Want to move back to California

[leonard]

Originally Posted by seain dublin

TN is a nice state. It beats the heck out of Florida...LOL I understand what your saying there are other places besides CA. But I have not found one state that has it all beaches, mountains, snow....all within a couple of hours of each other.

CA has issues for sure. But I have to say when it comes to things like maintaining highways and road safey it is top notch.

I can't call what they have here in FL freeways, and you better know where your going because the road signs don't tell you. No advance notice, a lane turns into an off ramp, no notice.....unreal.

There is a reason they call it Flori-duh....LOL... and the most reckless drivers I have ever seen. I used to enjoy driving....not here... I actually limit my trips when I can because of the drivers here.

The lack of street signs here in TN just makes it interesting. If I make a wrong turn I just see more of the State. Usually finding another beautiful spot.

While CA has it "all" some of that "all" is no longer desirable. However it is also one of the sad things of life that you cannot go back.

Old friends have moved, gotten new friends who take their time, new activities, etc. Moving back generally does not take you "back" to what you longed for while gone.

As to Florida, well I am going to sell my last piece of property there when the market improves.

[seain dublin]

Originally Posted by leonard

The lack of street signs here in TN just makes it interesting. If I make a wrong turn I just see more of the State. Usually finding another beautiful spot.

While CA has it "all" some of that "all" is no longer desirable. However it is also one of the sad things of life that you cannot go back.

Old friends have moved, gotten new friends who take their time, new activities, etc. Moving back generally does not take you "back" to what you longed for while gone.

As to Florida, well I am going to sell my last piece of property there when the market improves.

When I mean road signs I mean in cities like Tampa, not country roads and finding more scenery....LOL.

The highways here are poorly marked, if you don't know an area or the highways( can't really call them freeways) you're screwed. Even if you plan and get directions off the Internet, it doesn't help when a highway isn't well marked.

In Southern CA even a moron would have a hard time due to the many well placed signs well advance. Going from say downtown to LA to the airport for example.

In Florida a sign saying 275 north is placed at the intersection you need to turn at, no signs in advance telling you in advance, unless you know an area it is useless. Directions here are poorly done, the worst I have ever seen anywhere.

It goes with the mentality here, a day late and a dollar short seems to be the state motto.

[leonard]

Originally Posted by seain dublin

When I mean road signs I mean in cities like Tampa, not country roads and finding more scenery....LOL.

Hi,

I am not just referring to the country. Road signage in TN in the cities is poor too.

[psalmi82]

Sinaloa,
This might sound a bit off your living means, but if you want a new home and for a really cheap price try looking into Salton City. I am a teacher here and I live here... the population is about 1,500... The closest town is about 4o minutes away, but schools are calm, and there are no gangbangers here... It is very quiet and people are modest... some new homes go at about $50,000... and the lots are about a quarter of an acre... I got my house for about 7o,ooo and pay 610 a month including insurance, taxes and all that goes with buying a property
the down fall is that they claim the Salton Sea is contaminated, but there are no harmul effects in living by it... some people eat the fish...
San Diego is about 2 hours away from here... check it out... hopes this helps.

[stevdrag]

I myself am home sick for California. I left Sonoma (the Peter Pan of towns in NorCal, where nothing ever changes, and hills forever have a golden hue) CA for greener pastures to Minnesota about a year ago, and hate it everyday I'm here in this frozen wasteland of boredom and midwestern values. HOW CAN ANYONE LIVE HERE!??!?
I heard alot of my friends picked up and left sonoma too, however...it was almost a poetic metaphor of the end of my childhood (I'm 19 now) I'm forever a Californian. I can't remove it from my blood, its in it. born and raised in Northern California, I spent 18 years of my life there. and then to one day pick it all up and move to someplace as foreign as Minnesota...it's still hard to adjust.


But maybe it's time to move on...in the words of Gertrude Stein, a famous poet from Oakland Clalifornia in my native Bay Area: "There is no 'there' there".