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@katbyter Lifelong Californian, here. Hollywood is gross and crowded. LA in general is. I avoid LA like the plague. Some people, believe it or not, love LA. I think they’re lying and secretly are hoping to get discovered or some nonsense.
What? That dense cemented over hundreds of miles along US highway 1 of houses and stores are actual individual cities and not one huge mega city thing?
@Ignorant@therealjrn If by swell, you mean the city I live in has a crime rate higher than the city that’s nicknamed Stabba Ana … uh, yes?
(My part of town is actually okay, but the other parts, not so well. That probably was the reason why I was able to afford my house in the first place. Even now, it’s relatively “cheap” in the $600k range.)
La Jolla maybe? Encinitas? If I were fabulously wealthy I’d have a place around there. If I were moderately wealthy I’d have a place in Rancho Bernardo. I love Poway, but they’re losing their strip mall of thrift shops. Basically, I’ve only ever been in San Diego suburbs and clearly it shows.
@mossygreen Yes Encinitas is beautiful!! A friend of mine just sold her house there. She was up in the mountains with an amazing view. Not everywhere there though requires your own personal bank, although likely it requires a two income family. She and her mother-in-law had, together, bought a house there. Mother-in-law was retired without a pension and without a huge savings account. My friend is a nurse supervisor.
@mossygreen our place is about 15 minutes from Poway. I like it here in rural San Diego county: we’ve raised pigs and had pet llamas. (Right now we have laying hens.) Decent schools and friendly neighbors and close to “a city” but very rural. Can’t beat the weather. And an hour from the beach, an hour to the desert, an hour to the snow!
Wait, what? There are cities in Cali that aren’t covered in human feces and drug paraphernalia, and lined with vagrants? Y’know, when the state isn’t literally on fire.
Some of the areas north of San Francisco are really pretty, some of the area around Monterey (and their aquarium is amazing), I’d choose some of the many towns along highway 1, especially in the areas where it is a cliff to the ocean and tons of seals hanging around. Once it hits that extended multiple city cement strip no thanks.
I chose San Jose (because I think it’s the coolest city from the options), but I’m particularly biased towards Anaheim (where I grew up). Being able to see the fireworks at Toon Town from my patio was really cool, plus my kindergarten teacher was “friends with Snow White.” BIG WINK
Really, the answer for me has to be:
San Diego (in the 1960 - 70’s).
It was amazing. Incredible weather, places not crowded, traffic acceptable, driving on I-5, 8 or 395 at 80 mph expected, no bums, beaches clean, 4-finger lids still $12, Love-ins at Mission bay, tacos were 10 for $1 at a place I knew, Santee swap meet was huge, Tijuana just a short drive (purchase Oscar Pidilla insurance for your car), TJ was still safe to go visit, the dirt-bike trails around University City went on for so many miles!, The weather needs mentioned again, the list goes on…
I haven’t lived in California for 30 years. Last I visited was probably 10 years ago. First place goes to Half Moon Bay. Second, Grass Valley/Nevada City. Third is the lovely Laguna Beach. Fourth goes to Coronado.
As far as the big cities, I’ll take San Francisco over LA and San Diego.
If you can afford it, it’s my hometown of San Luis Obispo. Relatively close to everything in Cali being in the central area. Clean, quiet, safe, and beautiful with always perfect weather and access multiple beaches that are minutes away and tons of hiking with fish in Morro Bay and sandboarding in Los Osos sand dunes. Everything in-town is within biking distance so little need for a car. As a bonus, so far impervious to economic decline.
@goldnectar SLO-town is magical. Also, primo wineries that rival Napa/Sonoma within easy distance. It’s where I’m headed if I have to jettison from the Bay Area.
Santa Cruz
@kittykat9180 Santa Cruz would be awesome if it weren’t for all the damn vampires.
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
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@shahnm
THIS ^^^ SO MUCH THIS! HAHAHAHAHAHA
@shahnm @therealjrn
tsk - judgey …
@shahnm This comment is confusing. Is it funny because they’re all equally good or bad so there cannot be a “best?” What am I missing?
@goldnectar @shahnm You sound like you’re from California
Cities? To hell with them. If you’re in California, go out in the desert or off in the Yosemite back country or up in the redwoods.
@lljk Or better yet, any other state.
Furnace Creek
Hollywood? I don’t know. Never been to any, so can’t say.
@katbyter You mean HollyWeird?
@katbyter Lifelong Californian, here. Hollywood is gross and crowded. LA in general is. I avoid LA like the plague. Some people, believe it or not, love LA. I think they’re lying and secretly are hoping to get discovered or some nonsense.
Truckee, maybe. It doesn’t have the typical CA vibe and it is a beautiful area!
In The Wizard, Jimmy wanted to go to California and he played in the big Nintendo commercial there. I wanna go to whatever city that was.
Napa Valley, for obvious hic… reasons.
What? That dense cemented over hundreds of miles along US highway 1 of houses and stores are actual individual cities and not one huge mega city thing?
@Kidsandliz you must be referring to the Santa Barbara-LA-San Diego metroglut. That’s not California.
@stolicat Yes I am. I think it is a giant parking lot. Yes?
Monterey is beautiful. Also Sacramento.
@Ignorant aw, sorry for laughing so much Ig. You too @narfcake. I’m sure you both live in swell areas.
@Ignorant @therealjrn If by swell, you mean the city I live in has a crime rate higher than the city that’s nicknamed Stabba Ana … uh, yes?
(My part of town is actually okay, but the other parts, not so well. That probably was the reason why I was able to afford my house in the first place. Even now, it’s relatively “cheap” in the $600k range.)
