SoCal, HERE I COME!!!!!

[RedHeartbeat]

while out there, stop in at west coast choppers in Long Beach. Long Beach pier and business area is very nice. You can also tour the Queen Mary at LB harbour. Tell Jesse James hi for us all and be sure to remind him what a dumbass he is for getting married in the first place and then for cheating on his wife. Knotts Berry Farm is nice and it costs nothing to go into it to look around or eat lunch/dinner. Take Beach Blvd north from Huntington beach and you go right to it, 8 or so miles up the road.

[bangbangskeetskeet]

while out there, stop in at west coast choppers in Long Beach. Long Beach pier and business area is very nice. You can also tour the Queen Mary at LB harbour. Tell Jesse James hi for us all and be sure to remind him what a dumbass he is for getting married in the first place and then for cheating on his wife. Knotts Berry Farm is nice and it costs nothing to go into it to look around or eat lunch/dinner. Take Beach Blvd north from Huntington beach and you go right to it, 8 or so miles up the road.

Jesse is in sex rehab here in Az at the moment.

Definitely check out the San Diego zoo, its one of the best zoo's in the world IMO.

[lo-lyf]

I'm definitely ready to get out there and see it all....

[bangbangskeetskeet]

There is definitely a lot of stuff to see out there. I like to visit but couldnt ever live there.

[lo-lyf]

we'll see in June if I could live there. I have a pretty strong feeling that it will be my cup o' tea.

[bangbangskeetskeet]

we'll see in June if I could live there. I have a pretty strong feeling that it will be my cup o' tea.

I guess I'm just not a tree huggin hippie.
Dont get me wrong I love the beach and all that Cali has to offer, but I couldnt take it for more than the 2 weeks I spend there every year. Having a daughter also makes me not want to live there, the air is terrible, and the gun laws are horrible.

Not trying to tell you what to do or anything like that. Just me being me I guess.

[lo-lyf]

I guess I'm just not a tree huggin hippie.
Dont get me wrong I love the beach and all that Cali has to offer, but I couldnt take it for more than the 2 weeks I spend there every year. Having a daughter also makes me not want to live there, the air is terrible, and the gun laws are horrible.

Not trying to tell you what to do or anything like that. Just me being me I guess.

right right, I like to hear what people dislike about Cali and why, I am a bit of a tree hugger so putting cats and emissions stuff back on the truck is no issue. I have a gun that I hardly ever carry so that really isn't a big deal either. If someone wants to put a gun in my face to steal something then they obviously need it more than I do. One thing I wouldn't like is not being able to shoot someone if they were in my house, uninvited, and have no questions asked. I wouldn't want to live in a huge city, I'm more of an outskirts kinda dude. I'm really in love with the idea of going to the beach one day and going snowboarding the other, also having more to choose from when it comes to stuff to do. I get WAAAAY too bored around here.

[bangbangskeetskeet]

right right, I like to hear what people dislike about Cali and why, I am a bit of a tree hugger so putting cats and emissions stuff back on the truck is no issue. I have a gun that I hardly ever carry so that really isn't a big deal either. If someone wants to put a gun in my face to steal something then they obviously need it more than I do. One thing I wouldn't like is not being able to shoot someone if they were in my house, uninvited, and have no questions asked. I wouldn't want to live in a huge city, I'm more of an outskirts kinda dude. I'm really in love with the idea of going to the beach one day and going snowboarding the other, also having more to choose from when it comes to stuff to do. I get WAAAAY too bored around here.

You should check out AZ. Yeah its a little farther to drive to the beach, but its less than a days drive. From my house I can drive a max of 6 hours in any direction and have just about any type of climate I want. Its 6 hours to San Diego, 2 hours to both of the snowboard resorts, 5 hours if you wanna go to Big Bear in Cali, 45 min to the closest lake, just about 2 hours to one of my favorite lakes. Sure it gets a little hot during the summer but thats what vacations are for. We dont get snow, it rains like 4 days a year, and the winter RARELY gets down to 35*.

[blueflamed03]

my only advice on things that may be different is just stear clear of Compton and Inglewood at night, they are not good areas to be. ive been in some situation there at night and me being a suburban white guy it was a little sketchy. But you should be fine anywhere else. Just gotta use good common sense.

amen, that's where I'll actually be for Monday-Wednesday next week, Compton. Love how they changed the name to Rancho Dominguez. LOL

[Fasglas]

SoCal is my kinda place (I think), although I've never been there for more than a few days at a time. I might change my mind if I was there for a while. I've always been drawn to the SoCal mystique.

It's strange how you can live anywhere in the country, but you still know the names and many of the places in SoCal. It's just that cool there I guess. But in my eyes it was much cooler in the past. These days it's getting less and less appealing there.

As I already posted the things that would keep me from living there is the price of housing, the laws, taxes and the traffic jams. I think the traffic would make me crazy in short order. In SoCal you are nothing more than a very tiny little fish in a huge ocean of people.

For me I'd probably live outside the huge mass of people in some smaller town. So I'd have to drive a bit to get to where the action is. In the end I'd probably stay in the small town most of the time, which means I might as well stay where I am and avoid all the hassles of living in CA. Airplane tickets are much cheaper than the cost of living in SoCal.

Equally tempting to me is Colorado. I love it there, it's so beautiful, but that's a whole other story.