[ansel12]

California used to be a heck of a state, it used to be thought of as the Golden state, sunshine, joy, surfs up!, music, oranges and Hollywood glamour, forests and bikinis, VW bugs with Porsche engines, Disneyland and San Francisco restaurants.

Today it is an old hag past her glory days, desperate and having trouble paying the rent, but still fighting to cling to an image of glamour even as the infrastructure crumbles and community and ‘California’ are forgotten concepts, there are no common feelings of unity and hope for the future out here.

California is purely a place for taking what you can get from it while the getting is good. A direction that the US has been going in for 40 years and is acted on by the millions of foreigners who arrive by the planeloads to get what they can get here with no care about the American future or the hard earned American past, and certainly no concept of what used to be thought of as America’s wonderful destiny of spreading the American way of life to the world and liberating the human spirit, instead we imported the world’s bleak existence into America and have become irretrievably bogged down in diverse humanity in mass, forever.

[Proud_texan]

Lived there for a while back in the 70s, there just wasn't the needed infrastructure for computer tech here in Texas but by the time we moved back to Texas in 1990 the writing was on the wall. And our visits back are getting less frequent partly because it's just so sad and not to mention unnecessary.

Still miss many aspects of it, our last location was Sonoma county and I doubt if I'll ever find a place as pretty not to mention my type of climate.

A shame and a pity.

[justa-hairyape]

You nailed the plight of California and ultimately the plight of the US very well.