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Originally Posted by fintstone

Do you really think your reality is the same as most Californians?



...or even most Americans?

If all you have is ugliness in your heart, then you will only ever see ugliness. The pictures I’ve posted could be taken anywhere in the world. Maybe not a desert or beach, but the bright side of life. When I lived in Ohio, I had equally stunning scenery all around me because I looked for it. There was also homelessness and poverty there. When I lived in Pakistan, I saw poverty everywhere. I actually spent a fair amount of time photographing the poverty in a developing country, and it was quite depressing. This thread says “Why do people stay in California?” If you don’t want to see people answering that question, then why click on the thread? The pictures you are posting belong in a thread called “Reasons California is not all that perfect.” You remind me of the relative who has to $hit on everything during a family reunion. Did I suggest that my reality is the same as everyone’s? No I did not. If you are so disturbed by the poverty in California that you spend all your waking hours on the computer rambling on about it, maybe you should turn the computer off and go do something about it. Maybe go work in a food bank or homeless shelter, etc. I don’t know anything about you other than the fact that you viewed a bunch of beautiful pictures I posted and shat all over them trying to make the obvious point that California like any part of the planet has flaws. Are you so naive to think homelessness does not exist in every part of the world? Do you think drug addiction is absent in the Midwest or east coast?