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"Ok, cool. What part of CA? I was there for the first time this past March. My boyfriend is from Irvine, basically. We went to LA and more or less drove along the coast from just north of SF to Tijuana. It was gorgeous. I'd like to go back. I think maybe the parts of me that are Florida and the parts of me that are sick of NYC could flourish in N.CA. That might be nice."
Norcal isn't a terrible place to live. It's beautiful for sure but the people are a bit more difficult to connect with than in other parts of CA.
I'm from Santa Rosa originally. Sonoma County... the less ritzy wine country. It's an area famous for it's dairy and chickens. Hoity toity restaurants advertise that they have Petaluma chickens. heh. Oh and school field trips sometimes took us to farms with cows. Milking cows is an amusing thing, even for a 5 year old.
I'm pretty sick of being here. I had no friends to speak of growing up and have had a pretty hard time making friends while I've lived in NorCal. I moved to San Diego for awhile and had no issues making friends or finding people willing to leave their house and get out and do stuff. I've known people who moved up here for better paying jobs (SoCal pays dick in comparison), only to move away because of the people.
So I'm ready to go somewhere else...
Granted, San Jose isn't that bad. I might have a hard time connecting with other people to the point they're willing to put the energy into actually hanging out with me, but there is a fair amount of stuff to do here and living a block outside downtown has it's perks.
But S CA is just soooooo hoooooooot! And fake and/or Military.
Huh...the people thing I understand, it's hard to get people to come do stuff in NYC. Like, for instance, I am loathe to go to any other part of Brooklyn from where I live. Or to go to the Upper East Side or (god forbid) the UWS b/c it takes me like, an hour and a half to get there by subway.
Whoa, San Jose is super far north! I kinda liked but kinda didn't like San Francisco. There was something wrong with it, I felt like more than just the squatter punks, that didn't make up for the Victorian houses and cedars and fog. But I don't know what.
I'm not a big fan of SF. It smells like pee. There are tons of towns/cities with beautiful victorian houses... no need to be in SF to enjoy them.:] I dunno, beyond a few kewl museums and the russian bakeries... I don't have any real reason to go to SF.
San Jose is about 50 miles south of SF. It's a ghetto city but they're working to fix it up.
People just work too much here. I'm guessing it's like that in NYC too. Anywhere where rent is super expensive, it seems like people just don't get out as much or are as willing to go anywhere that's not close by.
It gets hot up here too. The area that I'm from gets hotter than socal. 110 in the summer some days. Austin gets hot like that too. So no matter where I go... it's gonna be hot for part of the year. Heh. SF is the exception because of it being near the water.
I didn't really experience much of the "fakeness" when I lived in SoCal. I guess I saw it some when I went out on the weekends but it didn't really affect me because I didn't spend time with those kinds of people. SoCal is pretty diverse so it's easy to avoid stuff you don't like (at least it was for me).
I loved living in San Diego. I lived right next to Lake Hodges so my roomie and I would hike around the lake.
I thought it was cool that we could go hiking in woodsy kind of stuff right in the middle of LA. There was mustard all around and when we got to the little pond at the top of the hike, I said, "You guys, it smells like McDonalds...OH! The mustard!!"
Yeah, people work a ton in NYC, though I've been lucky to find a job where I can work four days a week and totally bank (massage therapy), though even that's working a lot. That's up to 20 hour long massages per week which can be wearing. But it enables me to save really easily and do things like take off 6 weeks to go to Brazil and Mexico. Or save as much as possible and move to Spain, which is what I'm doing in less than two months! *gasp*
I'm from Florida so am always desperately trying to escape the heat.
Gotcha. I've never been to Florida. It's not really on my list of places to see.
You are moving to Spain, eh? Why for? What are you going to do there?
I don't have allergies like a lot of other people but mustard flowers are my kryptonite. SOnoma County will have fields full of the stuff and I just remember my asthma being a major issue during those months.
One of the reasons I enjoyed living in SoCal (besides getting to be social somewhere other than online for the first time in my life) was that an hour each direction to me to somewhere different. There was the ocean, mountains, desert, mexico, etc. It was kewl.
I did miss the Redwoods though. My friend and I are planning on doing a mini-road trip up to the Avenue of Giants just to see the big ass redwoods up there.
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No, Florida's not all that exciting. Well, there are parts of it that are fantastic, natural Florida is quite beautiful in a hot, low grass sort of way. Scrub land, and the state tree is the royal palm.
Spain was chosen for two reasons, actually. I've been wanting to move to another country for several years now, at first I thought maybe Canada (massage school, I'm a massage therapist, but I'd love to go back and do more focused learning on assessment and medical techniques), then Central or South America as I'm learning Spanish and have friends in Argentina and family of friends in Colombia. But now, I have a boyfriend who lives in London and so Spain is the obvious choice. I'll just be going there for three month chunks, coming in and going on what amounts to a tourist visa. I can't wait to travel around Europe and get better at Spanish!!
Oh gosh, yeah, I've heard that about SoCal. That's what my boyfriend liked growing up there. He used to surf all the time and also go hunting and camping with his uncle.
