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Cryxan	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 5:30 AM Well, I know there are, CA bein' the most populous state and all, just figured I'd continue the trend here. Holla.
monsquaz	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 5:37 PM I am not, and glad for it.
invocati	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 5:44 PM I wish I were from california but not where the fires were.
Maffmatix	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 5:50 PM WEST LA IS WHERE I AM AT
mracky	Date: December 10, 2003 @ 7:06 PM I squat in Berkeley, home of the free speech movement!
onewhodreams	Date: December 11, 2003 @ 10:12 PM Good ole' Orange County here Where you at Cryxan?
Your-Mom	Date: December 11, 2003 @ 10:24 PM Chico, CA. Partytown!!
Cryxan	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 5:37 AM Just outside of San Diego.
onewhodreams	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 10:36 AM That's good to know
Larree	Date: December 14, 2003 @ 8:01 AM And we are just as glad that you're NOT here, monsquaz. Not really, but we know that you're just jealous. Hollywood here.
Larree	Date: December 14, 2003 @ 8:03 AM Mr ACKEY! I used to hang in Berkely back in the late 70's! Hung in a house with a crazy girl on Grizzley Peak!
monsquaz	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 8:33 PM Perhaps it is jealousy. Yes, it's a pretty-looking state, and there are a lot of good people who come/came from, lived in, or currently live in California (Frank Zappa [who was born in Baltimore, but lived in California after that for the most part], Tom Waits, Jello Biafra [a Colorado native, but moved to California], Mike Patton, and Lemmy Kilminster [he immigrated to L.A. from England a few decades ago]). I think my beef is mainly with SOUTHERN California. From what I've seen, the major urban areas are giant concrete cesspools of corruption, drugs, pollution, overblown pop culture, and plastic liberalism. This does not make the major sections such as Los Angeles and San Francisco seem like places I'd want to live, whether or not they have pretty coastal scenery. If you people like southern California, good for you. That's your decision. I just don't want to live there myself. However, I'll at least someday visit the places. I know too little about northern California to pass judgement on that part of the state.
Larree	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 9:39 PM "From what I've seen, the major urban areas are giant concrete cesspools of corruption, drugs, pollution, overblown pop culture, and plastic liberalism. This does not make the major sections such as Los Angeles and San Francisco seem like places I'd want to live, whether or not they have pretty coastal scenery. If you people like southern California, good for you. That's your decision. I just don't want to live there myself. However, I'll at least someday visit the places." You ain't seen nothin' and ya don't know squat. Do come visit someday. I'll buy you a beer or three and show you how full of it your lifelong ASSumption has been.
missvolatile	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 10:03 PM I'm in crapcruz er I mean Santa Cruz (SF baby area kind of). I might be moving to LA later this year, still up in the air.
missvolatile	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 10:03 PM I'm in crapcruz er I mean Santa Cruz (SF baby area kind of). I might be moving to LA later this year, still up in the air.
Larree	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 10:09 PM Cool! What part of L.A. are ya thinking of moving to?
victorsskull	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 11:13 PM mn
missvolatile	Date: December 18, 2003 @ 1:09 AM Larree: I wish I knew. I have no clue about LA. All I know is that there are possible jobs for me down there and I need to go where the work is. Any recommendations?
