[quote=bob2007]Ah yes, the “drawbridge”. After you move here/are born, everyone else degrades your life. If your going to make that argument you better go back a lot further than your own birth date.
Besides, I think you missed the point. If you are unhappy with where you are, regardless of how you got there, it affects everyday decisions both big and small. This will affect how you make friends, get along with coworkers, and likely job performance as well. With that attitude things will only get worse and perceived as things “happening to you”. My point/opinion is that its better to do something about it, rather than languish in the despair and decline in your quality of life.[/quote]
There is a certain “carrying capacity” here. Our resources are finite (water, infrastructure, land, clean air/ability to handle pollution, etc.). My DH is a third-generation Californian, and my parents moved here in the 1940s (dad) and early 1950s (mom). There was, in fact, much more room here, and it was totally possible for a middle-class family to live a decent life in a clean, safe neighborhood with a single earner (even one without a college degree!). We had lots of open space, even during my childhood, and we could get around fairly easily without too much traffic.
FWIW, I’m not a whiner by any means, and we’re perfectly fine, financially-speaking (no debt at all, plenty of cash, steady income). You just have to understand that those of us who grew up here have definitely seen some major changes for the worse. Many of us think things really started getting bad in the 80s. Personally, I love California, but hate what it’s becoming.
