Transplants who love California (San Bernardino, Montclair: living in, cost of, legally)

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by 92greenyj

Letting my daughter finish out her school year. Didn’t want to shift her to the other side of the country over halfway thru the school year. We have already purchased our new amazing huge home on 24 acres for an 1/8th of what a similar home and property would cost here in Kommiefornia. Moving trailer is booked, plans for the cross country drive and move are set, 2 weeks after my daughter finishes first grade we are putting this whole mess of a state firmly in the rear view mirror.

Sure California was fun when I first moved here in 2004. However it has gone steadily downhill every single year since. The current moron nazi wannabe in Sacramento has taken it from bad to worse and his abysmal handling of the China virus has made it all the worse. Never mind his EV demand that he doesn’t have the authority to even Implement, let alone his throwing taxpayer money at illegal border jumpers before US citizens. Gavin Newscum is a plague upon an already spiraling out of control state. You all can enjoy the fall. I’m getting my family the hell out of here and back to free America.

I hope you are happy when you move. My mother used to say "If you're not happy here, you won't be happy there"

[Finper]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

I hope you are happy when you move. My mother used to say "If you're not happy here, you won't be happy there"

I was miserable there. I’m very happy in Idaho so guess your mom was wrong

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by 92greenyj

It’s not all sunshine and rainbows and skiing and surfing in the same day kid. You want the postcard or the real story? Ya know that old saying, never judge a book by its cover. Well, don’t judge California on the bikinis and the beach. While it might look good on the surface, this state is rotten to the core underneath.

Actually, it is for some of us

You’re hilarious. Got here in 2004 eh? I arrived in the mid-1960s and so have known the state and its ups and downs 4x longer than you ... and I still love it.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Finper

I was miserable there. I’m very happy in Idaho so guess your mom was wrong

So why do you keep coming back to the California forum to kvetch? You never - ever - sound even slightly happy.

[stone26]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Actually, it is for some of us

You’re hilarious. Got here in 2004 eh? I arrived in the mid-1960s and so have known the state and its ups and downs 4x longer than you ... and I still love it.

I think if he lived here in the 1970s-1980s, he would understand WHY we have such strict smog rules. I grew up playing recess inside because of stage 2 smog alerts.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by stone26

I think if he lived here in the 1970s-1980s, he would understand WHY we have such strict smog rules. I grew up playing recess inside because of stage 2 smog alerts.

Stage 3 for us! (San Gabriel Valley.) Hard to believe the smog was as bad as it was, even into the early 1980s.

"Eye-searing, throat-burning smog smothered the Los Angeles area in a bourbon-colored blanket," The Times' front page said Sept. 14, 1979, as Obama was starting his first year at Occidental.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...htmlstory.html

[stone26]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Stage 3 for us! (San Gabriel Valley.) Hard to believe the smog was as bad as it was, even into the early 1980s.

"Eye-searing, throat-burning smog smothered the Los Angeles area in a bourbon-colored blanket," The Times' front page said Sept. 14, 1979, as Obama was starting his first year at Occidental.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...htmlstory.html

Thats where I grew up! El Monte/Baldwin Park/La Puente. I couldn’t remember what stage it was.

[HappyinCali]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

So why do you keep coming back to the California forum to kvetch? You never - ever - sound even slightly happy.

I agree with that. How happy can you be if a big part of your time is spent posting negative things. I have never met a happy person who is obsessed with negative thoughts.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by stone26

Thats where I grew up! El Monte/Baldwin Park/La Puente. I couldn’t remember what stage it was.

I think I'm older than you are. We were pulled off the playground for third stage smog alerts in the 1960s. The smog problem in southern California has definitely improved with each decade.

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

I think I'm older than you are. We were pulled off the playground for third stage smog alerts in the 1960s. The smog problem in southern California has definitely improved with each decade.

I share in the general sentiment that California is an overtaxed and overregulated state. I also share the sentiment that, all too often, we allow drug addicts, the homeless, and those who come here illegally to do as they please while they seem to have no problem enforcing stuff on the working and taxpaying populace.

That said, something had to be done about the smog. Perhaps not every regulation was needed, but because of the unique issues presented by our geography and climate, they simply had to be stricter than in the rest of the U.S. where smog was / is less of a problem.