[Disambiguator]

I’m a 3rd generation Californian, and I left 20 years ago. Nice weather only gets you so far.

I feel like a foreigner when I go back to visit.

[ScottinVA]

“I feel like a foreigner when I go back to visit.”

I escaped in 1976 and feel the exact same way.

[SIDENET]

I’m a 3rd generation Californian, and I left 20 years ago. Nice weather only gets you so far. I feel like a foreigner when I go back to visit.

Well, considering that it's essentially Mexico now, you kinda are a foreigner.

(I'm 2nd generation, and left in 1992)

[grayeagle]

"I’m a 3rd generation Californian, and I left 20 years ago. Nice weather only gets you so far."

I am also 3rd generation, my grandparents came to California on wagon trains, met and married in "Hangtown" (Placerville). They must be rollin' over in their graves by what they see now.

[Windflier]

I feel like a foreigner when I go back to visit.

I went back to Cali to visit the family in 2010. For the five days I was there, I felt like I was in some sort of hallucinogenic nightmare. I mean, the place creeped me out that bad.

My discomfort didn't stop until the wheels went up on the plane back home to Texas.