Just got back from SoCal...all I gotta say is..

[carfantiti]

You live in mass ?
I lived on cape cod before :)

[TFJR]

I always enjoy visiting California. I grew up in Oregon & have been many times. I have to say the women & the weather are tough to top. I've never lived in Cali but have to say each area is vastly different than the next.

Santa Cruz seems like a great place to be. You get 4 seasons, the coast, the Redwoods and it isn't too densly populated.
I love Santa Monica & Santa Barbara but feel like I'd need to be ballin' to live the way I like to.

Washington DC is a welcome change from the PNW. There is a lot more congestion/traffic but there is a lot more drive and push to better yourself and your situation. This is something Portland, OR completely lacked. Most people I know over there living in their Mid/Late 20's either live at home or live in someones basement working some part time mediocre job. I will always love Portland but the hipsters & deadbeats get old after a while. Same with the rain & passiveness.

[mazdarati]

Texas>*

[freeride53]

I grew up, and spent most of my years age 0-18 in Northern California (SF Bay Area).
I've lived in Southern California (San Diego Area) for the last two years.

I've loved it so far, I just miss the atmosphere and beautiful hills & such in the Bay.
I've decided that I will not stay in San Diego following the end of my education, but it's whatever...

Ideally, I'd like to live in the SF Bay Peninsula (San Mateo Co.), San Francisco proper, or Berkeley/Oakland hills.

I couldn't ever see myself living in Contra Costa Co., or the city of Alameda...I pretty much grew up in Oakland (Alameda island) and now in my early 20's, Alameda is boring as FUCK.
It was a great little island to grow up on, and pretty chill through my teens (doing stupid teenager shit, etc)...

There are also a A LOT of E30's in SoCal. I felt a lot more "unique" and individualistic with E30 Ownership back in the Bay.

[fronton]

Having lived 5+ years in southern CA, ID and PA among several other states (TX, CO, WV, AZ), I can say by a large margin that Idaho is the state I'd most like to move back to. I will never move back to southern california if I can avoid it.

[Blackout]

Idaho is where it's at....

Yeah if i wanna grow wheat and potatoes for the rest of my life...:p

[lambo]

There are also a A LOT of E30's in SoCal. I felt a lot more "unique" and individualistic with E30 Ownership back in the Bay.

That's mighty hipster of you lol. I've always loved the bay area too, that's the main area of Cali that I've been around. The three places I'd like to end up are 1. Colorado 2. The PNW 3. The Bay Area.

[freeride53]

That's mighty hipster of you lol. I've always loved the bay area too, that's the main area of Cali that I've been around. The three places I'd like to end up are 1. Colorado 2. The PNW 3. The Bay Area.

Yee. Where in the Bay have you been?

These are the places that I want experience living in while I'm still in mah prime

1. San Francisco Proper (preferably the Marina dist.)
2. SF Peninsula or SF East bay
3. New York City
4. Seattle or Portland
5. Washington DC
6. Germany

Ultimately I want to settle down and spend the rest of my life in Da Yay

[EREKSHUN]

i travel alot with my job. Seeing all these different cities and towns across the US of A and there is nothing like SOCAL. yea we got traffic, smog, crime, etc. but so does everywhere else. All these other towns have the same issues. I guess its just where you feel at home the most. When im gone for 3-4 weeks i honestly miss the sirens and the ghetto bird out at night. I wouldnt trade our Weather, Woman, E30s, or anything SOCAL for the world!

[Farbin Kaiber]

Yeah if i wanna grow wheat and potatoes for the rest of my life...:p

People like you selling that bullshit is why it's so nice here. I'd like to recant, and tell you all to stay the fuck of my lawn.


(My lawn exists all the way up to the border of Canada, all along Eastern Washington, right on down to Eastern Oregon, along the northern side of Nevada and Utah, then right on up along Wyoming, and right along that wonky mountain border of Montana.)

Just FYI, I had the option to move to ANYWHERE in the United States ( Lower 48 ), and after my recce of lots of places I ended up here. (Yes, I live in the potato production capital of the world.) There is a reason why the people talking about Idaho ITT are saying what they are, but it's ok, you just might not understand it, so get back to the rat race, and run yourselves to the ground, and work those fingers to the bone.

[carfantiti]

What wrong with being a farmer dam wish I could own a farm .feeding america living of the land .that's something to dream for not hustle busly

[Thizzelle]

nor cal is better, we have trees!!!!!!!!

[Farbin Kaiber]

With the huge factory farming outfits, and the death taxes, I fear the era of the family farm is coming to a close. It's sad when you are land rich, but cash poor, and the government comes and takes 55% of the farm when Pop dies. The kids are too busy trying to get out to the big city and live the rough and tumble life of blinging and baller look, selling the farm so they can live the life for a few years, only to realize their kids have become everything they themselves were raised to not have any respect for.

People with credit cards, and no ability to pay for what they are buying, showing off for people that don't even care about them, and only want them for their approval and ability to sit, drinking a Starbuck's coffee, not really listening to what they are saying, just wanting to be seen with the newest spartphone and new pair of colorway collabs.

It's downright sad, I'm watching the crumbling of America, all because these people think that California really is the center of the Universe.

[Blackout]

People like you selling that bullshit is why it's so nice here. I'd like to recant, and tell you all to stay the fuck of my lawn.


(My lawn exists all the way up to the border of Canada, all along Eastern Washington, right on down to Eastern Oregon, along the northern side of Nevada and Utah, then right on up along Wyoming, and right along that wonky mountain border of Montana.)

Just FYI, I had the option to move to ANYWHERE in the United States ( Lower 48 ), and after my recce of lots of places I ended up here. (Yes, I live in the potato production capital of the world.) There is a reason why the people talking about Idaho ITT are saying what they are, but it's ok, you just might not understand it, so get back to the rat race, and run yourselves to the ground, and work those fingers to the bone.

Relax man i was just picking on you. I admire all states equally and i have explored most of them by car. Every state is unique and has beauty of its own. Idaho is beautiful.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Thanks, no offense taken. But really, no offense, but the last thing I want is for ID to end up like CA, even though I fear one day it will be. <3