Your exclamation of dislike for California is very, very sad and may, indeed, be justified. I do know a lot about CA and would not live in the valley or very south of Marin County no matter what. I often yearn to be very close to or in very northern Calif. I do not like what I read of it as far as how it describes its current situation and describes the “rulers”.
Both my parents were born and raised in California until they went to the PI where they were married. My dad was a gold mining engineer
I am an old woman of 84 and after being in two concentration camps developed and run by the Japanese in the Philippine Islands for 3 years, we were set free by the American army. We were scheduled, actually, to be shot and killed by the Japanese guards when we were rescued by American Army men who parachuted in to our camps.
My brother who was born the week or so before we were incarcerated has little memory of this, but I do remember much as I was almost 7 yo when we were rescued.
My family and I ended up in California where my parents came from before they went to the PI. They were both very withdrawn and non-interactive with the local population in Mill Valley and they both had a horrible time with me in terms of my schooling. (I was a very complicated child for all kinds of reasons.) But regardless of the problems of living in California, they loved “their” state and never left until my Dad passed away.
I have been back to CA and I, too, have no interest in staying unless I live in Northern CA.
No place else has been half as interesting as CA in the ultimate analysis. And very few places have seen what has happened to CA. It is a shameful situation as I see it.
Sigh.
I also lived outside of LA.....went back a few years ago also, and it was DISGUSTING!!
HAWAII was DISGUSTING with ALL THE HOMELESS TENT CITIES EVERYWHERE!!
Wherever Democrats are in charge, they RUIN and DESTROY IT! EVERYWHERE AND EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH IS RUINED!