Dave,
Congrats on your move and the beginning of the next chapter for you.
But that's a pretty harsh assessment of Woodside. Where else can you rebuild a house and sell it for so much more? Where else is property worth as much as in Silicon Valley? If there is no incentive to work, who is running Apple, HP, Oracle, Google, Facebook, and so many other outrageously successful companies? Who are the ones building all the new houses, that are not interested in working?
It's fine to be glad you moved to your dream location, as I have done, but is it necessary to deride everything about the state you, apparently, were successful in? I mean, if you owned property in Woodside, you had it made. Woodside is some of the most valuable property in the country and highly sought after by very successful people from all over the world with its wooded, rustic feel, very famous neighbors and close proximity to Silicon Valley. You must have been successful in California too. And you were neighbors, at some point, with Steve Jobs and Shirley Temple, among many others. Woodside is a beautiful, wooded, neighborhood where homes sell for outrageous prices and bidders compete against each other to get them.
I have been in business in California for over thirty years. I've lived there for about 60 years. I have now moved to Nevada and I'm glad I did. But I haven't the desire to deride California using tired stereotypes and political generalizations that really don't make sense. Especially after boosting myself forward on the success I found there, as you have apparently done. Wouldn't it be nice to turn down the rhetoric at some point? Was I one of the people that, as you say, "infested" the state?
It's always wonderful to move on to a new and better place. A place that is better for us considering what we want now instead of what we wanted in the past. A place that offers us peace. I wish you happiness in your new environment. And I wish happiness to those that bought your home in Woodside. You know, the ones with big bucks and no incentive, that decided to "infest" California by buying your place with all that money while living on welfare. Sheesh. :laughing:
