Can moving to CA be a good decision during these times? (to buy, construction)

[jc76]

Originally Posted by The_Rambler

I totally agree with you that a lot of people who are looking for a "better life" have unrealistic expectations about the west coast being a utopia where every day is a nonstop music video. I have lived in a few mid to larger sized cities around the south, and while they do offer more professional opportunities than the smaller towns, I've found them to be the same as the small towns in many respects. You get a lot of the same isolationist, regressive, low-aiming types of attitudes, just on a larger scale.

My primary impetus for wanting to live in or around Los Angeles is that I wish to further pursue my interests in the film industry, which is a field in which I've had a decent amount of success so far. You simply can't do the things I want to do in a small southern town.

Also, it would be nice to live in an area where the culture isn't steeped in NASCAR racing, deer hunting, rebel flags, country music, thinly veiled racist paranoia, giant pickup trucks, and beer swilling wife beating yee-haw good ol' boy redneckism.

I know it sounds like one big stereotype, but the sad fact of the matter is that it's true. Here in central AL if you take a drive down any street during the day, the large majority of what you'll see around you is dirty guys in lifted trucks with hunting and rebel flag stickers emblazoned on the back, people walking around in ripped up stained "Dale Jr: God Rest His Soul" t-shirts with the sleeves cut off, billboards and store front signs advertising beer and Skoal. There really is no other culture here. I'm sure California has its analogs, it's just that this particular southern lifestyle and culture is just not to my liking.

Right on Rambler and it's pretty much that way up here in Indiana as well. Except we have the wannabe's laced into the picture. The white trash meth dealers/users who have absolutely nothing else to do. The California natives can ramble on all they want about how "bad" life is there, but as the lady who moved to Kentucky from CA can tell you, you must live in these areas for awhile to really feel how bad and oppressed it really is.

Been to CA 7 times and every single time I have to come back to the midwest I feel down. It's just a very backwards vibe here that you have to live in to really realize how different it is in the west.

I would never suggest that merely living out west will change your life, you are still very responsible for your own success and failures, but it seems here in hickville it's pretty accepted to be a failure and live the low road.

[AllAboutEve]

Originally Posted by jc76

Right on Rambler and it's pretty much that way up here in Indiana as well. Except we have the wannabe's laced into the picture. The white trash meth dealers/users who have absolutely nothing else to do. The California natives can ramble on all they want about how "bad" life is there, but as the lady who moved to Kentucky from CA can tell you, you must live in these areas for awhile to really feel how bad and oppressed it really is.

Been to CA 7 times and every single time I have to come back to the midwest I feel down. It's just a very backwards vibe here that you have to live in to really realize how different it is in the west.

I would never suggest that merely living out west will change your life, you are still very responsible for your own success and failures, but it seems here in hickville it's pretty accepted to be a failure and live the low road.

I have to admit that I am afraid of even visiting the midwest for all the reasons you listed above. As much as I can complain about the cost of living, and the large population - I have to admit that the climate here is very tolerant compared to what I have seen and heard from other places. That being said, California is not the only progressed state. There is Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico - plus all the states on the East Coast, plus other moderate states such as Minnesota.

Have you considered these other places in addition to California?

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by LizCab44

I have to admit that I am afraid of even visiting the midwest for all the reasons you listed above. As much as I can complain about the cost of living, and the large population - I have to admit that the climate here is very tolerant compared to what I have seen and heard from other places. That being said, California is not the only progressed state. There is Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico - plus all the states on the East Coast, plus other moderate states such as Minnesota.

Have you considered these other places in addition to California?

Yeah man, visit the Midwest and get strung up and / or burned at the stake! It's like the Spanish Inquisition on steroids! I wouldn't dare go THERE! And don't even get me started about THE SOUTH!!! / sarc

[AllAboutEve]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

Yeah man, visit the Midwest and get strung up and / or burned at the stake! It's like the Spanish Inquisition on steroids! I wouldn't dare go THERE! And don't even get me started about THE SOUTH!!! / sarc

I can see you are familiar with those places. You should move there, the climate would suit you.

[Mollym313]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

Yeah man, visit the Midwest and get strung up and / or burned at the stake! It's like the Spanish Inquisition on steroids! I wouldn't dare go THERE! And don't even get me started about THE SOUTH!!! / sarc

They stopped burning people at the stake last year

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Mollym313

They stopped burning people at the stake last year

Yes, there were negative air quality ramifications, so the practice was stopped.

Also, firing squads have been outlawed to the potential for the executed to receive lead poisoning due to the lead in the bullets. In fact, the Taliban is suing the US Marines for the same reason.

[Mollym313]

Originally Posted by Charles

Yes, there were negative air quality ramifications, so the practice was stopped.

Also, firing squads have been outlawed to the potential for the executed to receive lead poisoning due to the lead in the bullets. In fact, the Taliban is suing the US Marines for the same reason.

Yes...and lets not forget "Going Green" was not intended for composting human charcoal remains and yard debris. Since I live here in the Bible Belt, the term "ashes to ashes and dust to dust" was thought to mean that burning at the stake and composting the pile would be returning things to God. People in the Midwest are so silly

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by LizCab44

I can see you are familiar with those places. You should move there, the climate would suit you.

Nah ... I'd rather take back California.

Get everyone wearing ten gallon hats again.

[AllAboutEve]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

Nah ... I'd rather take back California.

Get everyone wearing ten gallon hats again.

Let me know when you plan to take back California, because I refuse to wear a ten gallon hat .

[The_Rambler]

You guys are awesome This is a fun thread.