HUGE uprise of CA natives here in Indiana (Fresno, Santa Barbara: 2010, unemployment rate)

[David Aguilar]

Originally Posted by majoun

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

I think you might be surprised at just how non-prejudiced some non-diverse places can be. I currently live in one.


Aside from that, there are tons of misconceptions on this thread, and I've come to this conclusion:

California is Heaven.
California is Hell.
The rest of the country is quiet, peaceful and great.
The rest of the country is boring, ass-backwards and full of hicks.

It's settled now.


Again, good luck to the OP, I hope you find what you are looking for in CA. I hope you enjoy Fresno, it's a fine town.

[RobE]

Originally Posted by robertjohnson

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

No. That was done by an executive order from FDR and it covered the entire west coast (ironically, not Hawaii, though, because it would have ruined their economy) and, eventually, Peru (at basically our command) and British Columbia, too (why Canada signed on to this madness, I have no idea).

However, it's true that then state Attorney General Earl Warren (remember, he was a Republican) was indeed a big proponent of the internment idea. Warren would later be a popular multi-term governor before Eisenhower put him on the Supreme Court.

[Happy Cells]

California is still by far the best place to live....particularly if you want the free lifestyle....

Did I forget to mention the fantastic weather?.....

[City Boy]

Indiana? I don't think so.

[CA central coast]

Originally Posted by Happy Cells

California is still by far the best place to live....particularly if you want the free lifestyle....

Did I forget to mention the fantastic weather?.....

That's why I wouldn't leave until I retire. Getting up everyday and going to work in weather that sucks isn't appealing.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by user_id

Cars and motocross are popular throughout Southern California and to a lesser extend Northern California. The central coast? Hardly anybody lives there, that is a rather small part of Californians population. Yes, I'm sure grandma and grandpa in the central coast are not tricking out their cars or riding motorcycles.

If you think all coastal communities are like, what are essentially retirement communities, on the central coast than I suggest you have gotten around much. The coastal areas of Southern California and the Bay area are some of the most expensive and materialistic areas around.

There are plenty of dirt bikers on the Central Coast, but CA central coast may be into more of a granola enclave, of which there are plenty there as well.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by Soccersupporter

Don't believe anything you see posted here. CA has been sending more to other staes than it has been receiving for a few years now. The only growth in CA is the illegal influx. I have met hordes of people in TX from CA and many other states.

To be fair, you need to qualify that with native born. We have net influx of the foreign born. But that fact is also telling us something (something many are in denial about).

[jc76]

Originally Posted by CA central coast

That's why I wouldn't leave until I retire. Getting up everyday and going to work in weather that sucks isn't appealing.

LOL! I hear ya, from Nov-April you wake up and have to spend an extra hour de-icing your car, driving at snail speed due to ice as your fingers and toes go numb. Your car starts to rust after a few years and the interior get nasty from tracking in all the salt and slush. Our low this year was MINUS 21, with the wind chill factor it was MINUS 37, air that cold takes your breath away so would you really wanna retire and be "elderly" and have to deal with it? I would say nobody should ever have to be cursed with living in areas with 6+ months of sheer hell. That is another reason I wonder what is wrong with some of these CA natives moving here. Yeah cheap houses, everything else is the same price pretty much though.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Soccersupporter

Don't believe anything you see posted here. CA has been sending more to other staes than it has been receiving for a few years now.

In my post I said that the Midwest is the only region that's still sending more people to California than it's recieving people from California.

Every other region of the US is recieving more Californians than it's sending people to CA.

I have met hordes of people in TX from CA and many other states.

Texas has one of the healthier economies in the US right now. So does Washington State (a major destination for Californians).

If you think EVERY state is recieving more Californians than it's sending, how many Californians are going to not just Indiana but its next door neighbor Michigan? The Midwest is in horrible shape, California is in horrible shape (and will eventually stop recieving illegals, too,due to the economic mess, or at least they'll just pass through en route to somewhere else), but not all of the US is in equally horrible shape.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by jc76

...Sooooo, is there any state today that is similar to the California of the past?

Oregon?
.