I thought I explained fully what my reasons were? High population density, paying 10 times the amount for what a home is really worth, bad schools, illegal alien problems up the wazoo, everything turning into pavement instead of grass... etc etc etc etc etc etc. Crime is higher in the larger cities and highly populated area's, do you deny this? (IE; New York, Dallas, L.A. etc) The fact that crime has been getting worse in Southern California (notice I didn't say ONLY southern Cal?) Tells me things are not getting any better there, which {to me} backs my opinion up on why I do not wish to ever go back.
And I did not bring this sentiment up on this "crime thread", someone else did, I just agreed with their opinion of So. Cal, So if your debate is that I associate ONLY crime with California simply because brought up this in this particular thread, perhaps you should take this debate up with the original FR Members who originally brought that sentiment up.
But hey, thanks for telling me what I think.