Quote from blast19:
I feel no semblance of sadness for most people in Southern California...that's why I got the fuck out of there, it was turning into a giant shopping center. Crazy I tell you, CRAZY! :eek:
Your point is so true. California is full of idiots and assholes. I was no Gray Davis supporter, but that recall was a joke...his hands were tied like almost anyone else's would have been...but they leveraged it into a political circus to ostracize him.
Bakersfield to Barstow are shithole deserts and yet, $600k are the norm. It's amazing how stupid and greedy people can be...you can go to Palmdale(yes the skinheads and meth are the cities most famous attractions) and find people who commute to LA(2 hours or so) everyday so they can have bigger houses that cost them only $50k less...it let them afford that nice SUV that they spent the housing difference on and it eats its worth in gas every 2 years.
California truly has some of the most beautiful landscape in the country and the world(redwoods are unbelievable!), but the negatives are pretty heavy and luckily mostly in the southern part.
There's my rant...but yeah, I agree with you totally that at least people who lost their jobs in other parts of the country were losing real jobs and not just losing out on acting parts to Luke Perry!
Classic....skinheads and meth lol....desert shitholes lol....
CA does have its problems, if I were not a surfer I would definitely move from here...well I have family, friends, bands I play in as well as solid business contacts here too. Not to mention I do live in Malibu and pay 1350./mo. for a studio apartment 20 steps from the beach. It's not too bad really but when I consider that 1350. can pay the mortgage on a decent house in some states....it makes me want to quit surfing and maybe take up wakeboarding instead!
It's either that or buy a 1 + 1 mobile home in Paradise Cove for 400K plus space rent lol...at least right now, I don't know if prices are going to recede much in this high end market but home sales have totaled an average of around 300 units in Malibu for the past few years, closing this first quarter '07 there have been only 33 homes sold here according to an article in the local paper. However, they claim that the prices have held strong, and I haven't seen much of any kind of depreciation yet, from scanning through local RE ads. We shall see...
