that may or may not be there. The reason they are recruiting from 2300 miles away is that there are only 6 universities that offer the degree I have and texas a&m is the furthest west.
street cleaning at 6 am 3 days week
2 hour parking everywhere/meters $3/hour
Food SUCKS(bunch of 3rd world people who can't work in their profession all decide to be cooks(they aren't))
random smell of rotten fish(I love Chinese food in LA, won't touch it here)
Tagging everywhere(I want to stalk bus stops at night with a paintball gun and just pelt whoever is tagging)
Homeless laying in his own shite, people walk over him(as well as crazy people yelling everywhere))
dirty deformed Asian old people randomly walking everywhere
etc,etc,etc
....the "weather" is great, the "view of the Bay" is nice.....but it's really a disgustingly dirty city....you wouldn't want to raise a kid here AT ALL....I can't understand the tolerance....remove rent control and see the rats and roaches scurry
SLO...is much cleaner comparatively
....but why are you asking us if there's only 6 places in the country you can get a job? Take it and be happy you weren't 7th on the National list.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 7:43 pm to lsunurse
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Most people would live in California if they could afford to and could find a job there.
-This.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 7:44 pm to ZacAttack
Take the job barner!
Posted on 5/29/14 at 7:55 pm to Farkwad
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This ^^... I live there and like it. I go camping, hiking and skiing. It is a fun place that can wear on you a bit. I keep a close circle of friends with similar outlooks on life and have a larger group of eclectic friends that are great people. You will encounter the hippie, the commie, the hipster liberal, and the protester, so never discuss religion or politics in large groups and just stomach the absolute liberal commie shite that will spew forth when you get around some of them. As a Southerner you should be able to drink their asses under the table, so use that as a weapon to assert Southern Alpha (just kidding! sort of... maybe)
However, outside of the major cities, it is a different story. The native Californians are a lot like Southerners and are fantastic people. There are so few of them really. Tons of foreigners! You will like if you are single and young - go for it!
That's because a significant chunk of them are descendant from Southerners...or Okies. Steinbeck drew on very real history in his descriptions of California in the 1930's. There were two major migrations from the southeast to California (post-Civil War and Depression). There's an academic argument that much of the so-called laid-back California culture is a relic of some of the southern Anglos who came to the place (though stripped of many of the cultural trappings of the South).
Posted on 5/29/14 at 8:12 pm to AbuTheMonkey
I was about to say that... Kidding! Grapes of Wrath was a great read,Interesting stuff. You very rarely meet someone born and raised living in the major cities except in the ethnic neighborhoods. I find that the people inhabiting the mountains, wine country and sleepy coastal towns are all very much like Southerners. I believe that California's number one industry is agriculture - at least it used to be.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 10:04 pm to lsunurse
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Most people would live in California if they could afford to and could find a job there.
i hate it when i see this.
cali is not overly expensive at all. its all about location. and jobs are everywhere. look on craigslist you will see plenty of jobs. or you could grow weed and make a 500,000 a year pretty easily.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 10:48 pm to ZacAttack
I'm in California now, and everyday I think I am the Time Traveller in H.G. Wells' Time Machine. Here is my extreme generalization. Californians are truly like the Eloi. It is hard to explain but everything seems to be about their own atomistic paradise. And since all of their whims are generally catered to, they have grown ethereally weak and naive. Sure they are liberal but in this very shallow ahistorical way.
In contrast liberals in New York and DC, other places I have lived just seem sharper and tougher and more knowledgable about the world, more realist.
I have not seen any Morlocks, but this would be a great place for them to build their lair.
Again my extreme generalization, and I have met the conservative rural folk, ordered food from Latins who don't speak a lick of English, and been amongst the many separate Asian towns.
Oh and being from Louisiana, their food is sub-par.
In contrast liberals in New York and DC, other places I have lived just seem sharper and tougher and more knowledgable about the world, more realist.
I have not seen any Morlocks, but this would be a great place for them to build their lair.
Again my extreme generalization, and I have met the conservative rural folk, ordered food from Latins who don't speak a lick of English, and been amongst the many separate Asian towns.
Oh and being from Louisiana, their food is sub-par.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:37 am to OleWar
I've been in California for just over a month now (moved from Baton Rouge) and so far it has been great. I work in Silicon Valley but my wife and I are renting a house in Half Moon Bay about half a mile from the beach. There are a lot of crazy taxes out here, like a lumber tax (15 cents for every piece of lumber you buy), a weight fee for any pickup truck that's registered here, and a fee just to register your guns. Besides all that, the weather is great, the people are very friendly, and being able to go to the beach every evening after work is priceless. I don't expect we will be able to afford a house out here, but I am hoping to save up enough money to move somewhere else more reasonable. For now though, this is where we want to live and we are young so we might as well do it now.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:54 am to ZacAttack
SLO is beautiful, close to Big Sur, but a little far from the big cities. If you like the outdoors, CA has some spectacular options. Yosemite, Redwood NP, Tahoe, Big Sur, Muir Woods, etc etc.
The weather in CA is great, people nice, food and beer/wine awesome. Taxes are high, as is the cost of living. Real estate prices are nuts.
It does get amusing to see the incessant complaints abt CA by all these people who have never even been there, just based on their perception of the state as a whole. I would move out there and give it a try.
The weather in CA is great, people nice, food and beer/wine awesome. Taxes are high, as is the cost of living. Real estate prices are nuts.
