Very good. We left CA in 2006... Reading this, I remember sitting so many evenings and so many hours in the ‘70’s discussing the state of “everything” with neighbors at the kitchen tables over coffee. It dawned on me just now that we weren’t complaining about CA as much as we were complaining about the state of the country. Coming out of the sixties, where were we going? Were the hippies we saw parading in the streets, while others burned down cities going to be the ones in charge in a few years? We had no idea.
By the time we were ready to leave - retire - things had reached the point of no return as we saw it. So sad as I truly did love CA and I wasn’t even a native. My husband was but I had moved there when I was 21 from NY State. Had no desire to go back there...
If it weren’t for being too old to ever consider returning, I would in a heart beat if not for that...when as the author said it gets turned around. The county we lived in for years (OC) went for Hillary in 2012 and that was unbelievable.
“The county we lived in for years (OC) went for Hillary in 2012 and that was unbelievable.”
north OC is finished. We have become LA. The Bush Republicans have won.