Cryxan	Date: December 18, 2003 @ 6:13 AM because of the mountains, where I love to drive through. heh There tends to be a little more landscape, etc. Besides job availability, what else are you looking for? Others might be able to make better suggestions if you're more specific. Do you want to be near the ocean? Near mountains? Lakes? Small airports? One last thing I wanna touch on before I quit rambling is population density. LA is Crowded. Yes, capital C. Your county: 574 persons per square mile; LA County: 2,344 persons per square mile. Maybe I'll make a pitch for San Diego County: 670 persons per square mile. :D SD is still big, is prettier than LA, although drier. The population of SD County is just under 3 million, which is about a third of what LA's got. Oh just ome more thing before I shut up. Here's a decent LA area map for you to poke around in, if you're not familiar with the topography. :speak::))" id="74620">LA recommendation: Stay out of LA City proper. The cost of living is hideous, although probably comparable to where you're living right now. Anytime you need to hop a freeway, the chances of getting stuck in traffic are real good, any time of day. It's congested and ugly. Getting "out of town" is a major undertaking. If your commute to work is more than 8 or 10 miles, the drive is going to suck any way you slice it. However, LA City is surrounded by tons of smaller cities (within LA County), some nicer than others, but many quite large with plenty of job opportunities. I can't make specific recommendations because I'm definitely not an expert on the area, jut sayin, you might be happier if you stayed out of the center of the metropolis. The best recommendation I can give you is take two or three days (a week if you can), and drive down to take a look and explore. It's the off-season, so motel rates are more reasonable at the moment. One area I do like up there is along the 210 just south of the San Gabriel Mountains... mainly because of the mountains, where I love to drive through. heh There tends to be a little more landscape, etc. Besides job availability, what else are you looking for? Others might be able to make better suggestions if you're more specific. Do you want to be near the ocean? Near mountains? Lakes? Small airports? One last thing I wanna touch on before I quit rambling is population density. LA is Crowded. Yes, capital C. Your county: 574 persons per square mile; LA County: 2,344 persons per square mile. Maybe I'll make a pitch for San Diego County: 670 persons per square mile. SD is still big, is prettier than LA, although drier. The population of SD County is just under 3 million, which is about a third of what LA's got. Oh just ome more thing before I shut up. Here's a decent LA area map for you to poke around in, if you're not familiar with the topography.
Larree	Date: December 18, 2003 @ 9:05 AM Good morning, Miss Volatile! Cryxan offered up some great advice. However, I will say, I do love living right in the center of this city. Yes, traffic does suck a lot of the time, but if you preplan a few alternate routes it's not too bad. I always get where I'm going on time. The key is to avoid the long daily commutes. Like, cryxan is right about living in the East L.A. County communities by the San Gabriels... but if you had to drive to work in Malibu everyday... Anyway, you should come down for a week and check it out. It's a day's drive from the cruz!
milladrive	Date: December 18, 2003 @ 8:14 PM Interestingly, Cryx, your first paragraph above sounds like advice for the whole of the NY metro area and the entire northeast corridor. It's definitely applicable. heh And as for pop density, LA County sounds like a dream to me. A literal dream. My county, Nassau NY, has 4,655 persons per sq mi. Queens County, to the immediate west of mine, has 20,409/sq mi. Kings County (Brooklyn borough) has 34,917/sq mi. New York County (Manhattan borough) has 34,757/sq mi. Bronx: 31,709. Richmond County (Staten Island) 7,588. Hudson County NJ, 13,044. Essex NJ, 6,285, Union NJ, 5,968, and Bergen NJ, 3,776. ....How big can I make that capital C?
missvolatile	Date: December 18, 2003 @ 10:53 PM Wow Cryx, thanks for all that advice, I really appreciate it. I know I'm probably the first person to say this, but Santa Cruz has me all "oceaned" out so there is no need for me to live by the ocean. I know it seems like a dream and all, but little things start creeping up like your car covered in salt every morning and rusted engine parts. Not to mention the endless sea of tourists eep. You are right in that I probalby would not enjoy being in the center of everything. I've been in the middle of populated urban areas before and it wasn't my thing, although it was nice to have everything within walking distance. You know what the weird thing about traffic is? When I've visted LA over the summer, it took me a shorter time to get out of LA than it did Santa Cruz. It took me 8 hours to get to LA due to gridlock up here, but leaving LA, it took me 4 hours to get home. I'm very use to traffic though, unfortunately. The bay area has some spots the rival LA, some might even be worse (at least from what I've been told). But alas, I'm still terrified of LA in that its the biggest place I've ever considered living. I would prefer to be somewhere that isn't terribly far from my job (I'm a film graduate or will be) I'm interested in sound design, editing, screenwriting, production, post production, etc. And somewhere that is fairly convenient in that its not a huge ordeal just to go to the grocery store. I say this, because I've done the whole living in the woods and middle of nowhere thing for a few years now and I"m ready for convenience for a change Good music stores nearby are a plus I'm really not that picky, but I would like it to not be the ghetto and definitely not by an airport. I won't even ask if there is a "haight st" area like in sf or a "capital hill" area like in Seattle. These are sections of towns where all the artsy fartsies hang out with lots of coffee shops. I'm under the impression that LA is loaded with artsy fartsies
luapwr	Date: December 23, 2003 @ 2:46 PM Born and raised in California but moved to Switzerland at the age of 31..
docwalkerfan	Date: December 28, 2003 @ 7:46 PM I'm from Northern California. Just moved from Marin County to Sonoma County Debbie

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