Thats mean. you can’t hood the teeth like that. The Children man! What of the children!?!?!?!? ;)
I lived in Cali a couple times. Once in the late 70s as a kid and later for a couple months for a job that temporarily there. So/Cal both times. Orange and Riverside areas. It was still OK in the 70s but by 2K it was just nuts. I’m on the border now in AZ and Needles across the river is like crossing the DMZ into Nork.
I wish the few remaining conservatives there would realize that they will never get their state back and head east.
NM is nice overall. Certainly cooler. HaZ some issues but then so do we with being californicated. There are far worse places to live ;)
We have been looking at some properties in the Yuma area, but the wife keeps watching the weather reports from there, and giving me “The Look”, and shaking her head.
My grandparents left me some of those Ranchettes outside of the Deming area, but for the immediate future I’d prefer that electricity actually ran to the property. I’m funny that way.
That is probably where we end up going.
I didn’t go to CA for the first time until 91, but every time I’ve been there, I see underneath the BS, and understand all to well why people wanted to go there. Shame they destroyed the place.