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Originally Posted by fred cook
Kalifornia...I've been there a couple of times, once in the military, the other as a visitor. Didn't see a thing that would bring me back!
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You obviously didn't look very hard.
From one of my posts in a previous thread...
As far as places to live go, I'd have to rate California's Monterey Bay Area (and Santa Cruz in particular) as a 9 1/2 outa 10. The climate is near perfect...not too hot in summer, not too cool in winter. It's never humid, there are no mosquitoes and hardly a drop of rain falls between May & October. The beach is a 10 minute bike ride away and there's a world-class surf break on the west side of town (Jack O'Neil, inventor of the wetsuit, lives here and the Beach Boys mention it in the lyrics of 'Surfin' USA'). San Francisco is less than 2 hours north on the Pacific Coast Highway and Monterey (think Laguna Seca Raceway and Pebble Beach Concours) is only 45 min. to the south. Winter skiing and summer boating at Lake Tahoe is about a 4-hour drive, as is Yosemite Natn'l Park. The Napa Valley wine country is less than 3 hours north. There's a small-craft harbor and a University of CA campus in town and plenty of well-paying jobs just over the hill in Silicon Valley. There's a vibrant music & arts scene as well, with national touring acts stopping to play one of the several small clubs in town between gigs in SF & LA. The Golden State Warriors have a development league team that plays here and the Redwood forests in the hills above town are great for hiking, fishing, mountain biking and camping.
Your "Deep South" doesn't even come close!
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