[quote=kev374][quote=spdrun]And SoCal isn’t a raging, humid, hot rathole like humidlanta. There’s a REASON why prices are higher in CA than in JawhJah.[/quote]
Actually I lived in the South about 2 decades ago and don’t recall it being a humid, hot rathole at all. The weather was fine…many places around the world have such weather, Singapore is an example and even New York City has humid weather. When I go to places like Cancún and Cozumel it’s humid there too but I manage to enjoy myself! That in itself is no reason to dismiss a place, people in CA are just too spoiled! As I said I grew up in the tropics, I can handle it.
I was in Bangkok for a while and THAT place is humid, but I absolutely loved my time in Bangkok despite the searing heat and humidity. Same thing about Miami, it was humid as hell but there were other aspects about the place that I liked which took the focus away from the weather.
I have friends who live in the South, a couple in Tennessee and one in Savannah, GA. They seem to absolutely LOVE where they are living. Californians have this delusion that everyone living outside of CA is miserable!
What is a rathole is the various neighborhoods in LA or OC you would find yourself if you have anything less than craploads of money.
Gang infested sh!tholes like Sylmar and Pacoima or Santa Ana and Garden Grove are now your only options if you don’t have gobs of cash or super jumbo financing! People here only seem to talk about the weather but what about the other aspects that contribute to quality of life? The ability to have money to spend on other comforts on life besides housing? The ability to live in a great neighborhood? The ability to send your kids to good schools?
What good is the weather going to do you if you’re spending half a million dollars, which is a princely sum for even the upper middle class, to live in a gang infested sh!thole?[/quote]
It’s true that many people are spending themselves into oblivion to live in CA, and only time will tell how that will play out for them and for their families in their later years.
With your perspective, I think you’ll probably enjoy living wherever you choose to go, and, perhaps you’ll find yourself in a position to return to CA in the future–should you care to.
