Out here for business. Within walking distance of our office is a 4 wheel parts and orw. Everyone evidently has the money to do God knows how much to their rigs. Our parking lot prob has 20 lifted rigs in it. Makes me sick
You just need to live close. If I was moving "to California" I'd like to move to Verdi, Nevada. Reno is right next door, Lake Tahoe and the Rubicon are just to the south, Fordyce is just over the border. Sandwiched between Toiyabe and Tahoe National Forests, with Plumas and El Dorado NFs not much further away, you're within an hour of all sorts of cool stuff, you're still in Nevada, and there are TREES!
It isn't that bad. California is too big and too varied to write off completely. I've probably spent a month there combined, and less than a week of that was spent sleeping under a roof, and none of it in any town bigger than Placerville. Yes, there are weirdos... welcome to the west coast. But there's too many thousands of acres of open desert, mountains and forest to pass up - and I've yet to even visit the CA coast.
And unfortunately for the rest of us, everything but San Francisco is filtering out of Cali to the rest of the country. I hate California too but mostly because of the people moving out everywhere else because they don't like how things are done there and then say "Well this is how we do it in California, this is how we should do it here."
i love california itself. it's just the laws and some of the people that suck. i spent part of a summer out there a few years ago and had a great time. i'm going back at the end of november to spend 2 days in san diego and 2 days in san francisco.