Why Do You Stay in California? (Bradbury: living, move, retire)

[sav858]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

She's said every place she's lived outside of California sucks and hasn't ever found anything good to say about the other 49 states. All while putting California on a pedestal like its the freaking promised land or something. Its not much of a stretch to believe she thinks the other 49 states suck.

She never said anything about the other 49 states to begin with, just that she didn't like the places she's lived before. So why the hell would you make some absurd assumption that she is putting all other 49 states down? Just b/c someone prefers Ca that means they are putting it on a "pedestal"? YES it is a stretch to think all this BS from one simple sentence that doesn't even mention 1/2 the crap someone inferred it did.

Just b/c you hate CA doesn't mean everyone is going to share your malcontented view on it. You see what you want to see and infer b/c it makes it easier for you to hate on CA. Some of you aching to leave are some of the most miserable people and its pathetic.

[sonarrat]

Originally Posted by sheri257

This is a classic misreading of what I said.

I didn't say the other 49 states sucked ... I said I've lived in a lot of other places that sucked.

But I firmly believe that cheaper places are cheap because they are less desirable. Which is pretty obvious since the demand to live there isn't as high.

So why not NYC or downtown Boston, which can be even more expensive? You'd think the more you paid, the better it was..

[vfrpilot]

I didn't say the other 49 states sucked ... I said I've lived in a lot of other places that sucked.

I did read your comment as everywhere sucking outside of CA. I just figured you lived in a lot of other places, so you were simply saying everywhere else sucked. Sorry for the mistake. I still disagree with your statement. You can have your opinion and I can disagree. I also don't agree that an area will 'suck' if it's cheap. Does that mean less than a CA home? There are CA homes in outlying areas that are far less than CO homes in our area.

To each their own, there are a lot of nice places all over the country and some people just prefer Ca to others just like many prefer those other places to CA.

Exactly! I have no problem with Sheri saying how much she loves the area she resides in. The central coast is pretty special. I have problems when people generalize that somewhere else 'sucks'. I think people from other states do that to CA more than any other, not realizing that CA is hugely different from one end to the other.

[Charles]

We need to start a "49 State Bashing...Enough Already!" thread.

//www.city-data.com/forum/calif...h-already.html

(What the heck, tomorrow is Friday and the S&P is at 1997 levels.)

[CalGal953]

Originally Posted by sav858

It's home.

it's where some us are from, where we grew up, where our families our from, where our childhood friends are from, etc... It's just HOME. To some of us that is a hell of a lot more important than a giant home in Texas or Arizona.

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[Huckleberry3911948]

read the threads on CDF on winter & see

[LivingInExiles]

Because I love it here.

[OC Investor2]

Because my wife's family is all here & she'd be miserable moving away from them.

And I love her more then I hate it here.

[timelesschild]

Jobs.

I realize that jobs are tight in CA right now. However, they are tighter where we came from, and paid less. A LOT less.

The paradisical environment doesn't hurt much either. Honestly, there's a lot to like here.

[family first]

Two words, extended family! If they weren't here, my family would have hit the pavement years ago. The "golden state" is looking more like fools gold every year.