This is an EXCELLENT sign. Honestly, you don’t live here, you cannot comprehend the insanity.
I grew up there, and I comprehend the insanity all too well. That's why I left 15 years ago and never looked back.
Are you in the SF Bay Area?? I fled the Gay Area exactly 2 years ago, this Thanksgiving. And giving thanks, I shall once again!! I lived in the bay area for 12 years and frankly, it nearly ruined me. I still find it hard to be happy after the insanity I was exposed to for over a decade there. I was only there for the work — working as an engineer on the new bay bridges was good work — but the experience nearly ruined me.
Now I just wish for the big one to come and make Vallejo prime beachfront property. OK, just kidding! I have way too many people I like who I left behind and would not want them to be hurt. I pray that the 8.0+ earthquake does not hit the bay area in my lifetime. I don’t want to see the destruction. When it comes, it will be devastating and all of the people there will cry, “I didn’t know that was going to happen!”.
There were many times I was stuck in traffic jams on the upper deck of the bridge commuting home, thinking, if the big one hit now should I stay in the car and try to drive off, run to get off the bridge, or run for one of the towers. Even if some section of the bridge fell, I’m sure the towers would be a safe place to be.
I still wonder what it is going to be like. The traffic. The fires. The panic. Ruin. Displacement. No running water. Rapidly diminishing sanitation.
The though of an 8.0 SF earthquake scares me terribly.