We didn't get to go to the Avenue of the Giants, but I did see Muir Woods, which was beautiful. I'd love to live in that area. It's funny, I just had a client yesterday who was from SF and when I said I wasn't sure what I thought of it, she was like, "Oh no! Why!" and I explained about the squatter punks that turned me off of the place.
So you're still in SoCal right now, right? When do you think you'll make it over to Texas? I can't remember whether my friend lives in Dallas or Austin, I think Dallas. Well, I use the term "Friend" loosely.
Norcal isn't a terrible place to live. It's beautiful for sure but the people are a bit more difficult to connect with than in other parts of CA.
I'm from Santa Rosa originally. Sonoma County... the less ritzy wine country. It's an area famous for it's dairy and chickens. Hoity toity restaurants advertise that they have Petaluma chickens. heh. Oh and school field trips sometimes took us to farms with cows. Milking cows is an amusing thing, even for a 5 year old.
I'm pretty sick of being here. I had no friends to speak of growing up and have had a pretty hard time making friends while I've lived in NorCal. I moved to San Diego for awhile and had no issues making friends or finding people willing to leave their house and get out and do stuff. I've known people who moved up here for better paying jobs (SoCal pays dick in comparison), only to move away because of the people.
So I'm ready to go somewhere else...
Granted, San Jose isn't that bad. I might have a hard time connecting with other people to the point they're willing to put the energy into actually hanging out with me, but there is a fair amount of stuff to do here and living a block outside downtown has it's perks.
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Huh...the people thing I understand, it's hard to get people to come do stuff in NYC. Like, for instance, I am loathe to go to any other part of Brooklyn from where I live. Or to go to the Upper East Side or (god forbid) the UWS b/c it takes me like, an hour and a half to get there by subway.
Whoa, San Jose is super far north! I kinda liked but kinda didn't like San Francisco. There was something wrong with it, I felt like more than just the squatter punks, that didn't make up for the Victorian houses and cedars and fog. But I don't know what.
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San Jose is about 50 miles south of SF. It's a ghetto city but they're working to fix it up.
People just work too much here. I'm guessing it's like that in NYC too. Anywhere where rent is super expensive, it seems like people just don't get out as much or are as willing to go anywhere that's not close by.
It gets hot up here too. The area that I'm from gets hotter than socal. 110 in the summer some days. Austin gets hot like that too. So no matter where I go... it's gonna be hot for part of the year. Heh. SF is the exception because of it being near the water.
I didn't really experience much of the "fakeness" when I lived in SoCal. I guess I saw it some when I went out on the weekends but it didn't really affect me because I didn't spend time with those kinds of people. SoCal is pretty diverse so it's easy to avoid stuff you don't like (at least it was for me).
I loved living in San Diego. I lived right next to Lake Hodges so my roomie and I would hike around the lake.
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Yeah, people work a ton in NYC, though I've been lucky to find a job where I can work four days a week and totally bank (massage therapy), though even that's working a lot. That's up to 20 hour long massages per week which can be wearing. But it enables me to save really easily and do things like take off 6 weeks to go to Brazil and Mexico. Or save as much as possible and move to Spain, which is what I'm doing in less than two months! *gasp*
I'm from Florida so am always desperately trying to escape the heat.
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You are moving to Spain, eh? Why for? What are you going to do there?
I don't have allergies like a lot of other people but mustard flowers are my kryptonite. SOnoma County will have fields full of the stuff and I just remember my asthma being a major issue during those months.
One of the reasons I enjoyed living in SoCal (besides getting to be social somewhere other than online for the first time in my life) was that an hour each direction to me to somewhere different. There was the ocean, mountains, desert, mexico, etc. It was kewl.
I did miss the Redwoods though. My friend and I are planning on doing a mini-road trip up to the Avenue of Giants just to see the big ass redwoods up there.
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No, Florida's not all that exciting. Well, there are parts of it that are fantastic, natural Florida is quite beautiful in a hot, low grass sort of way. Scrub land, and the state tree is the royal palm.
Spain was chosen for two reasons, actually. I've been wanting to move to another country for several years now, at first I thought maybe Canada (massage school, I'm a massage therapist, but I'd love to go back and do more focused learning on assessment and medical techniques), then Central or South America as I'm learning Spanish and have friends in Argentina and family of friends in Colombia.
But now, I have a boyfriend who lives in London and so Spain is the obvious choice. I'll just be going there for three month chunks, coming in and going on what amounts to a tourist visa. I can't wait to travel around Europe and get better at Spanish!!
Oh gosh, yeah, I've heard that about SoCal. That's what my boyfriend liked growing up there. He used to surf all the time and also go hunting and camping with his uncle.
We didn't get to go to the Avenue of the Giants, but I did see Muir Woods, which was beautiful. I'd love to live in that area. It's funny, I just had a client yesterday who was from SF and when I said I wasn't sure what I thought of it, she was like, "Oh no! Why!" and I explained about the squatter punks that turned me off of the place.
So you're still in SoCal right now, right? When do you think you'll make it over to Texas? I can't remember whether my friend lives in Dallas or Austin, I think Dallas. Well, I use the term "Friend" loosely.
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