I grew up in LA and went to UC Berkeley in the early 70s. I left in 1979 and never went back except to visit family. Now I live in CT, almost as bad but not quite. My family is pushing me to move back, but I really am having trouble with it, as much as I love them. Just visiting there and being forbidden to use plastic bags at the stores pisses me off. The smug self-righteousness of the left permeates everything. I don’t think I could take it.
My folks and I sailed in to Oakland back in ‘61, after being stationed overseas for nearly a decade. We came in on the MSTS ship General W. A. Mann, under the Golden Gate Bridge.
California looked damned good to me at the time.
Connecticut or California? I will take CT over CA since CT do have some areas of conservatives. I love the four seasons of CT and the hills, too.
I know I couldn’t take it and we only live about 12 miles from the “border”. NorCal on the eastern side of the state is beautiful and most of the folks are conservative but like most places, the big lib/prog/socialist cities control what gets passed and the little guys in the boonies are left with their pants down. Kind of like why we have a electoral college for national elections. Popular vote? No thanks.
lived in Ct in the 80s and CA in early 2000s.
both are beautiful.
I think Ct won out as a family place.
We cannot judge the character of a place by beauty alone.
Live in Texas now. Is it beautiful? yes, in different ways.
Its beauty is not in just scenery but in the people and its law-abiding and God-fearing citizens.
This is where I die
I would live in CA only if I had no income that can be taxed and buy property. And I would live away from the cities as well. Like far Northern CA.