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Old 09-21-2008, 12:12 PM
 
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The situation you describe is SoCal becoming a two class society. You'll either have big bucks and live in a safe area with neighbors that speak English or you'll live in a slum with the illegals and spend your weekend painting over the graffiti on the side of your house.. Funny, the rest of the country's major cities manage to have safe, affordable, clean, neighborhoods with decent schools that aren't 50+ miles from job centers. I guess SoCal is special and so much better, huh?
What other cities have you actually lived in? Because I hate to break the news but ... they've got two class society problems there also.

You don't think people do 50+ mile commutes to NYC for example? Wages in Florida don't even begin to cover the cost of living there because of wealthy retirees driving up the expense. The list goes on and on.

I'm guessing you haven't lived in too many other places because, if you had, you wouldn't think the rest of the country is somehow utopia.
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Old 09-21-2008, 12:32 PM
 
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Oh, NYC is such a shining example of the rest of the country. I suppose next you'll tell me that traffic everywhere is just as bad as LA's and that every city's sprawl is just as bad.

And its no surprise that a state overrun with retirees or a college or resort town would have skewed economics. Well I'm not moving to Florida or a college town.

I've never lived outside of California but I have plenty of friends and family scattered throughout the country who are perfectly content where they are and wonder why I'm still here. I even know people who moved to SoCal from elsewhere and moved back. If California was so great and the rest of the country such a s**thole they'd still be here. You're just so in love with this state that you can't imagine anyone being remotely happy anywhere else.
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Old 09-21-2008, 12:45 PM
 
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I've never lived outside of California but I have plenty of friends and family scattered throughout the country who are perfectly content where they are and wonder why I'm still here. I even know people who moved to SoCal from elsewhere and moved back. If California was so great and the rest of the country such a s**thole they'd still be here. You're just so in love with this state that you can't imagine anyone being remotely happy anywhere else.
It's really difficult having any meaningful conversation here because apparently you take everything to extremes. I didn't say the rest of the country was a ****hole, as you put it.

I just said it wasn't utopia.

Anyway ... I hope you can get out of here someday and I also hope that it will make you happy since you seem to be so miserable alot of the time.
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