Escape from Southern California

I left 23 years ago

No but I'm getting some pot tonight, maybe some Cush.

How do you feel about your decision, where did you go?

Everyone from Nevada to Arzona to New Mexico to Colorado to Texas can tell you that enough have left already.

We don't need anymore.

Left 9 years ago.

Moved to Hawaii - no explaination should be necessary. :)

Yeah there are a lot of Californians in Oregon. My parents moved her from SoCal in 1978. The economy here is shit but I seem to get by.

Going to LA next week!! So Xcited!

"Going to LA next week!! So Xcited"

always remember.... arrive on vacation leave on probation...

Californians (specifically southern Californians) tend to have a hard time getting along in other places. They are more abnoxious than the Irish on St Pattys and the Mexicans on Cinco de Mayo put together.

Most southern California residents do not realize how whiney and lazy they are. They act as if they are a gift to where ever they go. So when locals are assholes to them, the Californians tend to think it's just because everyone is jealous because they are from "SoCal" (Good God that is GAY), but this is not the case. You are just assholes.

They tend to tick a lot of people off. Here in Colorado there is a t-shirt you can get referencing this. I have also heard complaints from people who live in other states where Californians have moved.

Just a bad, snooty, self absorbed culture there, and that does not fly well in the rest of the nation. Well, except maybe in Dallas. LOL

But I'm cool with northern Californians.

i left in 1962 and don't go back too often.

"Just a bad, snooty, self absorbed culture there, and that does not fly well in the rest of the nation. Well, except maybe in Dallas."

In my own experience, it's usually the wealthy S. Californians that are like that, everyone else, except those on public assistance, have to work very hard here just to spin your wheels and get nowhere....

but now the economy here is making it impossible to support yourself no matter how hard you work, or how much you scrimp and save...

Went to SD for 3 months in the USN. They tried to make me stay. Housing cost way too much.

Recently built a house in Missouri. Three of the workers had just moved in from SoCal. And i'm in a small town of only 5000.

"Three of the workers had just moved in from SoCal. And i'm in a small town of only 5000."

I have a feeling there are lots of stories like that..

I'm taking the wife and kids to Disneyland in 2 days. I hope nothing happens until after we leave.

Call them roaches.

They are permeating through the border into Baja California.

And you're correct. They think they are a gift to us, snotty motherfunkers. They arrive with no money at all, and think we should give them hand-outs.

Poor bastards.

Washington State had a big influx of Californians move here in the late 90's to present day. Please no more !!!!!!!!!! For the love of god NO MORE!!!!!!

Oh and it's cold and rainy 7 months out of the year here and the economy is for shit no jobs anywhere!!!

I moved to Oregon in 2005, nobody wants us. it's impossible to conceal where you're from they will ask "where did you go to high school", or you will mis-pronounce something, or you will be ignorant of some local fact and the cover is blown.

they say we are the self absorbed ones, but you will constantly hear "i've been an oregon native all my life" --sounds pretty much the same, as well as contains retarded redundant logic, find a way to make it work in so cal. I may be back one day.

also DO NOT move to the NW if you are a single male.

Then there's the impending eq??? shite...im so glad I don't live there!!! St Paddy's day tomorrow come...come...rejoice and all ye Californians join us here in celebration...hic...hic

left Azusa, Glendale, Los Angeles, Rainbow, Oceanside, Carlsbad in 2008. I will miss my homes.

I'm in Long Beach and our neighborhood has been selling well, essentially another mini-bubble fueled by government intervention. We bought our house before the boom and still have plenty of equity in our home. So we're selling this summer and hoping to move to either Dallas metro or Colorado.

Of course the weather and sheer beauty (I know other states are beautiful in their own way) of this state cannot be matched elsewhere, its not enough though to keep us here. We're a family of 5 and my hubby earns a great salary, but we still live paycheck to paycheck. With 3 kids, we're also very concerned about public education. We haven't ruled out moving to South Orange County or North San Diego county where houses are a bit better priced. Yet, with all the crazy taxes and fees, we'd be wise to move out of state ASAP.

I left LA in 2002 after 12 years. Home prices suck and 98.5% of the people suck. The most arrogant, narcissistic, cynical, self-important stupid fucks I have ever met in my life. The people there are not worth a bucket of warm piss. And I've been EVERYWHERE- NYC, Canada, Europe, Asia, you name it, and the people in SoCal are a waste of oxygen. It's really sad. Sorry to be such an ass, but I just have to call it like I see it.

I moved from LA to Dallas. Nothing compares with Cali geography, hardly anywhere in the world. I luv it.

You might like west Plano, very good school system and big bang for your buck housing-wise while Dallas is just minutes down the tollroad. $400k buys you a 3500 squarefoot home with all the fixins.

The people of LA, I meant, not Socal. You get outside LA and people start getting normal again.

It's not just the western states. I can't tell you how many people I've met here in Atlanta who have fled California for greener pastures. It seems like every other person I meet here now used to live in California.

I left in 1975 for love.
Last visited family there in 2005. Whatever it had in the old days is gone.
Malibu is nice if you're a millionaire.

Ya but not because of any earthquakes..

Do you know the the "idiots"in charge have taken the 5th largest economey in the world and turned into bankrupt 3rd world lump of steaming "failure"..

Thats along if enough to leave...

Is nots berry farm still open? That was neat...40 years ago! LOL

Yes there is real life outside of S. California.