CA has a strong hand on recreation, one of the strongest. The mountains are the best in the world and largely empty if you avoid quota driven trailheads. But everything else’s about CA blows. The cities are really just poorly developed suburbs as far as the eye can see (unless you have a million bucks to spend on a home or a job where you can remote in). The people are far more image conscious than else where (where else do you find rental apartments with beamers in every stall). The roads and traffic are worse than anywhere I have been. And despite what you have heard, the pay is no better than anywhere else. The government is inefficient and injurious (people here in mn complain about a 20 min DMV line:). Basically California is amazing inspite of the man made.
I will hopefully move back, but only if I can count myself in the upper middle class and can work from home most days, otherwise, I shake the dust from the tires of my well worn crv. 213k miles and counting, hummed like a top the whole way.
Oh, and I am biking in tomorrow, high of 70 baby. Signing up for the birki soon, MN how I missed thee.
