Posted on 08/03/2005 12:24:40 PM PDT by DesignerChick
I'm considering getting transfered from my job and moving to San Deigo or Los Angeles (where my company has offices.)
Any Freepers want to give a Jersey girl some advice?
I've never been to Ca. but I've had it with Jersey. I know there are at least five Conservatives in Califorina (thats three more than NJ)- help me out people!
Check out the web site below before moving:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
Mexican Spanish is different than Puerto Rican Spanish.
San Diego - it is a much nicer city than LA and sports a large population of navy and marines. Be ready for heat! Be ready for expensive housing. Be ready to encounter our border issues up close and personal.
Believe it or not, there are conservatives in the state - even in the San Francisco area where I live. I see "W" stickers daily on my commute to work. Its just that the whack-jobs outnumber us right-thinkers.
You will be moving to a great and very beautiful state; my only suggestion is find a temporary place to stay and move very very close to you office.
The weather is nice.
Try Utah!!! We have everything that's good about CA scenery, mountains, etc. (well, unless you just have to have an ocean nearby.....) and almost none of the downside: a lot fewer leftist idiots here (though they do run Salt Lake City), little crowding outside of the Salt Lake valley, etc..... and a lot of good people!
Move to Texas instead.
You're already used to being surrounded by Blue-Staters, and you've already seen crazy politicians in action, so the question is whether you want to trade bad weather for earthquakes.
Habla usted espanol?
Los Angeles-San Bernardino for the southern part. Middle part was San Francisco-Vallejo.
I'd pick SD, and you can run for mayor...everyone else is..
CA is just like NJ except the people are all tanned and don't sound like the Sopranos...........
I'm a conservative living in Los Altos (around San Jose), probably moving to San Diego one of these days. We need more of you out here! Help! :-)
Seriously, although everyone complains about it, I think you'll like it. I moved here from New York and never looked back.
I live in the conservative enclave of Newport Beach, roughly equidistant between both cities. Given your choices, and if O.C.'s not an option, go with San Diego. Great weather, less smoggy, BIG military presence, a lot fewer whackos, and its surrounded by a lot of beautiful country (not to mention it has the Pacific Ocean). You definitely want to live near your office though as traffic congestion there (as in LA) is really bad. Commute can be nasty.
Best of luck.
Hablo Espanol? - if not, leaqrn it.
And get a 'Club' security device for your car ...
Brad's gramma lives in So. California...she can tell you more up to date info than I, though I lived in Southern Calif for over 20 years and return for visits about every year or so.
There's lots of traffic, and one's day is planned around freeway traffic....
The weather is dry, much dryer than New Jersey/New York...but, if you're in San Diego, you're closer to the beach, so you'd have much more dampness.
The housing costs are astronomical.
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