I didn't say that there was anything wrong with the scenery. For the most part it was quite nice. Great temps, pretty girls, etc., etc.. And, most of the people that I met there were very pleasant. It's the crazy left wing politics that spoils the place! Everytime you turn around, another meathead politician has to pass some restriction or pass a new rule that is totally unnecessary. Get rid of all the politicians and reduce the population by about one half and the west coast would be a decent place to live. Meanwhile, I'm perfectly happy with my little town that has no traffic jams, is only 3-4 hours away from PC (that's Panama City, FL for you left coasters), about the same from Savannah, GA and Orlando, FL. We have some great family owned restaurants that dish up some of the finest barbeque you ever tasted along with a variety of Hispanic, Chinese and others. We have nice mild winters and springtime. Summers and fall are warmer and wetter, but not so bad to keep the farmers from growing 3 crops a year. Great fresh peaches, tomatoes, watermelon, Vidalia Onions, etc. Houses are on 2-5 acre lots instead of 1/8th or 1/4 acre and a very nice, well built home can be bought for reasonable money. The only real negative I can think of is that it takes too long to get parts from PelicanParts! Anyway, since I am obviously happy here and you are happy there, what's the problem? Looks like the good Lord put us right where we were supposed to be! The next time you have to get your 911 to pass an emissions inspection, just remember that is something I don't have to deal with! Sometimes it pays to be a country boy.
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Originally Posted by rcooled
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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