Thinking of SoCal

[Contempt]

I actually travel quite often. I say that it’s the greatest city on earth because you can create wealth here unlike most other places. The amount of wealth in the variety of fields that exists here is staggering. meeting connections that can carry you through life isn’t an easy feat but it’s par for the course in this city. Not to mention the weather is perfect year round, and there is beauty from the hills to the beaches and the women in the streets. LA has the debonaire for flair that most other cities try to imitate but fall flat on. Even the traffic and the high cost of living are a testament to the fact that everyone wants to be here. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and my city is the most beautiful one in the world to me.

Fair call.

Not close to the top of my list but hey, glad you love it.

 

[fingercuffs]

OK, I'll definitely keep that in mind. Thanks.

Lol, reading that back realised it's probably not the best conversation about how you and I like fighting so much and came across each other but here to help if need be. Just don't come back here again just yet. It's going to be another hellish trek and then potentially another one back again. I would be a terrible friend if I told you to go for it.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

Lol, reading that back realised it's probably not the best conversation about how you and I like fighting so much and came across each other but here to help if need be. Just don't come back here again just yet. It's going to be another hellish trek and then potentially another one back again. I would be a terrible friend if I told you to go for it.

Oh, no worries. I totally understand what you're saying.

 

[fingercuffs]

I’ve only actually lived in Mexico (11 months) and Florida (6 years). Although I’ve traveled to Canada, Peru, Holland, London, Sweden, South Africa, And Germany.

As for visiting US states/cities I’ve quite literally traveled throughout this country. With the exception of some of the Midwest.

You only really get a feel for a city when you've lived there. And I'm not on my high horse about this. I lived in Amsterdam for 4 years and while it's fun, it's totally different living there to visiting there. London is the same as much as I love it.

LA is still on my radar to move to because I really do love it and compared to buying here, it's actually not badly priced to buy a house in LA. I just think about traffic...but restaurant, gigs and bar scene other than NYC (of places I've been to) spot on for my needs.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

Cali has been shit the last few years Imo
From the homeless to high taxes to all the libtards.

Move somewhere down south

Uh, no. Definitely not.

I appreciate the suggestion but I'm one of those folks you refer to as "libtards" so no red states for me.

 

[Robocok]

I grew up in OC and know it well. I had good times in So Cal but I am done with that place. It's not what it used to be imo. These are a few of my good memories there.

Spoiler

 

[sweetviolenturg]

but restaurant, gigs and bar scene other than NYC (of places I've been to) spot on for my needs.

Damn but you're high maintenance.

 

[Substance Abuse]

Cali has been shit the last few years Imo
From the homeless to high taxes to all the libtards.

Move somewhere down south

Low IQ saltiness on your behalf shouldn't be enough to cause someone not to move here, lol.

 

[fingercuffs]

Damn but you're high maintenance.

Mentally, probably yup

 

[Robocok]

Uh, no. Definitely not.

I appreciate the suggestion but I'm one of those folks you refer to as "libtards" so no red states for me.

Memphis is pretty liberal but it would suck to live there imo. I like to visit and go to the botanical garden and on the roof of the Peabody. I don't know about Nashville. You know more than me.

If you can get over the politics, and not everyone is conservative even out in the country, there is a lot to love about the south imo.

Spoiler

 

[Swiftie]

I'd take San Diego over LA. It just felt cleaner, more laid back, less traffic, and great weather. I lived in Southern California for 3 years. Luckily for me I didn't have to worry about housing costs. I was stationed at Camp Pendleton Marine Base. As far as Orange County/LA goes. I use to go to San Clemente Beach which was nice and I would go to LA sometimes with friends to check out the sites. I use to go to San Diego every year to visit some family, but they moved to the Temecula area because it was cheaper. I think you should consider Nashville because your son is there. You have to do what's best for you and I wish you the best.

 

[Badoldman]

Ever since getting the boot from my house in Sedona by my mother-in-law, I've been almost obsessively thinking of Southern California. I realize that I'm romanticizing it because it's where I met my wife but that's OK. If I'm going to romanticize someplace it might as well be SoCal because everyone else does it. My obsession is specifically about Orange County since that's where Jana & I spent the vast majority of our time together when I met her there a few years ago. I only saw a little bit of LA & the rest of the time we spent in her hometown of Orange, her old neighborhood in Newport Beach where she lived while she was in college, Santa Ana, Costa Mesa & some other places too. And I fell in love with it. I didn't think I'd want to go back there without my wife but it's actually become the opposite. I feel like it's calling me & that I'd feel closer to her there.

Went there for a wedding at someplace called the Pelican Resort or something in Newport Beach. I left Texas on an October morning and it was 106 degrees and humid. Landed in Newport Beach and it was an arid 68. All the restaurants and hotels doors are open because there are no flies or mosquitos. At night is was a cool calming 58 degrees. Wind off the Pacific Ocean and one of the most beautiful places on earth. The people were nice and laid back. Maybe had something to do with the climate. Went to the gym to get in a lift and the people there working out looked like an episode of Baywatch back in the day. Got off the plane in Texas and that hot sticky blast of air, like someone's stanky breath hit me. I have lived and worked in Texas all my life. Played football, baseball and ran track in this weather. I still train boxing daily and I will confess, I will never get used to the heat and humidity. When you kill a cockroach here they are so damned big you have to tag it with a deer tag and call the haz-mat team to clean the gallons of goo left after you squash it. When I box in my garage-gym on occasion I have to slather myself in mosquito repellent to keep from getting carried off. Those big black banded mosquitos draw a quart at a time. Ah-my home state. I tell people who inform me they're not from Texas (I already know) that if they've lived in Texas for one summer (basically April till November) they're all Texan. It is one of the most liberty loving states in the US and we have a strong tradition of honoring our "characters" and minding our own damn business. But the heat and humidity is oppressive and normally friendly and engaging Texans run a little hot. California dreaming.

