We bought a house in North Idaho six years ago. I thought we were buying a summer home, but my wife loves it so much (and is SO fed up with CA) that she lives there year round. I enjoy coming back to CA because those winters are long, dark, gray, wet, and snowy. I grew up in that and vowed never to go back to miserable winters. My wife grew up in the Bay Area and I’m surprised she’s toughed out the winters in Idaho so long.
If you can hold your nose about about the horrendous political crap in CA, it’s still a nice place to live. The thing that pisses me off daily is the horrendous condition of the roads. That wasn’t the case when we weren’t paying illegals and bums tens of billions of dollars every year. We could have first-class roads if we would stop catering to the parasites.
I flew into SF in ‘86 and did the tourist thing on my way to Sacramento/Roseville for a 10 day stay......fisherman’s wharf, Lombard street, Golden Gate Bridge....stuff like that.
A truly beautiful and unique city, even back then just observing the people for only one afternoon I could see where it was going to go and sure enough.......glad I was there when I was, I have no plans or desire to go back for any reason.
A real shame liberals have turned some of it into a cesspool.