How many actual California "natives" here... and where's everyone else from? (Los Angeles: insurance, gated)

[Fontucky]

Yeah, good thing nobody ever moves here from other places.

[Fontucky]

I was accepted in Spokane. I didn't stick around N. Idaho long enough to be accepted. Didn't want to be accepted there.

[Curmudgeon]

Actually, people in many states accept Califoreigners quite nicely as long as they don't look doiwn their sunburned noses at them and the local culture and don't whine about what CA has that their new state doesn't.

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Actually, people in many states accept Califoreigners quite nicely as long as they don't look doiwn their sunburned noses at them and the local culture

Which is why you'll never see me in the Bible Belt. No need to experience that again.

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

and don't whine about what CA has that their new state doesn't.

You mean like transplants from NYC do when they move here?

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

Which is why you'll never see me in the Bible Belt. No need to experience that again.

Yeah! Kinda figured that one out awhile ago.

Originally Posted by Fontucky

You mean like transplants from NYC do when they move here?

Precisely! Shame on them.

[smpliving]

Originally Posted by mateo45

Occasionally you'll hear folks mention that they're a ''native'', or have deep ''roots'' here (sometimes as though their opinion carries a bit more 'weight' re: CA issues... lol)! I believe the percentage of folks actually born in CA is currently a little over 50%.

So, how many here are native-born, and if not, where are y'all from?

Born in Burlingame CA, and raised in Thousand Oaks CA. My mother, age 81, immigrated to CA from Switzerland 59 years ago and still lives in Thousand Oaks. Father moved from South Dakota to San Mateo, CA in the late 1940s.

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Yeah! Kinda figured that one out awhile ago.

I do go on about that, don't I?

[Senno]

Senno is knowin that Idahoans and Missourans ain't all that welcoming to Californians that move to those places. I have family in both states. Some people will spite ya just for your license plate. Some will like ya, though. Some just judge ya right off and never change their minds.

[DewDropInn]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

I still recall that beach party I attended one warm December evening back in '77 or '78. There we were dressed in almost nothing, while back in the Northeast people were dying trying to get home from work because of a massive Nor'easter blizzard.

I remember that storm. The place I worked at then (pretty sure it would be '78) hired a guy from Buffalo that Spring. He'd spend two nights sleeping on his desk, said, "Never again" and left for So Cal. A week after he was hired we took him out on the company boat for a trip to Catalina for a working lunch. Dude thought he'd reached Nirvana.

[SoNorCal]

Born in China, grew up in Thousand Oaks, living in the Bay Area.