Mark's Tone
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I would bring extra drinking water, and Iodine pills for the radiation coming from Japan.:nightmare:
San Francisco is the place to be, all real people know this, for soooo many reasons. And if you like women, well youknow, less competition. Far friendlier, far more liberal, far less pretension far more real people far more healthy far better surrounding areas, wine country, much more "european" from what they say.
I do agree about that architecturally, feel-wise, women ratio-wise. But I'm not after wine country and that foggy micro climate which makes London more favorable to me. I chose LA because of the beach accessibility and all year moderately hot weather. I almost chose Berkeley based on sunshine but it turned out that the heat was less than London summer. Then San Jose for the same reason, but it was too suburban. I'm not into pretension though.
What does laisez-faire mean?
Are you retiring? What do you plan to do for work? If its beach life my pick would be Ventura or Santa Barbara -- all the nice, warm water and sand but less people most of the year. But not much industry in either of those places.
I will not be retiring in the sense of completely laid back, carefree, casual. that's why I'm not interested in San Diego, Central Cali. LA is about the acccess to millions of people (like London), the all round close vicinity of mountains, ocean, etc), industry and the city feel. Howver I'd be living a more healthy life there, with access to the humdrum too. I'd be living a 'retired' lifestyle, in the sense that I'd be spending free time reconnecting with nature. Adjusting my career accordingly. But I'm not in the entertainment industry so that's not a factor.
I find people in Los a. Anything but friendly. If you r a total stranger I could literally making no friends unless very wealthy trendy and showy Then who can you trust is a REAL friend?!
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I find people in Los a. Anything but friendly. If you r a total stranger I could literally making no friends unless very wealthy trendy and showy Then who can you trust is a REAL friend?!
I find people in Los a. Anything but friendly. If you r a total stranger I could literally making no friends unless very wealthy trendy and showy Then who can you trust is a REAL friend?!
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That's pretty much true for any desirable area in California. LA and environs has it worst of all, but it's all degrees of bad here. It's getting better, but getting around in California is largely a car-based activity. There are going to be predictable ebbs to Santa Monica traffic: weekends, holidays are going to be nuts because people want to go to the beach on their day off.But I have read a lot of people complain that the traffic and overcrowding has worsened now that santa monica subway station in service.
The real key to successfully living in California is to accept that any time you have a brilliant idea to go some place and do something, a million other people also had that same brilliant idea and will be trying to do that same thing and the exact same time as you.How bad is traffic, crowding and parking issues looking moving forward, is it looking like santa monica is unlivable?