I reluctantly left California (my home for 40 years) last year. I do love the state as a locality, as land as diverse as the lowest desert in North America to the highest mountain in the lower 48 states. Love it for its magnificent coast line, wonderful weather, gorgeous spring wildflowers after a wet winter, and too many other things to list here. But I hate the politics of California and what the Democrats have done to the state.
I'll always miss California, though. :(
I'll always miss California, though. :(
This is what my wife and I are working through right now. We'll both be retired next Spring, and the decision is to whether we'll follow our daughter to Texas, who permanently moved there last month.
The weather and our love of the coastline makes this a brutally hard decision. But the people and the cost of living here are huge negatives. The fact that our daughter would love for us to move closer to her just adds to the dilemma.
I left Cal about 45 years ago. I visit my mom a couple of times a year and still love the place—but I’m grateful I got out when I did. My mom lives San Diego county and the local school district just finished building a new state-of-the-art high school. The district funded it with a loan that has a balloon payment of the whole debt in 20 years. I think the debt will be a couple of billion dollars. Everyone on the board will likely be dead when it is due, but someone is going to have to pay and I don’t think they’re going to be happy about it.