your reasons that california isn't that cool

theres always some thread, some kid wanting to leave where they are to move to california.. but i'm tellin' ya.. it's not like you think it is. it's expensive. people aren't all hippies. my brain hurts.. help me out here.. what else about cali isn't that cool?

The middle of it's filled with rednecks.

The Death of Hippie March was commemorated back in October, 1967, at the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco.

I guess, most of us here are 41 years late. :rainbow:

massive air pollution, high prices, high taxes, rampant consumerism...

the people are bitchie.

NO, YOUR DREAMS WILL NOT COME TRUE HERE.
its NOT full of famous ppl.
but... its full of bumbs, so that must tell you that we have a high unemployment rate.

too much traffic in the parts I like. Too expensive in the parts I like. Or there isnt any work in the parts I like.

Rampant consumerism.. now that one is understated! lol... I havent lived in California long, but the gigantic shopping complex's and 2 story McDonalds are among the first things I noticed! Not to mention the mountains of junk mail I get trying to sell me something. They are also pretty superficial here I guess... I think "OK" magazine must have some sort of new-comer alarm, because they have been sending me that god aweful shit rag since I moved here!
The cost of living here is pretty high as well.. Im used to hawaii prices, but, still, for the mainland - this place has some outrageous rent!
Oh and one more thing... I havent had telemarketers - specifically the cops or the fire department calling me asking for money this much in my life - I am grateful for the cops and the fire department doing their jobs... I do believe that they should be supported, (I will even donate 10 bux now and again) however, I pay my taxes.. I have done my due dilligence. Its up to them to better their work situation!! - if they were calling to invite me to march with them to the "Govenators" address, and picket/protest or whatever in demanding better pay, or better gear... I might consider it, however until then... they need to leave me the hell alone!!

Mad amounts of plastic surgery and an unrealistic image to live up to, traffic, pressure to have the newest bag, clothes etc. people maitaining these things by living off their credit cards and credit being percieved as cash.
Unreal home prices...my mom lives in a modest neighborhood in a 3 bedroom home, 1/4-1/2 acre in North County San Diego and her home is worth about 750,000. I can't see us affording a home like that anytime soon.

Although, California, particularly in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, was one of the places where the hippie scene originated in the 60's as an outgrowth of the Beat Generation of the 50's, California today is nowhere near what it was from back in the 60's.


Although, relics from that era can still be found here and there, California sadly, today, is no longer that same California, that was immortalized by the Mama's and the Papas, in California Dreaming, or even that place called San Francisco, in "Flowers in Her Hair" sang about by Barry McGuire.

:goin' to california with an achin'... in my heart.."

gonna have an ache in your wallet!