I hear you and you're not alone in your thoughts, but it's worked out well for us. I've been in CA since 1958, and my wife is a 3rd gen Cali girl. We bought our first home in 1976, which got us in the game. Along with high CA prices comes high salaries, at least for the careers she and I had. Traffic is not a problem unless you live in the LA, the SF Bay Area, or Sac. Where we live we have views like this, just 5 miles from our house. I kind of like it.You will have to pardon me for my apparent prejudice but what is it that attracts people to move to and/or live in CA? Fires, crazy government, high real estate and rental prices, high taxes, clogged roads, everything causes cancer, etc etc. Why not just move over to AZ or NM, TX or another state?
Weather, jobs, cultural diversity and food.You will have to pardon me for my apparent prejudice but what is it that attracts people to move to and/or live in CA? Fires, crazy government, high real estate and rental prices, high taxes, clogged roads, everything causes cancer, etc etc. Why not just move over to AZ or NM, TX or another state?
You will have to pardon me for my apparent prejudice but what is it that attracts people to move to and/or live in CA? Fires, crazy government, high real estate and rental prices, high taxes, clogged roads, everything causes cancer, etc etc. Why not just move over to AZ or NM, TX or another state?
I've lived in CA since 1958. There's San Francisco, and there's the rest of the state. Also, there's San Francisco "back then", and there's San Francisco "now". My wife and I last visited "The City" for an overnight stay 15 years ago. BTW, NEVER call it "Frisco", you'll get thrown out of bars. I worked in The City in an office on the 32nd floor of Embarcadero #4 when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake hit. Scared to heck out of us, and that is a huge understatement. All of us thought we were going to die. To top it off, we lived in Los Gatos, the epicenter. Our house got trashed. It took a year to fix it.San Fransisco has a lot of tech jobs there. It's mainly young people who move there to work for big tech companies for a few years.
I visited it last year. I didn't like it. I can understand living there a few years, but I do not see the benefit of settling down there now.
Opportunity for high paying modern tech jobs.You will have to pardon me for my apparent prejudice but what is it that attracts people to move to and/or live in CA? Fires, crazy government, high real estate and rental prices, high taxes, clogged roads, everything causes cancer, etc etc. Why not just move over to AZ or NM, TX or another state?
The smoke is bad. Everyone's eyes ache. Everyone has a nagging cough.
I live in a small town in Silicon Valley. The opportuniry here is like nowhere else in the world.
I made every mistake in the world. I didn't get sober until I was 33. I should have been dead or in prison.
In most places, my life choices, starting so late, with nothing, would be slim to none.
Let's just say, with CA's opportunity, things worked out OK.
I love it here.