Every four years Californians elect the worst person in the state to be governor, this is because the Governor has to live in Sacramento, a fate worse than death for most Californians
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Looking for legit criticisms of that city as someone working on a list of cities to move to in WA & CA in the next few years.
Looks pretty good from my perspective. Extremely diverse. Moderately affordable compared to other CA metros. Access to great outdoors & SF. Sunny w/ relatively mild climate.
The best thing about Sacramento is that it's 2 hours away from anything you could want to do: the Sierras and the ski resorts, world-class museums, some of the best dining anywhere, and lots of entertainment choices.
The down side is that it's 2 hours away from anything you want to do.
Let me just reiterate: it's a long, ugly, stinky drive from sac to the Bay Area (i made this journey every other week for two decades). It's a long slow drive to the mountains(a pretty drive, but it's at least 2hrs one way).
It gets very hot well ahead of summer.
They have lots of trees, which usually is good but the sheer variety means you'll almost certainly have seasonal allergies even if you don't now.
It's ugly. One of the uglier cities I've lived in.
If you want to do anything fun, it's a 2hr drive to get there.
You should not take this person's advice. They clearly haven't lived here in a while. Davis is great if you like college towns. It's limited in amenities though.
Dearth of interesting or innovative cuisine.
That bridge is an eyesore.
Schools are just okay.
I lived there for 18 years and got as far away as possible as soon as I could. It's not worth it. Visit for the french toast at the Tower Cafe, but don't stay.
If you want to live in a capital C city, it ain't it. If you want to live in not-really-a-city city it's ok. It's surrounded by orchards and nothing, i grew up around there, thay part of northern California is pretty redneck
California contributes more to the US economy than almost any state. In 2023, California's GDP was about $3.9 trillion, California's GDP made up about 14% of the US GDP
i have a friend who works for state government and she calls it hot-as-ballsackramento. she likes it better now that she has a house with a pool though because she can buy giant unicorn-shaped pool floats and have pool parties when it’s 138 degrees.
Jerry Brown was not the worst person in the state...we just can't find that many competent masochists who want to atone for their sins by living in Sacramento
It’s been a while since I’ve been in the area but my overriding memory of Sacramento is that it only exists to fill an otherwise empty part of the state.
Could be worse; you could be Florida with an incompetent fascist pandering to one of our biggest concerns only to use it as a guise to get real estate developers to fund your campaign & banking on peoples ignorance for re-election. Thats just the recent guy. The previous one is probably as worse
Did you stop to think that if you're in an affluent area that having to go to a post office might not speak to that affluence? That maybe it's more about geography? And size?
Must be a trip to only know city living.
I live about 30 minutes outside of Sacramento and it never fails to amaze me that California, which BY ITSELF is the fifth largest economy in the WORLD, decided that the state capitol should be located in a complete nothingburger of a city
State capitols in general are chosen to be located away from major hubs like, say, the Bay Area or Los Angeles to avoid major financial influence from their immediate surroundings. Not saying it works, but that's the logic.
I think the main reason Democrats don't support UBI, and the like more is because they know as soon as people can afford to live someone way more competent will replace them.
I want to extract Jerry Brown’s brain, encase it in gold, wire it to a quantum supercomputer, and let it govern California eternally... murmuring riddles, vetoing bills in haiku, communing with coyotes. The highways pulse with his thoughts. The Delta tunnels whisper his name. The state is…alive.
Hey now. Just b/c our city is boring & ugly doesn't mean it isn't likable. Plenty of us live here happily w/o becoming twatwaffles like Newsom. He's awful b/c he's awful, not b/c of where he lives. If we could chase him away with pitchforks we would, but when we try, he just laughs and drools.
It's funny to me you keep saying this because as someone who lives in the Central Valley, most Californians treat living in Fresno or Bakersfield as the fate worse than death (I say this as current Fresno resident)
Fun fact: the lieutenant governor of CA used to also serve as the warden of San Quentin. We would weed out a lot of would-be govs if they still had to do that job first
Are you deliberately belittling the fact that Newsom now publicly agrees with a queerphobic fascist talking head and sees merit in pseudoscientific anti-trans bigotry? Or are you genuinely clueless about what’s going on?
I don’t think having conversations with people with different views is a bad thing. As a matter of fact I think there should be more of it. How do you change minds otherwise?
Violent transphobia is just a different view to you? Now I’m pretty sure you’re deliberately belittling bigotry.
In case not then you’re incredibly naive to think a convo with hardened fash like Kirk is gonna change his mind. No, it only gives fascists a platform to spread their hate.
And the hate did indeed spread, because if you had read what I said before you’d know that NEWSOM NOW PUBLICLY AGREES WITH KIRK’S PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC ANTI-TRANS BIGOTRY
I didn’t see the “violent” part. But I’ll look. I personally don’t agree with trans women competing against sis women in post puberty sports. That does not mean I don’t want all trans people be happy and live their lives as they are. Opinions differ on that obviously
I've been to Santa Barbara many times and one thought that never crossed my mind is "This place is great but why don't we bring all the politicians here. Let's get Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas in the mix and then we'll really be cooking with gas."
My wife was born in SF and tells me she really got that Dr. Manhattan on Mars meme when she realized she'd had Newsom in elections for basically her entire adult life.
Just read the disasters and controversy sections on their Wikipedia page while knowing that PG&E largely emerged from the more recent ones with very little direct accountability.
We don't have them in Sacramento, ironically. We have a community owned power company called SMUD and if you knew how great things could be you'd hate PG&E too.
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(It’s a dry heat.)
Its not the heat, Sacramento just sucks.
Looks pretty good from my perspective. Extremely diverse. Moderately affordable compared to other CA metros. Access to great outdoors & SF. Sunny w/ relatively mild climate.
The down side is that it's 2 hours away from anything you want to do.
For California it's a very liveable, suburban little city. It's more affordable than the other metros. It's diverse.
The current downsides are the heat from end of May to early October, allergies, and a large unhoused population on the streets
They have lots of trees, which usually is good but the sheer variety means you'll almost certainly have seasonal allergies even if you don't now.
It's ugly. One of the uglier cities I've lived in.
If you want to do anything fun, it's a 2hr drive to get there.
That bridge is an eyesore.
Schools are just okay.
I lived there for 18 years and got as far away as possible as soon as I could. It's not worth it. Visit for the french toast at the Tower Cafe, but don't stay.
This is not a serious evaluator of cuisine. Or they haven't been here since 2003.
Matter of taste for me. I like the size where you have the full gamut of city amenities, but still might run into a neighbor anywhere in town.
the town so to false they named it after balls
you get it
Must be a trip to only know city living.
But instead of forbidden, it's more like the Forsaken City.
Worst three days ever.
Are you deliberately belittling the fact that Newsom now publicly agrees with a queerphobic fascist talking head and sees merit in pseudoscientific anti-trans bigotry? Or are you genuinely clueless about what’s going on?
In case not then you’re incredibly naive to think a convo with hardened fash like Kirk is gonna change his mind. No, it only gives fascists a platform to spread their hate.
I hope you're gonna help Gavin NOT get elected president by maybe doing a BtB on him (and pg&e)