[ApplegateRanch]

I am a 4th generation Californian who left the state. It is not the state that I grew up in.

I've got you beat by a genration...I'm fifth gen, and left over 20 years ago.

Ditto what you said, in spades.

[Hildy]

I came here to California 15 years ago and in that time the state has changed. I'm out of here next month. Leaving paradise. Will miss the weather, but that's it.