Californization

I’ve been here in California for over six years now. It’s kind of hard to believe, and it is a record for me. Occasionally, I’ve contemplated moving elsewhere where traffic and prices aren’t quite as manic as they are here. I start looking at jobs and housing prices and learn all I can from afar and sometimes even go visit the places to check them out.

 

What I learned was:

The desert sucks.

Humidity sucks more.

If there is no ocean within a half day’s drive, it’s out of the running.

If more than half the male population is named “Bubba” or “Junior” forget about it.

If it requires me to own a snow shovel, I’m not interested.

Despite the crazy housing prices, the $6 per pound bacon, the million dollar gallon of gas, the traffic, the people everywhere, the insane politics, and the tax upon tax, I just can’t think of anyplace I’d rather live than California. I think I’ve become an official Californian.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
~Edward Abbey

Published on: May 11, 2006