California-Love it Or Hate It?

Question

Please include a couple of reasons, such as taxes, Hollywood etc. etc...

Michele Feelwell, I would shoot myself in that situation...

Oh yeah, for me, HATE IT! (Most of this excludes the area that would be Jefferson state if that passed) High taxes, Hollywood and their total lack of morals, acceptance of sodomy and gays (which are basically anti-Bible/God) and, VALLEY GIRLS! Like, like, like...

Answer 1

Great for a holiday (good weather, nice people), but I think I'd probably hate to live there (too busy, earthquake due soon).

Answer 2

California Uber Alles...because the weather is great, the food is delicious and cheap (thank God for Mexicans), the men and women are hot and the surf's amazing :-)

Hollywood is not the glamour capital you think it is. It's really run down and sleazy (but that's why I like it). Also, Los Angeles is not the b all and end all of California - if you go up to North Cali you'll find it's a lot different.

Answer 3

In some places, I love it. In others (mainly Hollywood places and the coastline) I hate it.

The good old, reality-land California comes from the true woodlands and mountains. The big cities and stuff are a load of bollocks.

Answer 4

I LIVE in California with my 2 gay dads and we are accepted because Hollywood has the same morals (or lack of them) that WE do!

I am having an affair with Ahmed Al Akbarri (Sean) and Dr. Feelgood who is also gay is our friend. Where ELSE but in CA can this go on and be every day stuff?

Luv it!

Answer 5

Depends on which part of California you are referring to. LA? nice in very small amounts. San Francisco? I LOVE San Francisco. and the bay area. The people there are soooooooo friendly and open and accepting. the rest of the world could learn a lot about the Christian values of tolerance and love from San Francisco. Sacremento? sucks!

Answer 6

I was born in California, and lived there until I was 21. But I'm not sure if I would ever go there for anymore than a short visit.

Answer 7

Love it! A state capable of not hating gays and researching stem cells, and protecting the environment. Wow...only in America.

Its also warm here and the girls look good in bikinis.

Answer 8

California is the best state- other than overpopulated cities and dangerous cities...and it also depends where you live in California...if you live in Southern California you get:
best weather
beaches
surf
hollywood nightlife
knotts berry farm
disneyland
and ppl here are just tyte
can u guess where i live>?

Answer 9

CALIFORNIA!!!! I love Cali. Even though I am a NY residence I believe I was suppose to be born in California.......it beautiful their. Although i would miss the autumn. That is my favorite time of year.

Answer 10

Excuse me but..how about some middle ground here. We could all do with a little less extremes, don't you think?

I like California, I love my husband.

I was born and raised in Southern Cal and only tourists go to Hollywood. The rest of us go to the beach, the desert, the mountains, the missions, the amusement parks, the museums, I even go on vacation to some of the resorts here because they are so inviting. We go camping, snowboarding, jetskiing, rock climbing, surfing, skateboarding, ice skating, roller skating, and are nuts for just about anything you can do on wheels, out of doors, in the water or up in the air.

My high school taught surfing and it's soccer team was undefeated for a dozen years in a row. My brother was a tennis pro before he was eighteen years old. He's now a real estate developer on the east coast with kids in college and kids in elementary school.

We have some of the greatest military bases in the world and some of the most patriotic citizens in the country. Because we support our troops, who are our families, we grieve when any soldier dies because his family is a member of our family.


We have a stellar university system, unparalelled in the world for research as well as for the encouragement and nourisment of some of the most brilliant minds on the planet.

We gripe about our taxes the way others do, we have a few more millionaires than some other states and a few less millionaires than others.

We have awesome athletes. We have children who actually like to go outside and play.

We have gangs and crime and divorce and corrupt politicians.

We have more than our share of beautiful people. And no, plastic surgery may have done that for some but Californians are, by far have a higher ratio of good looking people than any other state in the country, except maybe Hawaii. I spent about 20 years traveling on business and I have seen people. Take it from me, the Beach Boys had it right.

As an American first I would like to see California be what we used to call one of the states, before the nation solidified and stood as one, in support of itself and it's people, in the name of it's own best interest, first, and in the interest of the global community second.

California has been the portal for many immigrants to this country, legal and illegal, though we've not hosted quite as many as Ellis Island, Texas or Florida. As bitterly discussed as this issue has been to some of our citizens, who would slam shut the borders (and I do understand their positions) it has been the salvation for so many desparate individuals that I stand neither for nor against either side. I know how terribly this country would falter if we lost our silent population for even a day. A year would see most millionaires humbled and most of the rest of us just about the same.

I think our jails are too full and so does our governor, but the answer isn't to increase the size or number of the jails. The answer is to reform the system which made certain acts a crime. Don't take the low road and blast back with accusing me of wanting to be more lenient on pedophiles or serial killers. You and I both know there are people sitting in prison for protesting a war that was declared unjust by even the hardest right winger a million years ago, for smoking pot, for hiding their children from violent spouses, for killing someone who was trying to kill them and for defending themselves or their families or their property at the cost of another human's life. Taking a life isn't right, but perspective is a wonderfully useful thing in determining the fate of the unfortunates involved in all of the above instances.

I live in Northern California now and the schools allow kids to take off for snow days, and make it up in the summer. Skiing is not only taught but tutored, encouraged and kids are put on skiis almost as soon as they can walk. Hiking, biking and boating in some of the thinnest and clearest air in the world, that's what we do here in the Sierras. Same state, same story, everyone loves to be outside.

I am a Californian and I like my state. Enough other people did too, enough so that our real estate boomed and our business base exploded. We grew so fast that we couldn't keep up with ourselves and now, after having owned and sold many homes in my life, I can't see buying back here. I don't blame California or the greed of the people who own it. I blame the outsiders who based their companies here a generation ago, inflated the price of land and then left when it got too expensive for their employees to live here.

Good for us. Some are rich enough so that it doesn't matter. Some of us are so poor it doesn't really matter where we live and some of us have decided to live for today, in a place that we love, doing a job we can be proud of, and every now and then, we are allowed the privilege of answering a question like this one, honestly and with the integrity that most of the people in this country possess, despite what the pundits on the evening news might have the world and our citizens otherwise believe.