"Who would want to live in California?"
Me. I would like to live there.
I love that someone “nayed” my personal preferences.
-“I love cheesecake!”
-“No you don’t!”
Who would want to live in California?
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I’m a tenured full prof, my spouse is a physician, and we have a net worth of approx. $5 million (from savings, investments, inheritances). I’d live in California and could afford to live pretty well there. But it’s not really my style — I’m a Boston/New England kinda person. I like four seasons, enjoying skiing in the winter, live in an old house, drive a Subaru, and am not a fashionista. Cali just isn’t my scene.
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I’m a tenured full prof, my spouse is a physician, and we have a net worth of approx. $5 million (from savings, investments, inheritances). I’d live in California and could afford to live pretty well there. But it’s not really my style — I’m a Boston/New England kinda person. I like four seasons, enjoying skiing in the winter, live in an old house, drive a Subaru, and am not a fashionista. Cali just isn’t my scene.
All perfectly reasonable, but for the record California also has skiing, old houses and Subarus
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"Who would want to live in California?"
Me. I would like to live there.I love that someone “nayed” my personal preferences.
-“I love cheesecake!”
-“No you don’t!”And now more “nays” of personal preferences.
Y’all are aware that different people like different things, yes?
I personally would want to live in California again instead of the farm state where I now work.
That’s my preference. Yours may we’ll be different.
De gustibus non disputandum est
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I’m a tenured full prof, my spouse is a physician, and we have a net worth of approx. $5 million (from savings, investments, inheritances). I’d live in California and could afford to live pretty well there. But it’s not really my style — I’m a Boston/New England kinda person. I like four seasons, enjoying skiing in the winter, live in an old house, drive a Subaru, and am not a fashionista. Cali just isn’t my scene.
This just makes no sense. There is no good (downhill) skiing in New England, there is in California. There are plenty of old houses in California, granted they are more expensive than in New England, but you're rich. Suburus are ubiquitous up and down the West Coast, far more so than in the Northeast. And the California fashion aesthetic is shorts, a hoodie, and Rainbows down South; more of a fleece thing in SF. Quite literally the only thing you said that actually fits California is the four seasons thing.
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Let’s break this down for Shae who seems just smart enough to get confused by simple truths.
Different preferences -> different lives -> different cities
No, it's mostly not a matter of different preferences but rather different opportunities. Most people who live in the sticks have low levels of educational attainment and hence do not have lots of good options for good jobs elsewhere, while most people with lots of education and hence lots of good employment options do not want to live in the freakin' sticks. Sure, every once in a while a hotshot PhD or elite MBA from SF might actually choose to move to rural Mississippi, but rarely would you find a current resident of rural Mississippi who could realistically relocate to Santa Barbara. The sticks stink because people who can avoid 'em do so.
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I am a liberal who would prefer to live in rural Mississippi over California. Do you guys really organize your whole life over whether you are a moderate liberal or moderate conservative?
Yeah, it’s ridiculous. I don’t need to live among people who agree with me. I can find friends anywhere, and idgaf about how random strangers vote.
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For those of you who hate Republicans so much, California has more of them in terms of numbers of people than most of the other states in the country. Somehow you manage to get along. Where was Ronald Reagan from again??? My suspicion is the politics argument is a red herring.