rrebellas born on the west coast in SF bay area, went to school in Baltimore and started buisness there. Did not like the cold or really hot summers with high humitity. Got married and we were visiting Calif. for x-mas and were having a picnik in a park in Jan. and it was 75 degrees, back home it was -5 degrees, went back and put home on the market and moved.
When was that? Probably beforee the prices of homes shot thu the roof. From all I am reading, there is no way I could afford to move there now. In fact many so called middle class families who moved there in recent years are having to move due to the unaffordable high cost of living. Most I've talked to who are happy in CA now have been there a long time and were established before the COL went up to present rates.
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riogrande5761 rrebell as born on the west coast in SF bay area, went to school in Baltimore and started buisness there. Did not like the cold or really hot summers with high humitity. Got married and we were visiting Calif. for x-mas and were having a picnik in a park in Jan. and it was 75 degrees, back home it was -5 degrees, went back and put home on the market and moved. When was that? Probably beforee the prices of homes shot thu the roof. From all I am reading, there is no way I could afford to move there now. In fact many so called middle class families who moved there in recent years are having to move due to the unaffordable high cost of living. Most I've talked to who are happy in CA now have been there a long time and were established before the COL went up to present rates.
rrebell as born on the west coast in SF bay area, went to school in Baltimore and started buisness there. Did not like the cold or really hot summers with high humitity. Got married and we were visiting Calif. for x-mas and were having a picnik in a park in Jan. and it was 75 degrees, back home it was -5 degrees, went back and put home on the market and moved.
California is about to loose a seating the House of Representatives because of declining population. Somebody must be running from the high cost of living and high level of regulation.
I've lived in Maryland my whole life (except a one year stay on Long Island at age 12), I like the change of seasons.
The weather here is only a problem if you insist on spending lots of time outdoors...... the model trains in the climate controlled indoors.......
I like spending a nice day outdoors, and when the weather is too hot or too cold, I'm happy to be inside.
Sheldon
ATLANTIC CENTRALCalifornia is about to loose a seating the House of Representatives because of declining population.
California population is not declining, just not rising as fast as Florida and Texas. They only lost one seat, and Florida gained one.
The country gained 23 million persons from 2010 to 2020. From what I have read, no states have declining population.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190The country gained 23 million persons from 2010 to 2020. From what I have read, no states have declining population.
rrebell TheFlyingScotsman riogrande5761 SeeYou190 riogrande5761 The only down side is it was bloody cold - it's like going on an arctic expedition to go to those shows. I will probably never go to a Springfield show. I just don't do cold, and I will never own a coat. -Kevin I grew up in hot & dry northern California, I never did cold very well. Nor high humidity for that matter, ahem. The cold was part of the reason my first marriage didn't last. You see she was born and raised there and will probably live there all her life. I couldn't tolerate it. But, the Springfield show is probably the best show I've ever attended, so if you can brave it, I don't think you'll regret it. I can say that having attended these events for the last 50 years with each decade they have become more and more commercialised - that's here in the UK I mean, but regarding the cold - which I loathe - my girlfriend who I'd met in summer time in Santa Barbara CA went to college in Worcester MA and I visited her in February and I can tell you after a lifetime of moving around the planet for work and play that is the coldest I have ever been. It was brutal, so I can see why a guy brought up in CA just couldn't get to grips with it. I couldn't. Was born on the west coast in SF bay area, went to school in Baltimore and started buisness there. Did not like the cold or really hot summers with high humitity. Got married and we were visiting Calif. for x-mas and were having a picnik in a park in Jan. and it was 75 degrees, back home it was -5 degrees, went back and put home on the market and moved.
