/ck/ - Food & Cooking

The financial troubles in California pale by comparison to the United States government. If you say we should kick California to the curb because she has a debt problem that doesn't come anywhere near her GDP, you must be ready to bury the country. And those with a pusillanimous fear of earthquakes really need to get a grip. Haha, get it? Earthquakes and get a grip? Dumb... If California broke off and became a nation, we would displace a member of the G8, making us a driving force in the global economy. We can feed ourselves from the center of our state, build our own houses from timber in the north and make our own clothing in the south. We have an uncommonly high percentage of the country's PhDs and other advanced degrees. In addition, we have a huge labor force. The next closest state does half the business we do.
So much for the list of reasons California is great, that no one ever thinks about. When you add in the obvious reasons like the weather, the film industry, theme parks, national parks such as Yosemite and a coast line like no other, why would anyone want to live somewhere else? What am I leaving out? Several competitive major league sports teams, more theater than anywhere west of New York City, the car capital of the world, the music industry, and on and on...

You can't be thin-skinned and live here though. The Santa Ana winds come and dry everything out causing the hillsides to ignite and burn off all the vegitation. The rains come and houses slide down the hills along with the bare dirt. If you manage to dodge all that, an earthquake hits!

I've lived all over the United States and beyond. California is the only state I've lived in more than once. I keep coming back to California.