@Ignorant That’s how I feel whenever someone makes a Florida or “Florida Man” joke.
29 Palms
Or maybe Tehachapi
Lone Pine?
/image Ansel Adams Lone Pine
Or …
Bakersfield
/youtube Girl With The Far-away Eyes
@f00l Well, I declare…
@f00l Bakersfield ear worm:
La Jolla maybe? Encinitas? If I were fabulously wealthy I’d have a place around there. If I were moderately wealthy I’d have a place in Rancho Bernardo. I love Poway, but they’re losing their strip mall of thrift shops. Basically, I’ve only ever been in San Diego suburbs and clearly it shows.
@mossygreen Yes Encinitas is beautiful!! A friend of mine just sold her house there. She was up in the mountains with an amazing view. Not everywhere there though requires your own personal bank, although likely it requires a two income family. She and her mother-in-law had, together, bought a house there. Mother-in-law was retired without a pension and without a huge savings account. My friend is a nurse supervisor.
@mossygreen our place is about 15 minutes from Poway. I like it here in rural San Diego county: we’ve raised pigs and had pet llamas. (Right now we have laying hens.) Decent schools and friendly neighbors and close to “a city” but very rural. Can’t beat the weather. And an hour from the beach, an hour to the desert, an hour to the snow!
@2palms SO JEALOUS.
@mossygreen I live in Lakeside. We also have 80 acres up in Ranchita.
Georgetown
Albion
Montara
La Honda
Markleeville (before it burnt down and again after it is rebuilt)
Portland
I wish I knew the way to a now vanished California…
/youtube do you know the way to San Jose
Monterey
Wait, what? There are cities in Cali that aren’t covered in human feces and drug paraphernalia, and lined with vagrants? Y’know, when the state isn’t literally on fire.
@sjk3 There’s only one City that’s like that.
there isn’t one in California anymore.
Mountain View.
To me, Oakland is the best. Born & raised!!
You mean the state where they tax people so much they’re stuck on the streets and they literally legislate people out of work?
/giphy hard pass
Some of the areas north of San Francisco are really pretty, some of the area around Monterey (and their aquarium is amazing), I’d choose some of the many towns along highway 1, especially in the areas where it is a cliff to the ocean and tons of seals hanging around. Once it hits that extended multiple city cement strip no thanks.
I said San Diego because of what it’s translation is.
I chose San Jose (because I think it’s the coolest city from the options), but I’m particularly biased towards Anaheim (where I grew up). Being able to see the fireworks at Toon Town from my patio was really cool, plus my kindergarten teacher was “friends with Snow White.” BIG WINK
@PeachWise Your kindergarten teacher was a dwarf?
@PeachWise @shahnm I hope it wasn’t Touchy.
I’ve never been to California, but I’ve wanted to go to the San Diego zoo ever since I was a little kid and my parents went there without me.
@DennisG2014 CHILD ABUSE
The 5 Cities Metropolitan Area.
/giphy Five Cities Metropolitan Area
Really, the answer for me has to be:
San Diego (in the 1960 - 70’s).
It was amazing. Incredible weather, places not crowded, traffic acceptable, driving on I-5, 8 or 395 at 80 mph expected, no bums, beaches clean, 4-finger lids still $12, Love-ins at Mission bay, tacos were 10 for $1 at a place I knew, Santee swap meet was huge, Tijuana just a short drive (purchase Oscar Pidilla insurance for your car), TJ was still safe to go visit, the dirt-bike trails around University City went on for so many miles!, The weather needs mentioned again, the list goes on…
Who’s down with Modesto?? Home of “American Grafiti”? Birthplace of George Lucas? Anyone? Anyone?
@xenophod That movie has such a good soundtrack.
I haven’t lived in California for 30 years. Last I visited was probably 10 years ago. First place goes to Half Moon Bay. Second, Grass Valley/Nevada City. Third is the lovely Laguna Beach. Fourth goes to Coronado.
As far as the big cities, I’ll take San Francisco over LA and San Diego.
Never been to California.
@Hrairoo I’ve never been to Spain.
I’ve never been to Texas
@Hrairoo
I’ve been to Oklahoma.
@f00l @Hrairoo
But you’ve been to Oklahoma you say? They tell me I was born there, but I really don’t remember.
@Hrairoo @therealjrn
I suppose I could have been born there. If my parents lied to me and the birth certificate was faked.
But I really don’t remember.
@Hrairoo @therealjrn
But I kind of like the music.
@lisaviolet
@lisaviolet @therealjrn
Arizona? Oklahoma?
Still don’t remember.
What does it matter?
/youtube taking it easy
/image Winslow Arizona
@f00l @therealjrn
For the kids in the room…
I do not believe I have ever heard of any of those towns or cities or villages in California Township, MI. Maybe they are in shitty Ohio.
If you can afford it, it’s my hometown of San Luis Obispo. Relatively close to everything in Cali being in the central area. Clean, quiet, safe, and beautiful with always perfect weather and access multiple beaches that are minutes away and tons of hiking with fish in Morro Bay and sandboarding in Los Osos sand dunes. Everything in-town is within biking distance so little need for a car. As a bonus, so far impervious to economic decline.
@goldnectar SLO-town is magical. Also, primo wineries that rival Napa/Sonoma within easy distance. It’s where I’m headed if I have to jettison from the Bay Area.
Carmel by the sea.
I wish they all could be California girls.
/giphy California
Etna
/image Hotel California
/youtube Hotel California
Might as well like it, since I checked out some time ago, but can’t figure out how to actually leave.
@lisaviolet Pacific Ocean, Mavericks break at Pillar Point
@stolicat I’d probably drown.