From: bkt@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Barrie Trinkle)
Subject: Re: Jumping the Good Ship California
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
Distribution: ca
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:22:34 GMT

ellon@ADS.COM (Ellon St. Croix) writes:


> rudomet@eltamin.usc.edu (Steve Rudometkin) writes:
>> casey@well.sf.ca.us (Kathleen Creighton) writes:
>>>
>>>I know several people who have left California recently, and I'm hearing
>>>more talk about it.  Do you have a general sense of incoming/outgoing?
>>>Have you thought about leaving yourself?
>>Two of my friends are DEFINITELY leaving the state.  Both are mid 20's, 
>>college educated, high wage earners (which CA can't afford to lose) who
>>spent most of their lives here ~15 years each.  Both are sick and tired
>>of the crowds, traffic, smog, crime, unaffordable housing, taxes, gangs, 
>>racial tension, etc.

>>I spent a month in Europe this spring, and when I came back I almost packed my
>>bags immediately to leave to ANYWHERE else.  It took about a week to get used
>>to the above mentioned horrors of LA and learn to ignore it.
>>
>>By the way, I am a lifelong resident of SoCal.  19 Years in LA, 4 years in SD,
>>2 Years in LA (so far).
>>


>   As a native Californian, all I can say to these people is...

>   SEE YA!  Can I help you pack??? Here's your coat, where's your hat?  


>   There are crime, smog, taxes, traffic, etc. everywhere else too.

        Excuse me, Ellon....


              N    N       OO     TTTTTTT        !
              NN   N      O  O       T           !
              N N  N     O    O      T           !
              N  N N      O  O       T           
              N   NN       OO        T           ! 


>   It's just a matter of how much you are willing to take.  My mother 
>   moved to Oregon when she retired, she says if there are five people
>   at a stoplight that is a traffic jam.  But....who want's to live in
>   a place where it rains 300 days out of the year?

         Me, me!  (Believe it or not, I would actually love it.
	 Though not Oregon; Canada is nicer.)

>   I was born here in CA, I went to school here, and I'll die here.
 
         Maybe a bit sooner, statistically, than people in some
         other places.  

>   And I am getting tired of these people who come here from somewhere
>   else and put this state down.  If you don't like it then go back to
>   where ever you came from.

         That's what I REALLY love about California--EVERYONE here
         is just SO polite.
         (No insult to my many friends and neighbors who are native
         Californians and who don't say shit like this is intended.)

>   Ellon (welcome to California, now go home) St. Croix

>--
>"Excuse me,George Herbert,irregular-heart-beating,read-my-lying-lipping
>slipping-in-the-polls,do-nothing,deficit-raising,make-less-money than 
>Millie-the-White-House-dog-last-year,Quayle-loving,sushi-puking Bush!
>I don't remember inviting your ass to my show!"  Arsenio Hall.
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