California & Texas (Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Solvang: college, living, dangerous)

[skitow]

Hi. I have never been in Texas. My girlfriend just got back from San Antonio. she said it was beautiful there. She said it was very humid. Maybe it's that time of year. I don't know. The people were very friendly. very inexpensive homes by CA standards. SA was having some kind of parade. Tons of people watching it. All in all, she was very impressed with what she saw. Just my girlfriends report. Stay safe,skitow.

[da jammer]

well whether you choose CA (I lived there for 40 years but recently moved far away to get closer to home) or TX (my son and his wife just moved to Tomball and I drove down to visit them last weekend) one thing is for certain. The driving style in both places are identical....it's like NASCAR baby!! Geez I almost forgot how constantly on the ball you have to be when driving around til I went to go visit the kid....had a great time in TX tho, nice people, great restaurants, big mosquitoes!

[skitow]

Hi. It's a small world. I too have lived in CA for 40 years. Iv'e been looking around for some place else to call home for quite a while. Years. I still have no clue. I have no family to move near. Retired, so no job to influence me. Who knows. Maybe we'll become neighbors? Stay safe,skitow.

[da jammer]

Originally Posted by skitow

Hi. It's a small world. I too have lived in CA for 40 years. Iv'e been looking around for some place else to call home for quite a while. Years. I still have no clue. I have no family to move near. Retired, so no job to influence me. Who knows. Maybe we'll become neighbors? Stay safe,skitow.

All depends on what you are looking for ....for the rest of your life. At 49 years old I decided to shift gears and look for another lifestyle and found the ideal place for us. Nope, neither google nor mapquest can find our house! 4000 sq ft, five bedrooms three baths and three acres of birds, squirrels, deer, rabbits, wild turkey, snakes and about a million trees that turn bright green in the spring and the colors will knock you over in the fall. We had a whopping eight inches of snow all winter and only went through one tank of (400 gallons) propane. We are three miles outta town that has everything we need and a great school system for the last remaining munchkin. The weirdest thing was getting used to the way people drive around here. Nobody wears out a set of brake pads trying to beat you to the stop sign, there is an unwritten "every other car rule" when turning into the school parking lot (the people going straight stop every other vehicle so those tuning left into the school.....can) and people waving as you drive by them. Did I mention that my nearest neighbor is about 100 yards away and there will never be a house built any closer? That comes in handy when working on one of the trucks and half a hand gets torn up while trying to loosen a bolt and the inevitable "sailor talk" starts to flow.

[loveCali]

Nice picture, da jammer! But..... brrrrrrr...... I'd rather be here, in the sun all year long. That, of course, depends on everybody's adaptation possibility. That's why I love sooooo much the sun, the Ocean, the sand and the rocks, the palm trees. And the vacation feeling that is everywhere here, everytime.

[KewGee]

Originally Posted by da jammer

All depends on what you are looking for ....for the rest of your life. At 49 years old I decided to shift gears and look for another lifestyle and found the ideal place for us. Nope, neither google nor mapquest can find our house! 4000 sq ft, five bedrooms three baths and three acres of birds, squirrels, deer, rabbits, wild turkey, snakes and about a million trees that turn bright green in the spring and the colors will knock you over in the fall. We had a whopping eight inches of snow all winter and only went through one tank of (400 gallons) propane. We are three miles outta town that has everything we need and a great school system for the last remaining munchkin. The weirdest thing was getting used to the way people drive around here. Nobody wears out a set of brake pads trying to beat you to the stop sign, there is an unwritten "every other car rule" when turning into the school parking lot (the people going straight stop every other vehicle so those tuning left into the school.....can) and people waving as you drive by them. Did I mention that my nearest neighbor is about 100 yards away and there will never be a house built any closer? That comes in handy when working on one of the trucks and half a hand gets torn up while trying to loosen a bolt and the inevitable "sailor talk" starts to flow.

Where are you? Wherever it is, it sounds like my kind of place.

[Roma]

It's California for me!

[da jammer]

Originally Posted by KewGee

Where are you? Wherever it is, it sounds like my kind of place.

Welp it ain't Cali or Texas so if I told ya I'd get off topic and the mods would come around with their paddles and whack me

[socketz]

Why would they whack you for tellling us where you live ? Give us a Google search phrase and we'll look it up.

[Twinkle Toes]

Originally Posted by socketz

Why would they whack you for tellling us where you live ? Give us a Google search phrase and we'll look it up.

Yeah, really!!! Don't keep us in suspense. Sounds like ... LOL