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Leland, what you and your wife decide is your business.

However, I just wanted to point out that 2-3 years of experience as an RN is going to be pretty much the same experience whether its in Ma(rmpit)nteca or the most beauteous place in this great country. Is the job of an RN and the hospital where she works going to be that much different from a hospital in Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle, Philly, Atlanta, or that famous garden spot, Manteca?

In my eyes, and it is zero of my business I realize, your wife's "comfort zone" is awfully small . . .

CA is a wonderful place. I moved here with nothing 30 y/o. Now I have a comfortable life. I don't like the taxes and spending and entitlement programs, but it's been very good to me. I'd like to stay when I "retire" in about 10 years, but the taxes don't allow for that. I have a wonderful 18 acres of property about 20 miles north of LA, adjacent to about 1,000 acres of wild lands. I have coyotes, mountain lions, possum, rabbits, snakes (ugh), bob cats and red tailed hawks. I'd post pics, but I'm traveling. I work in "Hollywood" actually Burbank, and while there are a lot of liberals, there are a lot of conservatives, more than you would think. CA is as a whole is a right of central state as a whole, but it's the libs in LA and SF who seem to dominate the polls.

Here is a pic of a tiny portion of my backyard.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1235873642.jpg

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Originally Posted by red-beard (Post 5370208)

What happened in the past year when they cut off the water to the California farms?

Lemoore NAS has recorded proof of what happens to outsiders who come to the central valley....Valley Fever. Yes come here and you too can have a fungis growing in your lungs. The percentage went way up when they cut water to the farms. It seems outsiders who weren't born here do not have a built up immunity to it.
From what I hear prisoners in Corcoran who are brought in from other parts of the state often times end up with it as well.

Sooo many CA haters on this bbs. Politics really get you down that much? You might wanna take up another hobby. Log off from PARF sometime. CA or nat'l politics never bothered me that much until I started spending most of my time on Pelican in PARF. I am a conservative living happily in the SF Bay Area. You can too, just be a little more open-minded.

I've lived in a lot of places in CA; Victorville, Adelanto, Apple Valley, Santa Monica, Palms, Inglewood, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village and Pacoima. Went to Santa Monica College and LA Valley then moved back to the SF Bay Area to finish my BS at the University of SF - talk about a beautiful college campus. There is beauty in CA, lots of it. Lots of ugliness too and very easy to find if that's all you look for.

Hmmm, Lee may not be the only one considering a move. My R.N. daughter has been offered a supervisory position in a private clinic between Dallas/Ft. Worth.

VERY good salary for an RN...Problem is it would mean moving away from her hubby's family in S. Dakota, the home they bought & like... But the money is tempting...a doubling of what she makes now. A tough choice for her to make.

Just posting it here to back up my earlier statement that RN's can and do find employment anywhere...

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Originally Posted by pwd72s (Post 5373047)

Just posting it here to back up my earlier statement that RN's can and do find employment anywhere...

Absolutely true. I have a friend who's an oncology nurse working for a large hospital in Walnut Creek, CA. She had put feelers out for employment in Kansas where her husband might get transferred. She said in less than a week, she received appointments for an interview with no less than 6 facilities. All without picking up the phone. How many occupations, in this economy, get that kind of response simply by circulating a resume?

I like Redondo Beach. I think that, for the money, it's a decent place to live in LA County.

For kicks, I went to Real Estate Listings, Homes for Sale and Rental Property Listings â€“ REALTOR.com® and searched for "redondo beach", "3+ bedooms","2+baths", and "2,000 + sq ft".

The cheapest house is in the entire city with these parameters is at 2510 Armour Lane and is listed at $729,999.

And therein lies the rub...

I would venture to say that most guys on this board wouldn't think that this house is a good value for the money. I am ambivalent to the "cost of entry" because I have been Kalifornicated.

My house is tax assessed at 889k. I am so disgusted by the tax burden out here that I have my wife pay the property taxes on our house and on our apartments because I can't bear to look at the bills. It makes me want to throw up.

For many people, P-O-P included, renting is a way of life if you decide to live in California. I am not built that way. I could never be a renter. So I pay.