 

[Oceanmachine]

Ever since getting the boot from my house in Sedona by my mother-in-law, I've been almost obsessively thinking of Southern California. I realize that I'm romanticizing it because it's where I met my wife but that's OK. If I'm going to romanticize someplace it might as well be SoCal because everyone else does it. My obsession is specifically about Orange County since that's where Jana & I spent the vast majority of our time together when I met her there a few years ago. I only saw a little bit of LA & the rest of the time we spent in her hometown of Orange, her old neighborhood in Newport Beach where she lived while she was in college, Santa Ana, Costa Mesa & some other places too. And I fell in love with it. I didn't think I'd want to go back there without my wife but it's actually become the opposite. I feel like it's calling me & that I'd feel closer to her there.

Listen to this instinct. If it is logical but also an inner passion it means it has good energy for you then yiu must go there

 

[crabmeat]

LA is the greatest city on earth. You sir sound like a hater. Isn’t FL literally being hit with a hurricane like right now (weather is way better here). It’s expensive because it’s where everyone wants to be here, but not everyone is built to make it here.

Bah. Tropical storm. This is really being overhyped. Late last night, some guy on the local news hopped out of his car and started yammering about a gigantic tree branch that almost crushed his car. The reporter started talking about the destruction the current winds were causing. Later, the news crew goes to this sorry branch that still attached to a tree. Egg is on the reporters face. That branch has been like that for over a week and would have fallen on the sidewalk. The city does need take care of it, though.

 

[Simple Southerner]

Uh, no. Definitely not.

I appreciate the suggestion but I'm one of those folks you refer to as "libtards" so no red states for me.

Ik you swing left i been known that.
Also there's a difference between a liberal and a libtard lol

You really won't move to a state that's
"Red"

<Lmaoo>

 

[crabmeat]

Uh, no. Definitely not.

I appreciate the suggestion but I'm one of those folks you refer to as "libtards" so no red states for me.

In my county, you couldn't tell if you didn't know Florida was red.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

Went there for a wedding at someplace called the Pelican Resort or something in Newport Beach. I left Texas on an October morning and it was 106 degrees and humid. Landed in Newport Beach and it was an arid 68. All the restaurants and hotels doors are open because there are no flies or mosquitos. At night is was a cool calming 58 degrees. Wind off the Pacific Ocean and one of the most beautiful places on earth. The people were nice and laid back. Maybe had something to do with the climate. Went to the gym to get in a lift and the people there working out looked like an episode of Baywatch back in the day. Got off the plane in Texas and that hot sticky blast of air, like someone's stanky breath hit me. I have lived and worked in Texas all my life. Played football, baseball and ran track in this weather. I still train boxing daily and I will confess, I will never get used to the heat and humidity. When you kill a cockroach here they are so damned big you have to tag it with a deer tag and call the haz-mat team to clean the gallons of goo left after you squash it. When I box in my garage-gym on occasion I have to slather myself in mosquito repellent to keep from getting carried off. Those big black banded mosquitos draw a quart at a time. Ah-my home state. I tell people who inform me they're not from Texas (I already know) that if they've lived in Texas for one summer (basically April till November) they're all Texan. It is one of the most liberty loving states in the US and we have a strong tradition of honoring our "characters" and minding our own damn business. But the heat and humidity is oppressive and normally friendly and engaging Texans run a little hot. California dreaming.

Oh, yeah. Newport Beach is the best. I love it there so much. My wife & I almost moved there back in 2019 when her father still had property in Orange County but then he sold it so we moved to Sedona, AZ instead.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

I'd take San Diego over LA. It just felt cleaner, more laid back, less traffic, and great weather. I lived in Southern California for 3 years. Luckily for me I didn't have to worry about housing costs. I was stationed at Camp Pendleton Marine Base. As far as Orange County/LA goes. I use to go to San Clemente Beach which was nice and I would go to LA sometimes with friends to check out the sites. I use to go to San Diego every year to visit some family, but they moved to the Temecula area because it was cheaper. I think you should consider Nashville because your son is there. You have to do what's best for you and I wish you the best.

Thanks, bro. I appreciate your input.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

Ik you swing left i been known that.
Also there's a difference between a liberal and a libtard lol

You really won't move to a state that's
"Red"

<Lmaoo>

It's not so much that I won't move to a "red" state. Hell, Arizona was still considered "red" when I moved there. It's the south that I don't like. I can't stand the heat with high humidity. No offense but it's just not for me.

 

[Protectandserve]

Come spend a few days out here. Make a trip out of it. Reminisce, see the old sights and visit the old places again.

It will probably help some of what your feeling.

As others have said housing and cost of living out here is insane.

Gas is currently over 4 dollars a gallon for the cheap stuff, rent in most of OC is in excess of 2k a month for a studio. Buying a house is almost impossible unless you can make an all cash above asking purchase.