Roc Doc
2A SNBI
Honest question.
I was born there and lived my first 33 years between Santa Maria, Visalia and Sacramento. But I left because the cost of housing was getting farther and farther away, and I didn't have the opportunities that I saw in Las Vegas. I loved being on the rivers and lakes from March to November, and at the ski resorts in winter. Loved the American River bike trail, brew pubs and all the music festivals, but that was when Orange County was staunchly conservative, Hollywood wasn't anywhere near as political as is is now, and before Silicon Valley jacked the prices for the whole rest of the state. When I left, I thought I'd be back some day, but the direction that state has gone in the last 30 years leads me to believe it's gone past the tipping point and that there will just be another Newsom/Brown/Davis/etc., from here on out.
Why do you stay?
What is the final straw that would make you look to another state or country?
I was born there and lived my first 33 years between Santa Maria, Visalia and Sacramento. But I left because the cost of housing was getting farther and farther away, and I didn't have the opportunities that I saw in Las Vegas. I loved being on the rivers and lakes from March to November, and at the ski resorts in winter. Loved the American River bike trail, brew pubs and all the music festivals, but that was when Orange County was staunchly conservative, Hollywood wasn't anywhere near as political as is is now, and before Silicon Valley jacked the prices for the whole rest of the state. When I left, I thought I'd be back some day, but the direction that state has gone in the last 30 years leads me to believe it's gone past the tipping point and that there will just be another Newsom/Brown/Davis/etc., from here on out.
Why do you stay?
What is the final straw that would make you look to another state or country?