90Blue_XJ said:
No Grimm I was inviting you to leave Cali before the fires and earthquakes kill off all the asshats out there. We have room here for all types even a few liberals (just a few) but you are all to uptight for us old country boys, so just chill a little before you pack up you XJ and move out of Cali. Here the traffic is heavy for about 8 minutes a day and thats when the farm to market roads are jembed up with tractors or herds of cattle.
There are also those of us who are
in California, but who do not consider themselves Californians. I feel like an expat American out here, and there's really only one thing holding me here at the moment (it's fairly complex - like the fact that my BIL needs to pull up his pants, stand up straight, and face up to his wife...)
"If you aren't a Liberal by age twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a Conservative by age thirty, you have no brain." By that definition, I have
never had a heart - I've never agreed with the new crop of Liberals running around (and there aren't very many "good" Democrats in the historical record - I'd stand by JFK because he advocated out being strong, and I like Harry Truman because he was reasonably honest. The system started to fall apart once "politician" became a career choice.)
I didn't have to deal with herds of cattle on the roads growing up - most of the farms in IN are produce farms - but I did have to deal with tractors. A "busy" time on I-65 looked like 280 at 0200 out here.
I won't be bringing "Liberal California thinking" with me when I leave, because I never have had it. Fortunately, neither has my wife (else I wouldn't have been able to put up with her lovely arse for the last eleven years...)
The more California tries to set itself apart, the worse it's going to get. Frankly, it should be split off and divided into four countries - North California, South California, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Require passports and limited visas for Californians (in general) to visit the United States, and make sure they go back out. Leave California to the Californians - or just hand it back to Mexico (if we don't annex them first.)
If the Central Valley weren't so damned hot, I'd probably have moved there years ago - but I've gone from "marginal tolerance" of heat to summer head draining me and causing physical pain - which royally sucks. But, the people there have their heads screwed on rather straighter than the people here in the metropoli - the problem of Sacramento still remains, tho...
