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Originally Posted by look 171

On a lighter note, why do others like to dump on CA (many that have not been here in / live here) while many of us CA residents say anything about other places? Is it because we just simple do not need to? This is not the perfect place, but it is home and its warm with almost no rain. For the millions who live here (me included) feel this is a fantastic place if not, they be living right next to you.

Because of crap like this below. Care to highlight the condescending parts? Hint - it's all of it. The assertion that those who dare criticize CA are a bunch of ignorant hicks that have never seen the world. With some there is a arrogance about their residence in CA that gets very old. BTW, even this ignorant unlearned Midwesterner has been to CA multiple times.

Originally Posted by speeder

Yes, that would be idiotic. And it's not what I said. Of course there is a "homeless problem", although it's not a problem for 99%+ of the people who live there.

I have a news flash for you guys: When you go to a big city, (or a big state), there is more of everything. Where would you want to live if you were homeless or a drifter in the first place...Cownutz Missouri or California? Where do you think would be warmer and have better panhandling? There are more people in L.A. county alone than in your state and the 5 states around it, most likely. So yeah, more food lines...

The difference between myself and some of you is that I am from the midwest and I've been just about everywhere in this country plus many more. I do not think that everyone in Kansas is a farmer, though that would not be a bad assumption to make about someone from a rural part of the state. Not bad either as a guess or in terms of being demeaning. Farmers are very rich these days if they grow corn. Certain members of my extended family farm, we are not the least bit embarrassed about it.

The only time I see a food line in CA. is when I drive downtown to skid row or to the church in Hollywood where I sometimes volunteer. My good friend runs the charity and it feeds about 100-150 people a day, 5 days a week. Not all of them are homeless, though. Some are just flat broke for whatever reason.

Some of you need to turn off the Fox News and actually get out in the world. It's large and interesting and it beats googling stupid images of people down on their luck in CA., (supposedly). The larger cities in your part of the world have major underclasses and look like one continuous loop of COPS, if you only watch schitty television.

The reality is that the wealth in the San Francisco area these days is staggering. And I'm not talking about the Larry Ellisons or Gordon Gettys, I'm talking about the sheer number of affluent and highly educated people. It would be very foreign to you.

Originally Posted by speeder

Whatever...I just returned from an expensive mini-ski vacation and I was thinking that I would not care if it cost double to live in CA. for everything, it would be worth it. Let me know when they put something like this in Kansas:

WOW, YOU WENT SKIING?! WE DON'T HAVE THAT IN KS! Of course I can just drive to CO (and have), but whatever. Let me know when they put something like this in CA.





That would be 4 br, 3 ba, 3613 sq ft, full unfinished basement, on a golf course in a nice neighborhood, for $250k.