kenmbz
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We just did a Cali run from Yosemite to San Diego with lots of stops (sorry Ultra did not have spare time to say hi, but drove through Oakland a few times.)
In San Francisco by all the fancy hotels, lots of wandering homeless and druggies.
In Tahoe, lots of people talking about the empty house rules and angry.
In LA/SF etc. Almost everything is locked up in Walgreens etc.
LA downtown is back to the way it was in the early 90's, dangerous.
We have relatives we visited, none had a single kind word for Newsom.
These ADUs are already a problem, people erecting them on small plots so they are pretty much in your back yard. One relative had three bordering her back year in Laguna Niguel (expensive area).
One was relatives in the ADU, the other 2 are kids renting and partying all night, police will only drive by and not knock on door unless they see actual signs of violence.
That relative is putting in triple pane glass and sound proofing it's gotten so bad.
There are still plenty of nice places away from the cities. Santa Barbara has turned into a somewhat lower class area, but it was fun to drive onto the pier and park (did not do that last time I was here). We liked Santa Cruz, pretty much how I remembered it from the 90s and 2000's
Solvang is pretty, but even the bakery seems fake (we went to Carmel bakery earlier and my family said no comparison, and Carmel bakery was cheaper). Nice for a drive through, but don't understand why someone would overnight here unless the drive to their next stop was too long.
my wife was very focused on us retiring to Orange County, but is now rethinking that based on what we saw and conversations with relatives and locals.
We bypassed Santa Monica as last time we were there about 5 years ago, it was too packed in with big hotels and lost most of it's appeal.
Still lots of farms up north by Davis (went to US Davis to look at for my son). Go on for miles and miles. But man, you can see where they don't irrigate is dry and dead.
Great weather, bad politics.
And the lovely SF and LA traffic
In San Francisco by all the fancy hotels, lots of wandering homeless and druggies.
In Tahoe, lots of people talking about the empty house rules and angry.
In LA/SF etc. Almost everything is locked up in Walgreens etc.
LA downtown is back to the way it was in the early 90's, dangerous.
We have relatives we visited, none had a single kind word for Newsom.
These ADUs are already a problem, people erecting them on small plots so they are pretty much in your back yard. One relative had three bordering her back year in Laguna Niguel (expensive area).
One was relatives in the ADU, the other 2 are kids renting and partying all night, police will only drive by and not knock on door unless they see actual signs of violence.
That relative is putting in triple pane glass and sound proofing it's gotten so bad.
There are still plenty of nice places away from the cities. Santa Barbara has turned into a somewhat lower class area, but it was fun to drive onto the pier and park (did not do that last time I was here). We liked Santa Cruz, pretty much how I remembered it from the 90s and 2000's
Solvang is pretty, but even the bakery seems fake (we went to Carmel bakery earlier and my family said no comparison, and Carmel bakery was cheaper). Nice for a drive through, but don't understand why someone would overnight here unless the drive to their next stop was too long.
my wife was very focused on us retiring to Orange County, but is now rethinking that based on what we saw and conversations with relatives and locals.
We bypassed Santa Monica as last time we were there about 5 years ago, it was too packed in with big hotels and lost most of it's appeal.
Still lots of farms up north by Davis (went to US Davis to look at for my son). Go on for miles and miles. But man, you can see where they don't irrigate is dry and dead.
Great weather, bad politics.
And the lovely SF and LA traffic
