My parents took me when I was a kid. We won't hijack long. I spent my first 40 years in the San Gabriel Valley, doing lots of stuff and traveling about. It was a great time to be in Cali. Not now. We moved to central virginia a dozen years ago and it was a great move. It's a great time to be here. We are lucky.
EEEEK! I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, in Hacienda Heights, and I moved to West L.A. in my 20’s. Bishop Amat, class of ‘64. Married at 32, and lived in The Valley (like, fer sher). Hubby got a job in Concord, so we moved to Benicia. Then another job took us to Ohio. Roots firmly down here, we bought a house.
Oddly, we almost moved to Virginia for a job there, but Hubby chose the one in Ohio instead.