TheFlyingScotsman riogrande5761 SeeYou190 riogrande5761 The only down side is it was bloody cold - it's like going on an arctic expedition to go to those shows. I will probably never go to a Springfield show. I just don't do cold, and I will never own a coat. -Kevin I grew up in hot & dry northern California, I never did cold very well. Nor high humidity for that matter, ahem. The cold was part of the reason my first marriage didn't last. You see she was born and raised there and will probably live there all her life. I couldn't tolerate it. But, the Springfield show is probably the best show I've ever attended, so if you can brave it, I don't think you'll regret it. I can say that having attended these events for the last 50 years with each decade they have become more and more commercialised - that's here in the UK I mean, but regarding the cold - which I loathe - my girlfriend who I'd met in summer time in Santa Barbara CA went to college in Worcester MA and I visited her in February and I can tell you after a lifetime of moving around the planet for work and play that is the coldest I have ever been. It was brutal, so I can see why a guy brought up in CA just couldn't get to grips with it. I couldn't.
riogrande5761 SeeYou190 riogrande5761 The only down side is it was bloody cold - it's like going on an arctic expedition to go to those shows. I will probably never go to a Springfield show. I just don't do cold, and I will never own a coat. -Kevin I grew up in hot & dry northern California, I never did cold very well. Nor high humidity for that matter, ahem. The cold was part of the reason my first marriage didn't last. You see she was born and raised there and will probably live there all her life. I couldn't tolerate it. But, the Springfield show is probably the best show I've ever attended, so if you can brave it, I don't think you'll regret it.
SeeYou190 riogrande5761 The only down side is it was bloody cold - it's like going on an arctic expedition to go to those shows. I will probably never go to a Springfield show. I just don't do cold, and I will never own a coat. -Kevin
riogrande5761 The only down side is it was bloody cold - it's like going on an arctic expedition to go to those shows.
I will probably never go to a Springfield show. I just don't do cold, and I will never own a coat.
I grew up in hot & dry northern California, I never did cold very well. Nor high humidity for that matter, ahem. The cold was part of the reason my first marriage didn't last. You see she was born and raised there and will probably live there all her life. I couldn't tolerate it.
But, the Springfield show is probably the best show I've ever attended, so if you can brave it, I don't think you'll regret it.
I can say that having attended these events for the last 50 years with each decade they have become more and more commercialised - that's here in the UK I mean, but regarding the cold - which I loathe - my girlfriend who I'd met in summer time in Santa Barbara CA went to college in Worcester MA and I visited her in February and I can tell you after a lifetime of moving around the planet for work and play that is the coldest I have ever been. It was brutal, so I can see why a guy brought up in CA just couldn't get to grips with it. I couldn't.
Was born on the west coast in SF bay area, went to school in Baltimore and started buisness there. Did not like the cold or really hot summers with high humitity. Got married and we were visiting Calif. for x-mas and were having a picnik in a park in Jan. and it was 75 degrees, back home it was -5 degrees, went back and put home on the market and moved.
When I worked in Riyadh Saudi Arabia one of the guys there had a similar tale to yours - he lived in Boston. He came back from Florida in the mid 1970's and on his first day going back to work slipped on ice and hurt his leg. The house was sold and Frank and family swanned off to FL. Never regretted it.
chutton01West Virginia did, as did Mississippi and Illinois.
OK,I found it. It looks like Puerto Rico also had a population decrease.
California and Florida are in the same growth range, but they lost a seat and we gained one.
Interesting.
Given the choice, I'd prefer northern CA over FL any day, having been in both places. But where I am ain't bad; winters aren't severe like the midwest or northeast and bonus, we have basements!
SeeYou190 Kevin, If you're going to the U.P. in June, you might want to bring a coat. It can get a bit chilly at night, even in June. riogrande5761 The only down side is it was bloody cold - it's like going on an arctic expedition to go to those shows. I will probably never go to a Springfield show. I just don't do cold, and I will never own a coat. -Kevin
Kevin,
If you're going to the U.P. in June, you might want to bring a coat. It can get a bit chilly at night, even in June.
SeeYou190 I just don't do cold, and I will never own a coat. -Kevin
sschnablIf you're going to the U.P. in June, you might want to bring a coat. It can get a bit chilly at night, even in June.
I used to have a pet parrot named Schnable. (German for beak)
Yeah, no thanks. Do you get Lake Effect up there in the UP?