HUGE uprise of CA natives here in Indiana (Los Angeles, Long Beach: sales, foreclosures)

[Quatermass]

Originally Posted by majoun

I wonder how his Latina wife is being treated in rural Indiana.

I'm disappointed in you, majoun. I thought you were better than this. Oh well.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Quatermass

I'm disappointed in you, majoun. I thought you were better than this. Oh well.

Well, I do wonder, considering how many people badmouth rural Indiana, including people from there. It did have the largest KKK of any northern state back in the day.

[Quatermass]

Originally Posted by majoun

Well, I do wonder, considering how many people badmouth rural Indiana, including people from there. It did have the largest KKK of any northern state back in the day.

Thanks, next time I'm there I'll look up the family I still have living there and find out if they're closet Klansmen.

[robertjohnson]

Originally Posted by majoun

Well, I do wonder, considering how many people badmouth rural Indiana, including people from there. It did have the largest KKK of any northern state back in the day.

Zip up. Your democrat is showing.
This is part of the reason I'm leaving California.
The smug and superior moralists.

Wasn't California one of the few states to put
helpless minorities into concntration camps?

[graciously]

don't know but guess some people might be tired of leaving in california maybe partly cause they lived here all there life.

[Happy Cells]

I personally encourage all Californians to STAY in CALIFORNIA.....You won't like Indiana or the Midwest. It's white picket fence...white bread and WHITE....Conservative, hick, bubba-ville.
If you don't dig football, NASCAR and "traditional values"...you'll have a hard time in Indiana, or any other Midwestern state. If you have to leave CA go to another liberal / progressive state....

...you won't like Indiana.....


...and if you have progressive ideals....and you live in one of the "red states".....seriously consider moving to California....I would encourage everyone who is open and tolerant of alternative lifestyles to move to California.....

...best of all....the weather is much MUCH better.....MILD winters.....and easy summers.... The Midwest in the winter can be frigid cold....buried in snow....and in the summer the HUMIDITY.....and the HEAT....Well...let's just say....90'F and 90% HUMIDITY....

....think about it....do you REALLY want to live in THAT?.......

[jc76]

Originally Posted by Quatermass

You know, people like you are the reason California's reputation is getting worse all the time. The attitude will be even less warranted, and more obnoxious, when the federal bailout of this insolvent state comes and people from Indiana and Iowa are paying to subsidize our asses. It amuses me to no end to see the shocked and threatened Californian ego react whenever it encounters people who've sampled the state and decided they don't need it.

All this talk about Indiana has me dreaming too.... of small towns, open fields, and quieter life. (Things I can't find anywhere in the vast, ugly swath of concrete that makes up the L.A. metro area.) One side of my family comes from Indiana. I've been there a few times, and it is beautiful. The endless fields, the leaves in autumn.... If money weren't an issue, I could see myself living in a tiny, charming place like Greentown, IN. I have a soft spot for Kokomo, too; it's seen better days, but then so has southern California.

To the OP: The reason I asked your age is that most younger people don't appreciate things like this. Posts from twentysomethings with stars in their eyes about living in "Cali" are a dime-a-dozen on City-Data; being where the action is, where the parties and people are, are all that's important. When the check comes, however, the price is very high, in many ways, and for many, the older one gets, the less appealing the California "lifestyle" -- at least, the one America's been sold for all these decades; and listen to David Aguilar when he tells you the reality of life in CA is not that bright and shiny -- becomes, and the better places like the Midwest start to look. I have an aunt who recently left southern CA after sixty years for Gulf Shores, Alabama. She was fed up with the strain of living here and she loves it over there.

By all means, experience California if you're dead-set on it and can possibly afford it; there is much wonder and beauty here. But there are many Californians who could stand to broaden their horizons a little, and who might find the trail of wonder and beauty bursts through the borders of the state and finds its way into every corner of this vast country.... to places like rural Indiana.

I understand where your coming from. I am 32 btw. It has been my dream since i was a kid to live in California and all I have got so far is a handful of visits, some extended to a few weeks. I love it out there but I dont know many people there so it's hard to try to move there. My main complaint is our midwest weather. It's June 3rd and it's been raining for over a week. The last 7 months it was cold and gloomy and wet. It seems we never get to go outside and when the sun comes out the humidity skyrockets and the mosquitos attack like savages. I just hate it here because eveything you try to do gets foiled by weather. Thats why I "California Dream" so much, of a life where I can step outside and be comfortable.

[jc76]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

I'll move ANYWHERE in the U.S. if it can be guaranteed that illegal aliens will never invade the area. There are a lot of places that appeal more to me now than CA -- they're called red states.

Our area WAS invaded...but with the factory jobs leaving the illegals are too

[jc76]

Originally Posted by majoun

That's weird, because studies have shown the Midwest is the only region of the US that is still sending more of its people to California than it is recieving Californians.

I have a feeling many of those "Californians" are originally Indianans who moved out west.

What? Indiana is not "sending" any of it's citizens to California. I don't know where you got that. If you know something I don't please do tell, I would love to jump on the train that's heading that way.

The bank manager at my bank is from the Bay Area. He moved here a few years ago due to COL in CA. He was born and raised there.
A 40 something guy in my neighborhood is from Reseda, born and raised in OC, moved him and his family here for a "better life for the kids" yeah some better life stuck inside all year.
When I was at the Unemployment office Tuesday for more interviews there was a lady in her 30's or so from Los Angeles. She said after spending her whole life there she was due for a change...so she crawled into our humble abyss and was never seen again! She got that change she wanted, bye bye sunshine.

Not to mention I've seen a decent amount of cars with CA plates.

[jc76]

Originally Posted by Happy Cells

I personally encourage all Californians to STAY in CALIFORNIA.....You won't like Indiana or the Midwest. It's white picket fence...white bread and WHITE....Conservative, hick, bubba-ville.
If you don't dig football, NASCAR and "traditional values"...you'll have a hard time in Indiana, or any other Midwestern state. If you have to leave CA go to another liberal / progressive state....

...you won't like Indiana.....


...and if you have progressive ideals....and you live in one of the "red states".....seriously consider moving to California....I would encourage everyone who is open and tolerant of alternative lifestyles to move to California.....

...best of all....the weather is much MUCH better.....MILD winters.....and easy summers.... The Midwest in the winter can be frigid cold....buried in snow....and in the summer the HUMIDITY.....and the HEAT....Well...let's just say....90'F and 90% HUMIDITY....

....think about it....do you REALLY want to live in THAT?.......

BINGO! We have a winner! I live in it so I can agree that you are pretty dead-on as to how it is here in the rust belt. Good accurate post.