Wanting to move to cali... help pls very lost (Los Angeles: DMV, living in)

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by vdy1985

Wow. I was only being half serious.

Add a few smilies next time. And if you were being half serious then you were half funny.

It's just that I've been getting so annoyed lately at all the "my state is better than your state" stuff, all the "my race is better than your race" stuff.

When you push buttons they are bound to be somebody's buttons you are pushing.

[Lovehound]

(replying to my comment that I don't need hyphens to describe myself)

Originally Posted by nmnita

boy are you right!!! I would like to think we are all Americans regardless of our ancestry..

I don't even think of myself as a Californian, although I'm a native. Presently I'm here on C-D trying to help people who think they might want to relocate to California. I can't see that more people is going to be anything but a liability, but the people I'm helping are Americans and they've got just as much right to live in California as I do.

Meanwhile I've had enough and I want to relocate to a quieter place in another state. I hope the people who I meet there don't stereotype me as "just another Californian, moving here and ruining it for us natives."

Actually I'm giving serious thought to not replying when I'm asked where I came from, or just saying "around." I'm an American. That should be good enough for them. It's good enough for me!

[Twinkle Toes]

It's a shame you can't tell people where you are from without getting the cold shoulder. I experienced this in Texas. When you want estimates on how much things are going to cost, once you tell them you came from California, the estimated price goes up. People are under the misconception that all Californians are rich. Probably because of all the stupid reality shows that come out of Hollywood depicting us as though we all live in mansions and drive Ferraris. I am happy to be back in CA. Would never leave again - except for a vacation.

[buckeyenative01]

I dunno, when I went back to Cincinnati and people found out I lived in California (I got carded a lot), I was treated like the world's most interesting person if only because I was living in the Golden State and had the ID to prove it. It was the strangest damn thing, really.

Keep in mind this was Cincinnati, though.

[vdy1985]

Originally Posted by buckeyenative01

I dunno, when I went back to Cincinnati and people found out I lived in California (I got carded a lot), I was treated like the world's most interesting person if only because I was living in the Golden State and had the ID to prove it. It was the strangest damn thing, really.

Keep in mind this was Cincinnati, though.

This effect happens in many places, except for neighboring states like nevada, arizona, oregon, washington.

[CA central coast]

Originally Posted by buckeyenative01

I dunno, when I went back to Cincinnati and people found out I lived in California (I got carded a lot), I was treated like the world's most interesting person if only because I was living in the Golden State and had the ID to prove it. It was the strangest damn thing, really.

Keep in mind this was Cincinnati, though.

You just echoed the same experiences I had when I visited Omaha. I almost felt like a celebrity. I think that's a Mid-West thing. That part of the country seems to be really intrigued by California.

[eureka1]

To the OP: Please DON'T move to Humboldt County. Up here, we value diversity.

[dreamfollower]

Just to take a slightly different approach to the original question and I am going to assume that this rephrasing of it is the real point.

What town(s) in SoCAL that have a palpable Hispanic influence is safe and wonderful on a middle-class income. Just because an area is heavily Hispanic does not automatically make it unsafe or not fine to live in. I would think the statistics would speak to that.

SoCAL is heavily Hispanic. Period. It is part of the landscape of the state. You have the choice to either adapt to it or not.

I think that ANY ethnicity becoming an overwhelming majority is not a good thing anywhere. And when I speak of ethnicity I am not speaking of "color". "Caucasian" is made up of many individual ethnicities and I would not like it if any one of those ethnicities was the overwhelming influence in any place I chose to live. Again, it is not about color, but about feeling as though you are living their culture because of the imbalance.

It is a great thing for many small areas throughout a state to be vibrant enclaves for individual cultures. However, when the majority of areas in half of a huge state become predominantly of one ethnicity, it is not a "racist" thing to say, "I do not like it because I feel I do not fit in." Who wants to live in a place where they feel they do not belong? No one.

[jaada]

Originally Posted by readinvin92

So I live in michigan and its time to move. I have lived here for 50 yrs, and am sick of it.. I will be moving with my family and there is 6 of us moving.. I want a nice city, not trying to be racist but dont want the city over crowded with hispanics. I was looking at Temecula, and thats all i found thats affordable.

I am looking to spend ~400k max and need ~3k sq. ft.

thanks, and im looking for any imput.

well anything south is largely hispanic -northern calif in the foothills not too many hispanic families there.

[FresnoFacts]

Originally Posted by Twinkle Toes

It's a shame you can't tell people where you are from without getting the cold shoulder. I experienced this in Texas. When you want estimates on how much things are going to cost, once you tell them you came from California, the estimated price goes up. People are under the misconception that all Californians are rich. Probably because of all the stupid reality shows that come out of Hollywood depicting us as though we all live in mansions and drive Ferraris. I am happy to be back in CA. Would never leave again - except for a vacation.

I have travelled extensively around the US for business for the last 20 years.

Its amazing how many times people in other states say to me, "you don't act like a Californian".

What's a Californian "supposed" to act like? Someone who runs around saying "gnarly, dude"?

California Grown, an agriculture marketing campaign, did a study about 3 years ago. It dispelled some of the California stereotypes.

They surveyed Californians in 5 cities: Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco. They found:

• 76% of surveyed California residents have never gone surfing
  • only 18 percent of the Los Angeles residents and 17 percent from Fresno had surfed
  • Only 36% of San Diego had tried it
• only 21% of us had ever soaked in a mud bath
• 47% statewide had actually milked a cow at least once
  • 37% of Los Angeles residents, 51% from San Diego, and 53% from Fresno and Sacramento had milked a cow

But it appears some things might be true:

• 70% of us have been to a winery
  • Only 55% of Los Angeles respondents had been to one
• 63% admitted to hugging a tree
• 71% admitted to using the word "awesome"
• 67% admit to calling someone "dude"

OK, I'll put down the wine glass and try to stop myself from ever saying "awesome" again.

Do Californians Really Surf and Call Each Other ``Dude?''; A Statewide ``California Grown'' Survey Puts Stereotypes to the Test