[MplsSteve]

I've seen Marin County's voting numbers before. Solidly left-wing.

Is this county (in real life) as whacky and reality-detached as it as appears in print and TV articles?

[CATravelAgent]

Yes, unfortunately it's pretty much true, with the exceptions of the extremely wealthy old money (Ross & Belvedere) and the West Marin ranching community.

Almost everyone else is a warm-fuzzy liberal (except when you disagree with them) in favor of social engineering, nanny state, tofu eating, gun-banning, tree hugging, Bambi loving, spare-the-air, diversity... etc... Did I leave anything out?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Is this county (in real life) as whacky and reality-detached as it as appears in print and TV articles?

Speaking as someone who lived there for thirty years, not at all. Marin is just populated with a lot of wealthy lawyers and psychologists who specialize in issuing pronouncements on how the benighted little people in other parts of the USA should live. ;)

[scott says]

" Is this county (in real life) as whacky and reality-detached as it as appears in print and TV articles?"

Well.....sorta. I moved here almost 20 years ago because of the weather and beautiful landscape.It is overwhelmingly liberal, I call it Moron County. I just laugh at these clowns, you can't take these brain dead 60's leftovers seriously.Like anywhere, there is a lot of "normal" people here but we are outnumbered by the fools.

[usflagwaver]

I work in Marin County. I drive 1 1/2 hours each way so that I don't have to LIVE in Marin County. All the aging hippies live here. But San Francisco and Bezerkley are worse, in my opinion. Of course, both places are only 20-30 minutes away.

[Alia]

Uh, yeah. Lagunitas was a big pot-acid community in the 70s. Is Marin whacked? Yep. After my first was born, I knew I had to move her to safety and sanity -- out of Marin.