re: The Top Four Reasons California Is Unsustainable (Forbes magazine)

It's sad and pathetic all rolled up into one. Beautiful, dry, Mediterranean
weather, dramatic landscapes, huge mountains with feet of snow or oceans and desert.. It has every landscape in the country all in one state.. and they're destroying it and turning it into one giant socialist shithole. My family is in the process of trying to get me to move back (South Orange County specifically) and I want absolutely nothing to do with it.

My dad and his wife have done very well over the last decade with a Medical supply & distribution/logistics company and have even offered to help us pay for a home with a good school district, use their contacts to help me find a great job and even help us pay off what we still owe on my home in Knoxville so that we can rent it out in order to use it as an additional revenue stream. Extremely generous gestures..

and we still want nothing to do with moving back out there. I actually miss the desert and contemplate moving back out West from time to time, but unfortunately it will never be back to Southern California. That ship has sailed outside of the yearly vacations to be with family.