It does get amusing to see the incessant complaints abt CA by all these people who have never even been there, just based on their perception of the state as a whole. I would move out there and give it a try.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 4:32 pm to Mung
SLO is awesome, California in General is expensive, but it is a pretty good place to live
Posted on 5/30/14 at 4:33 pm to ClydeFrog
my company is based in cali and all the employees love the weather and scenery but hate everything else
traffic
10% state income tax
high as shite property taxes
housing market is nuts
have fun
traffic
10% state income tax
high as shite property taxes
housing market is nuts
have fun
Posted on 5/30/14 at 4:39 pm to ZacAttack
I had an internship out there in Southern California 2011-2012 that was supposed to last for a year but I bailed out after 5 months
It sucked total donkey dick and not only did I want to get the hell out but I never want to return, not even for a vacation
Internship started at 7:30am but I had to leave my housing at 5:30am because it was about 1.5-2 hours of traffic each morning, same with going back, traffic
Everything is more expensive... gas groceries food you name it. And they seemed to tack on fees for everything, if you want to use a debit or credit card there is a fee. Cost of living ridiculous. 1 bedroom 750 sq feet apartment will run you $1500, I had a 1 bedroom 750 in Texas for $700 and 1 bedroom 900 sq feet here in Iowa for $630, and both are nicer than the overpriced dump I stayed in in California
Weather sucks. Personally I like seasons and thunderstorms and snow because it mixes things up. In California its pretty much the same weather every day and it gets boring
Mexicans... EVERYWHERE. Whites are a minority for sure. Lots of people do not speak english, mexican families all over the place and their dozen kids. I sliced my achilles in half had to wait in an ER for 2 hours gushing blood and dealing with a ER waiting room jam packed full of hispanics that spoke no English who were there because they had a cold, all while their kids ran around causing ruckus.
The people who live there are pretty arrogant too. I didn't get along with a lot of the people at my internship. Nose stuck in the air types of people.
I bolted as soon as I could and didn't look back. To hell with the internship.
It sucked total donkey dick and not only did I want to get the hell out but I never want to return, not even for a vacation
Internship started at 7:30am but I had to leave my housing at 5:30am because it was about 1.5-2 hours of traffic each morning, same with going back, traffic
Everything is more expensive... gas groceries food you name it. And they seemed to tack on fees for everything, if you want to use a debit or credit card there is a fee. Cost of living ridiculous. 1 bedroom 750 sq feet apartment will run you $1500, I had a 1 bedroom 750 in Texas for $700 and 1 bedroom 900 sq feet here in Iowa for $630, and both are nicer than the overpriced dump I stayed in in California
Weather sucks. Personally I like seasons and thunderstorms and snow because it mixes things up. In California its pretty much the same weather every day and it gets boring
Mexicans... EVERYWHERE. Whites are a minority for sure. Lots of people do not speak english, mexican families all over the place and their dozen kids. I sliced my achilles in half had to wait in an ER for 2 hours gushing blood and dealing with a ER waiting room jam packed full of hispanics that spoke no English who were there because they had a cold, all while their kids ran around causing ruckus.
The people who live there are pretty arrogant too. I didn't get along with a lot of the people at my internship. Nose stuck in the air types of people.
I bolted as soon as I could and didn't look back. To hell with the internship.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 5:06 pm to ZacAttack
As long as you like the beach mountains and outdoors stuff in general you will love it. Most the people that dislike it do so because they can't handle being in a place where there are liberals and where racism isn't accepted in the culture. LA kind of sucks, but where you will be is great
Posted on 5/30/14 at 5:09 pm to goldennugget
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I had an internship out there in Southern California 2011-2012 that was supposed to last for a year but I bailed out after 5 months
Sounds like you're more of a quitter than anything else. No place is miserable enough where you would absolutely have to leave five months in. You have barely scratched the surface of a city in only five months.
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Internship started at 7:30am but I had to leave my housing at 5:30am because it was about 1.5-2 hours of traffic each morning, same with going back, traffic
Don't know where you lived but this sounds like a mistake on your part. I live in LA and it takes me 15 minutes to get to and from work.
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if you want to use a debit or credit card there is a fee.
Not true at all.
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1 bedroom 750 sq feet apartment will run you $1500,
Again don't know where you lived but you got screwed. Especially if you weren't exaggerating about your commute to work which would place you in the cheaper suburbs. My house is $1700 a month and I'm in LA. That's two bedrooms and 1800 square feet.
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Weather sucks. In California its pretty much the same weather every day and it gets boring
Okay, yeah you are either trolling or a miserable person.
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Mexicans... EVERYWHERE. Whites are a minority for sure.
And racist too. You said you lived in Texas. There are plenty there also.
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The people who live there are pretty arrogant too. I didn't get along with a lot of the people at my internship.
Hmmm... I wonder why?
Posted on 5/30/14 at 5:25 pm to DallasTiger11
I love quite a bit about California. San Diego, Orange County, the central coast, Monterrey, certain parts of San Francisco, most of the bay area, Napa/Sonoma...love all of it. I was really blown away by how much I liked Orange County. I expected to completely hate it and ended up really liking it. San Diego and Monterrey are incredible.
Los Angeles, though, sucks donkey balls. If you took Los Angeles out of California, I don't know if I could find fault in the state.
Los Angeles, though, sucks donkey balls. If you took Los Angeles out of California, I don't know if I could find fault in the state.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 5:34 pm to AbuTheMonkey
Big cities really frick things up, I loved pennsylvania except for Philly. Sounds like mostly positive stuff for California and I really like SLO. Still got some thinking to do, thanks for the responses.
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