i have been in california the past few days and i have to say i am not cut out for the west coast. i can’t explain it but thatks just the feeling i had. i’m a southerner to my bones!
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I moved from North Carolina to San Francisco in late June 2016, and I was freezing that entire summer. 7 years later I love it here, but there are things about the South that I miss. Warm rain, cold drinks in the shade on a warm afternoon, sir/ma’am, grits, things of that nature.
it took me a long time to get used to, but i've lived in the west for most of my adult life now and am not sure i could really readjust to the south again
I have similar feelings about Virginia. It was nice to see DC (happy to not live there anymore) and Charlottesville is a great town. Moved backed to California after 4 years in Va. and it just feels right.
Deep believer that land tells you if and when you belong to it. It keeps you and releases you and tells you when you’re home. I’ve lived all over and LA & Puerto Barrios, Guatemala are the only places that have ever felt like home.
I think it's pretty common for folks to have places that just feel right, and by implication, others that don't. Some of it's social, some of it's geophysical, some of it might be less identifiable but no less real. The air and the light just *feel right* some places.
So LA isn't really CA because there's something about LA that the rest of us supposedly hate like something about LA operates *differently*? Again how do you figure? Wealth inequality? Up & down the state. Water theft? Up & Down. Land theft? Up & down. Exploitative industry? Hella Up n Down.
As for white El Ay ppl, they're as obnoxious as anywhere else. Just as entitled & vapid in SF or Fresno or San Jose. I could easily kill a decade in LA whooping it up & eating a new taco every day easy. It's cool as hell there. Diverse af & has its own personality, good or bad it's very CA. THE END.
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