Perhaps you didn’t spend the first 45 years of your life in Southern California, as I did?
Most of those last 40 years were great. I was very lucky. But that life is gone now, overwhelmed by overpopulation, gross and horrible development, filthy, tasteless rich pigs, and poor Mexicans. I won't go back.
I understand very well what you're talking about...but now that I've lived in rural California full time for more than a decade I see that it, too, has problems. Problems that I was completely unaware of when I lived down south.