You make over $250,000 a year and still can't afford a house.
It's sprinkling outside, so you leave for work an hour early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.
Your child's third grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named Breeze.
You've been to a baby shower for an infant who has two mothers and a sperm donor.
You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown, and can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.
You know which restaurant serves the freshest arugula.
A really great parking space can move you to tears.
Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.
Your hairdresser is straight, your plumber is gay, and your Mary Kay rep is a guy in drag.
Over 85% of the cities, towns, and streets start with San, Los, El, La, Santa, De La, or De Los.
Two overcast days in a row drive you mad.
A family of four owns six vehicles.
Everyone who lives here knows that hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and snowstorms are way worse than earthquakes, which are, after all, over almost as soon as you realize what's happening.
Even if the store is across the street, you drive there.
------------------ Si Allen #562 La Mirada, CA. USA (714) 521-4810 ICQ # 330407 "SignPainters do It with Longer Strokes!"
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Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
That's the bad stuff. I want to hear about the good stuff like Killings and riots and gang fights and hollywood scandals. Geez I'm noorotik, don't leave me hangin' Yer just a trouble maker Si. Thas'it.....................CrazyJack
------------------ Jack Wills Studio Design Works 6255 Brookside Circle Rocklin, CA 95677 writer@quiknet.com
Posted by Bob Ficucell (Member # 1460) on :
Si, Ain't it great to live here ?
------------------ Bob Ficucell Signworks Canoga Park, CA, jeanroda@earthlink.net
Posted by Louis A Lazarus (Member # 763) on :
Si,
Those really are the good points. But, give it a few months...it will get even "better" thanks to our brilliant legislators and political representatives.
You just gotta love a state who calls "illegal aliens"...."undocumented workers". Isn't that just priceless...but after all what's in a name, eh?
------------------ Louis A. Lazarus Milt's Sign Service, Inc. 20 So. Linden Ave. #5B 650-588-0490 fontking1a@aol.com
Posted by Pierre St.Marie (Member # 1462) on :
Hey, Si! How about we start a commune for displaced Kalifornian signguys up here? I got lotsa land and lotsa tents! You bring the beer.
------------------ St.Marie Graphics & Makin' Tracks Sound Studio Kalispell, Montana stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com 800 735-8026 We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
Posted by VICTORGEORGIOU (Member # 474) on :
When I moved out here, northern California, 15 years ago, it was like moving to a foreign country, the attitudes are so different from the Midwest.
Whatever the disease is, it's contagious. It's a work hard/play hard thing that is hard to describe. People don't let work get in the way of living. They work hard, but on their own terms, if that makes any sense. I love it out here. Vic G
------------------ Victor Georgiou AnchorBlanks.com Jack Wills Clipart CD's & FONTS Designer Sign Blanks
Posted by David Fisher (Member # 107) on :
All this time I thought L.A. Story was fiction. Sounds like it was a documentary after all. Make mine a double double decaf. David
------------------ David Fisher D.A. & P.M. Fisher Signwriting Brisbane Australia da_pmf@yahoo.com
Posted by Tyler (Member # 2093) on :
Great, I will get to experience it all firsthand... I am headed out to LA for a week on July 5th for a little vacation
------------------ Tyler Malinky
A Step Above Signs Cleveland, Ohio 440.479.8129 440.842.1894 fax
www.astepabovesigns.com tmalinky@astepabovesigns.com or exmayors@aol.com
Posted by Corey Wine (Member # 1640) on :
& that's why I moved away. Been in the outskirts of Calgary, Alberta, Canada for 3 years now.......what a great change of pace. I don't feel like my heart is going to explode any more from the fast pace and the intimidation, competition not to mention pollution. Live in Garden Grove, CA (near Anaheim my whole life until I turned 29. Now I see more cows on my way into work than cars. We have the same stuff here...congestion, traffic, graffitti, pollution, crime, drugs....it's just on such a smaller scale. I heard a stat. in Cali. that 75% OF every high school 14 year old has brought a weapon to school at least once. Not necessarily to use but, for protection. My high school in Cali.(where Steve Martin graduated from) a year or 2 after I graduated, outlawed all hats. Buy a school baseball cap at the student store but, get suspended if you wear it because it is bound to offend someone. No shirts with logos like Nike because you know there is a Converse fan out there with a gun. My 6 year old daughter and my 6 week old daughter doesn't need to look forward to that.
Yep, California.......it's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
------------------ Corey Wine signCONCEPTS Airdrie, Alberta, Canada The ex-Californian Canadian signconcepts1@home.com
"I cooked a meatloaf recipe that I downloaded off of the internet. A day later, I got a stomach VIRUS....Coincidence?"
Posted by LazyEdna (Member # 266) on :
I lived in southern California for 5 years back in the early '70's. Back in those daze, the university cost $80 a semester for a full schedule, gas was 35 cents a gallon, and my rent for an old house in Santa Ana was $125 a month. Still, I got so tired of the same weather every day, and never seeing the sky, only that "cover" of gray in the day and red at night, and so many PEOPLE! When I moved to Utah after finally graduating from Cal State Fullerton, it was like being let out of a prison of a never changing environment of the same dull weather every day, and no connection with "nature" in any way shape or form. Utah had less than 1 million in population back then, and still hasn't topped 2 million 25 years later. California has more than 30 million. No wonder it has so many "social problems"... after all... no people, no problems. Sure, California has fabulous museums (the Getty), art galleries and very classy bars (none of which exist in Utah), and a variety of human cultures. Utah has AGRI-culture and everyone here is blonde or red haired, and very possibly related to at least half the people in the town. And sure, people here are all one religion, and intellectually limited. But hey, everywhere has its trade-offs. Oh yeah, and forget about good coffee here too! But I wouldn't live anywhere else... I rode my horse behind town yesterday, for two hours, in incredible red rock mountains, and not one human (besides me) anywhere out there. Bliss. LE
------------------ LazyEdna in RL known as Sara Straw from southern Utah 5 National Parks within 3 hours drive Red Rock Heaven
