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California Is Great !
I am living in LA for a few months for work and I have to say it is great. I used to come here for work a lot and those trips were always the same and kind of boring. Most of the time it was with fellow New Yorkers who would ***** about LA, and whine about how much better NY was.
Its just not true I have been living here in a rented house for a month and in spite of the rain it has been great. People here are far more friendly, approachable and generally much more polite, the weather is better and I see more Porsches in one day than I do in a month in NYC. The 2 bedroom house with garden and garage plus off street parking that I'm staying in costs the same as our 600sq ft 'loft' in a grimy but supposedly hip NYC neighborhood, there are great restaurants here, Real Food Daily & AOC among many others good cinemas, and lots of quality art MOCA and the Getty, and I don't think if I left the Porsche on a meter it would get keyed or kicked. I'm seriously trying to figure out how I can get the lady to put away her NYC prejudice pack up the apt and move out here.
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02-06-2010, 11:05 PM
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My entire family is from the New York area, but my dad moved to CA after he graduated from college in about '60. He never left and my sister and I are natives. I've spent quite a bit of time in the NYC area with the rest of my family, but have always been happy to get home to good old California - even with all of its problems.
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Love to visit LA, could never live there. I go there for work every few mos. and I honestly think I've never run into a mean person there. I have spent enough time in NYC to never need to go back there as long as I live.
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please delete this thread!
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02-06-2010, 11:42 PM
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You shoulda bin in CA in the 60's dude...
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02-07-2010, 02:01 AM
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LA is great while it still stands.
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02-07-2010, 06:47 AM
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Born and raised in LA. There was no place on earth like SoCal in the late 60s! But it's nothing remotely like it was then. And to be honest....Nothing else is either. I finally escaped LA 10 years ago and I can't even stand to visit now. My wifes parents still live in San Pedro and we get there and within a couple of hours I'm ready to leave. (not because of the parents!)
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02-07-2010, 06:56 AM
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02-07-2010, 06:58 AM
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We tend to forget, with all its problems, that California is still pretty awesome. If I had to leave Colorado, that's where I'd go.
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02-07-2010, 07:37 AM
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Screw LA...glad I left....
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02-07-2010, 07:49 AM
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So Cal weather is great.
Mild winters in San Diego are reason enough for me to stay. Looks like a nice day for a Porsche drive before the Super Bowl. |
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02-07-2010, 07:55 AM
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Hows life in Nevada? Agree with you, not enough money in the world to get me to return to Kalifornia...
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02-07-2010, 08:01 AM
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The weather is what brought people to California back in the 30s and 40s. That hasn't changed. I loved living in SoCal when I was a teenager/20s, but I had nothing to compare it to. In my 30s and 40s, I made a lot of money that I may or may not have made if I were living somewhere else. Driving from San Pedro to Beverly Hills (23 miles) took around 1 1/2 hours each way, but I did it for the $.
Now that California is 20 billion+ in debt they have raised every tax imaginable. Car registration has tripled. Fines for any kind of moving violation are astronomical. They just passed a new Estate tax going in effect Jan 2011.....50%!!!! So my wifes parents that have worked and saved all their lives will have half of their assests taken by the state when they pass, so the state can hand out more welfare and food stamps. Gas prices, utilty costs, higher insurance, on and on. Is it worth the weather? Maybe for some, not me.
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02-07-2010, 08:14 AM
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always interested in a better place to run to, at the moment not much to run from.
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02-07-2010, 08:57 AM
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There are great (and terrible) things about LA. Just like NY. (Though SoCal is a far better place for a car guy.) You just have to decide what works best for you. Neither place will be perfect.
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Socal is daunting. every time, i have fun, it is because i am hanging with some locals..and they are showing me around. if i go with myself, and wife..i get lost and it just seems like a massive land of chain restaurants.
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02-07-2010, 09:17 AM
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LA is great, compared to NYC...
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02-07-2010, 09:34 AM
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LA in the 60's was having LIZ Taylor sitting in the car next to at the stop light on a Sunday afternoon on Wilsire Blvd.
Or even the early 90's having Julia Roberts walk past giving a second look.....
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02-07-2010, 09:47 AM
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It's best days are behind it.
I wish the circumstances surrounding my departure were a little better, but the longer time goes on the more I'm realizing that getting off that sinking ship might very well be one of the better things that's happened to me. Funny how that works sometimes. Visit? Sure. Live there again? Doubt it. Seriously doubt it. Like, "if pigs start flying" kinda' seriously doubting it. When it costs you literally $0.60 on the dollar to start up a practice there (which it does), it's not the right place to do business. Period. You guys enjoy it while you can. It ain't goin' anywhere but down. Stay as long as you can stand it I guess.
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