But only for another 4 years and 5 months.

Here's a pic I took in Arizona earlier this year.

Somehow it seemed relevant to the discussion:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1274960434.jpg

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Originally Posted by Dottore (Post 5373203)

Here's a pic I took in Arizona earlier this year.

Somehow it seemed relevant to the discussion:

Two can play that game.

Here is a pic of Dot's backyard...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1274970995.jpg

I can't wait to have Dottore and Joe over for a BBQ at my place. Dottore, please, please help make this happen.

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Originally Posted by Rick Lee (Post 5373520)

I can't wait to have Dottore and Joe over for a BBQ at my place. Dottore, please, please help make this happen.

Please, please make it happen.

This could be a LOT of fun and remember, its a big desert out there and I have a bag of lime and several shovels in my garage! :)

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Originally Posted by silverwhaletail (Post 5371704)

and I'm still a cop, but now work for a city that is loaded $$$. The job is really not that much different, just much less daily contact with poor people.

So hard to get the stink of the poor out of your uniform, aint it?

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Originally Posted by nostatic (Post 5371722)

I live 5 blocks from Wilshire and Lincoln in Santa Monica. There is a park on the corner that has a fair number of homeless people at any given time. My son walks home from school without fear (though he is situationally aware - as should all kids be). I get asked for spare change once in awhile, but I just ignore it and walk on. I'm not constantly stepping over the detritus of society, fearing for my life at every turn. Is it perfect here? Far from it. Traffic can be mind numbing, but generally you can work around it. The key is being smart about where you live and work and getting to understand the flow of the city.

As Denis says, LA is HUGE. Most people cannot comprehend it when they fly into LAX. And if you can't really grok it from the sky, imagine trying to do it from the ground. It look me about 3 years to start to figure out the lay of the land when I moved here for grad school in '87. I forced myself into it by buying/selling music gear on Recycler. That took me all over LA, and I got to know and appreciate what this place is like.

As for regentrification, it has happened in a number of areas. Most recently Eagle Rock. Highland Park is in the middle of it as well. Chinatown is now largely artists, with most of the Chinese population out in the San Gabriel valley. There also are some very nice parts of East LA, and I've been down in parts of Crenshaw and Gardena that are perfectly safe. There certainly are some areas that are best avoided, but that is a reality for any metropolitan area. No free lunch. Small towns are nice and I understand why some people like them. But I don't think I could live in one. Everything is a compromise...

One would think that a big city dweller would understand that there is no such thing as perfectly safe.

It only takes one bum with a psychotic episode and a box cutter to take your boy away forever as he walks home alone and defenseless after school.

Want to see some youtube videos of Kalifornia bums going nuts and assaulting passersby?

Perfectly safe....

Check the crime statistics for your police district/division. Even "perfectly safe" city neighborhoods are typically rife with a wide variety of crime. Or are a matter of 5 minutes or less from neighborhoods that are.

Ask Occifer Whaletail.

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Originally Posted by cantdrv55 (Post 5373043)

Are they haters, or is Kalifornia a horribly run, money grubbing police state that has been exporting it's political stupidity to the rest of the US for decades?

I vote B.

Snipe, log off from PARF!

You 're the one that brought it up.

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Originally Posted by Rick Lee (Post 5373520)

I can't wait to have Dottore and Joe over for a BBQ at my place. Dottore, please, please help make this happen.

I'm working on it. The man–love will be strong.

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Originally Posted by Dottore (Post 5373633)

I'm working on it. The man–love will be strong.

Yep and since you are used to being bottom, it should go smoothly! :)

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Originally Posted by Joeaksa (Post 5373666)

Yep and since you are used to being bottom, it should go smoothly! :)

Be sure to invite the Lubemaster!

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Originally Posted by m21sniper (Post 5373573)

Want to see some youtube videos of Kalifornia bums going nuts and assaulting passersby?

Perfectly safe.....

No wonder you hunker down in your apartment with guns and the cold steel Katana...

Maybe you should go for a nice swim in the ocean...oh wait, you're afraid of that too :D

You could scare the crap out of yourself in a basement in Philly watching youtube videos all day. That's a whole 'nother world...