California or Partyfornia?

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Okay so I got a few things to get off my chest.

Ive taken a lot of weekends and vacations to California from Arizona, where I lived for the past five years, and always thought it was real cool to come here and get wasted, party, paddle out into the ocean. And then I would go back home, to Phoenix and get serious about life again. California was sort of a party place where you get away and live it up for awhile.

But its a lot different when you live here, Im seeing this place from a totally different perspective. Its like everything just became "serious", youre here but you dont have anything to go back to now. I mean, this is it, and its either going to make you or break you.

Different environment, everything different, everything in the fast lane. This isnt anything like just visiting here, to me its like this big culture shock. Sometimes I wish I could just go back to Arizona for a while and take a break, and then come back and try to adjust. But...thats no longer an option.

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Dont know never been. Ihear the people are pretty cool, but the housing costs a butt load.

Maybe I should go and check it out......the people that is.

Joe

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LOL You will get use to it I guess. Growing up here I am just attune to the pace, the crowds and the prices. I visit other places for business and vacation and am constantly amazed how SLOW the pace is. Its like people have nothing to do.

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LOL You will get use to it I guess. Growing up here I am just attune to the pace, the crowds and the prices. I visit other places for business and vacation and am constantly amazed how SLOW the pace is. Its like people have nothing to do.

OMG, thats funny! I guess its all relative, but at least there's never a boring moment!

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Dont know never been. Ihear the people are pretty cool, but the housing costs a butt load.

Maybe I should go and check it out......the people that is.

Joe

On the housing, I think the deal is that its expensive because of a housing shortage here which is highly regulated, supposedly its an environmental concern but I think its just to keep from having too many people move here.

I noticed all apartment complexes here are never open on weekends, just weekdays from 9-5. Ive never seen that in any other place where they make it a point to be open on weekends. And they are expensive.

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>I think the deal is that its expensive because of a housing shortage
> here which is highly regulated, supposedly its an environmental
> concern but I think its just to keep from having too many people
> move here.

?? They are covering entire valleys with new houses here all the time. If you ever drive down to Skydive San Diego - that entire stretch, from the 805 to Otay (about 5 miles) used to be open space. Now it's wall-to-wall houses and mini-malls. The problem isn't that there's someone trying to keep housing expensive, it's that everyone wants to buy it. Heck, there was a ballot measure here a while ago to prevent people from subdividing farms into high-density housing for environmental reasons; it failed.

There are lots of million dollar plus houses around where I live. The only reason they are worth a million bucks is that people are willing to pay that much to live here.

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>I think the deal is that its expensive because of a housing shortage
> here which is highly regulated, supposedly its an environmental
> concern but I think its just to keep from having too many people
> move here.

?? They are covering entire valleys with new houses here all the time. If you ever drive down to Skydive San Diego - that entire stretch, from the 805 to Otay (about 5 miles) used to be open space. Now it's wall-to-wall houses and mini-malls. The problem isn't that there's someone trying to keep housing expensive, it's that everyone wants to buy it. Heck, there was a ballot measure here a while ago to prevent people from subdividing farms into high-density housing for environmental reasons; it failed.

There are lots of million dollar plus houses around where I live. The only reason they are worth a million bucks is that people are willing to pay that much to live here.

Yea well, I guess I better figure out how to get rich here. At least there is a lot more going on here than in Pheonix and housing there is beginning to climb. Why I dont know, its hot as hell, dusty, no ocean....not that cheap to live there like everybody thinks.