As Jason says... Nazifornia indeed!

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

As Jason says... Nazifornia indeed!

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

Reminds me of the guy that as a joke came up with the MSDS for water. Some folks actually took it seriously.

Oh well just another thing you can't do or use in Nazifornia. This stuff used to get people worked up. Now the masses don't even blink.

WAGONMAN · Member

salesortonscom wrote:
Reminds me of the guy that as a joke came up with the MSDS for water. Some folks actually took it seriously.

Oh well just another thing you can't do or use in Nazifornia. This stuff used to get people worked up. "Now the masses don't even blink."

Mission accomplished!

arbilad · Head Chef

Dihydrogen Monoxide

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Jason, is there anything good about California?

I figure there must be, or you'd put your money where your mouth is and move somewhere else.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

It's got really nice weather.

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

bokbadok wrote:
Jason, is there anything good about California?
I figure there must be, or you'd put your money where your mouth is and move somewhere else.

My family has been here for six generations, seven if you count my kids. After that long the shock to my genetic material might be too much. The real test is if they ever ban hunting and/or fishing here. Then I'm outta here and so is my brother.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

rayb wrote:
It's got really nice weather.

Yes, Ray, parts of California do indeed have nice weather. I lived in the SF Bay Area for 7 1/2 years. Nicest climate I am ever likely to experience. But not enough to keep me there. The political atmosphere, and the anti-family climate was too much.

Come on Jason... is your family roots all that's keeping you there? Are you just a home boy who is afraid to leave the nest?

(where's that devil with a pitchfork emoticon when I need it?)

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

All right. The weather is genuinely great. I can drive two hours one direction and be in the mountains and two hours the other direction and be at the beach. The scuba diving is some of the best in the upper 48. The surfing is fantastic. The hunting and fishing are great. My brother and I have a business here that has been in the family for 100 years that we enjoy working in (except for all the govt. paperwork and requirements). The part of Nazifornia I live in is rural so I don't have to deal with the traffic or the morons in SanFranGayco.

My second choice with be to live in someplace in the southwest, south, or southeast. I love Montanna, Wyoming, and Alaska except for the cold. I can get the same solitude in the southern part of the U.S. without the cold. Texas offers a lot of what I like including the gulf coast which would satisfy my scuba diving and salgreener fishing fetishes.

Is that enough. I know that most of the population is pretty transient these days but there is still something hard leaving a place where your great, great grandfather started out with nothing and made it into something. I can literally drive ten miles down the road and look at the graves of my ancestors. One of my customers is 90+ years old and remembers hunting with my great grandmother when he was a boy. Those sort of things are hard to transfer to another location. It is really hard to explain if you don't have deep roots in an area like this what it is like to leave. Part Mayberry, part Grapes of Wrath, part Born in East LA.

PS: Is Salt Water a bad word? The filter keeps writing it as salgreener.

-- Edited by salesortonscom at 15:11, 2007-01-29

-- Edited by salesortonscom at 15:12, 2007-01-29

arbilad · Head Chef

Jason, look at the 4th through 7th letters of salt water when it's all together.

I can certainly sympathize with you. There are many things I miss about California. But I had a couple of very good reasons. First, it became too expensive for me to live there. Second, I didn't think that it was a very goo environment for raising children anymore.