“My last trip to California in 2010 unnerved me so bad———”
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Was it just crime or other things? (I have never been to the area.)
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No, not crime. It was more a general feeling of strangeness, as if I was in a foreign country (which I have lots of experience with).
It's hard to describe. Call it a psychic thing, if you will. It's just that the people I encountered, all emanated a 'vibe' that felt alien to me. It felt as though the very air around me was full of a certain cultural agreement that was invisible, yet palpable.
It was the same feeling you get when you're in a non-western country, and it spooked me because I really wasn't expecting to encounter such a thing in my own country.