Did you leave CA only to realize there is no place like home and came back? (Arroyo Grande: high school, restaurant)

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by slo1318

This question would be for tulemutt also. I know the weather isn't great but those are both very pretty areas, there must be things you miss unless you left really young

Nope. Not that come to mind.

I left at age 18.

[Leonard64]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

Yeah, I heard he went back to his $$$ roots after prison. Much like many criminals do.

A friend was in the pen with him for a short while.

Baker paid cons to protect him from the other prisoners.

[slo1318]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Nope. Not that come to mind.

I left at age 18.

I'm sure that may be it, but I was in St Paul in September and thought it was very nice pretty and the twin cities are great, but I know the weather sucks a good portion of the time...

[.highnlite]

Originally Posted by slo1318

I'm sure that may be it, but I was in St Paul in September and thought it was very nice pretty and the twin cities are great, but I know the weather sucks a good portion of the time...

Summers, like most places east of the 100th meridian are hot and sticky, not as bad as the South, but, unpleasant for most westerners.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by slo1318

I'm sure that may be it, but I was in St Paul in September and thought it was very nice pretty and the twin cities are great, but I know the weather sucks a good portion of the time...

Cheating. September is arguably the best month of the year everywhere in N. America. Except for kids who don't like going back to school.

[Senno]

They done fixed that back to school in September problem for kids by sending em back in August around here.

[.highnlite]

Originally Posted by slo1318

Yeah, I think places like Michigan and the upper Midwest are more humid than DFW. Head east and south from here it gets far worse

You are a better man than I, I spent a year in Boston and it liked to kill me.

[nightbird47]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

That's a strange response, mainly because I wasn't thinking of you when I composed it. But I do appreciate living in a part of the country (California) where a religion that I eschew isn't constantly thrown in my face, as I experienced during my time in de souf. So that does make California superior, in my humble opinion.

That shouldn't be a general statement. I'm Wiccan and I lived in the IE. The zelots are all over the place in the IE and Wiccan groups got invaded by those wishing to covert them and cannot openly invite interested visitors. Where I live now religion is very important, and there are many churches, everything shuts on Sunday etc, .... but its a personal thing. Nobody has ever stopped me and tried to pray for me since I was supporting the 'devil'. And I do wear a pent most of the time.

California is a diverse place, and not all areas, including those in socal, are the same.

[mateo45]

^ ^ That's a good point and as soon as you start moving away from the lib-rul coastal population centers, things start gettin' pretty ''conservative'' real fast! And even up here in the North Sacto Valley, I still see levels of conservatism that would easily rival the South. Though fortunately the Fundies and the Mormons around here, seem to be too busy most of the time competing with each other over converting new ''souls'', that they usually don't pay much attention to the rest of us ''heathen'' non-believers, Buddhists, New Agers and the like!

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by nightbird47

That shouldn't be a general statement.

It wasn't a general statement. I'll repeat it for you, with emphasis on the parts that make it not general: "But I do appreciate living in a part of the country (California) where a religion that I eschew isn't constantly thrown in MY face, as I experienced during MY time in de souf. So that does make California superior, in MY humble opinion."