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Tod, it looks like just one of those serendipitous things. Apparently, we're both in the right place. How about that?

Hope they leave the "West Coast Rule Book" here. I don't feel like buying a bunch of East Coast or Mid-west legal parts.

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There Ya Go! lol

Met a few nice people in LA..., out of 13 million.... , most of who seemed to want to be where I was all at the same time...

Great Mexican food in LA, I will give it that, and I spent a great day once at work on the beach. They were painting my office so I took an air card and worked in Malibu, it didn't suck.

But I will WALK before I go through LAX again.

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I spent a week in Orange County back in 09 and there were Police chases all day long, wake up in the morning watch it live on the news, go out in the courtyard during lunch and watched the helicopters and listened to the sirens all day everyday.

X2 on the good mexican food, not sure how folks can live out there though, except for the beautiful weather

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"silicon" :)

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I've lived in So Cal all my live except for four years I lived in southern Oregon in the Rogue Valley. We get back up there every few years, and I fantacize about having a place in Grants Pass or thereabouts. The thing is that I have an outstanding job with lots of nice people, and I really can't leave until my daughter finishes college.My son is almost done, she has about two or three more years to go. One thing,though,every time we spend time up there,I can't help but notice how busy,active and somewhat noisy this place is when we return. Oh,sure, we have everything--you are an hour or so from the beach at Malibu,the high desert if dirt riding is your thing,Glendora is ten miles from Irwindale, seven from Pomona, and twenty five from Fontana, so there is sufficient drag racing( we went through a 20 year time span where this was NOT the case),I guess every locale has its perks and its pits. I think, however, I would rather take my chances in an earthquake over a big tornado. Meanwhile, I'll avail myself of the opportunities at hand and enjoy the present.

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Please tell that to the people who watch the Rose Parade in TV at their
home in the snow and think "that's wonderful, I'll move there".

The streets here are NOT paved in gold, there are too many people for
the space we have, housing prices are out of reach for most.

OK, I'm down off my soap box, now buy my expensive house so I can move
to Colorado and have room for a shop.

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I have been retired for 10 years now and we have traveled the country racing and just seeing the country. There are positives and negatives about everywhere we have been.
As posted above there are good things and bad things about everywhere you go in the country. You just have to choose what works best for you.
I had a uncle who lived just outside Grants Pass Oregon in the 1960's along I believe the Rouge River. His place was upstream from the river that ran through Grants Pass. I was in high school at the time of my first visit to him there and the salmon were running up the river. The river was just full of fish coming to the top of the water. I had never seen anything like it and I understand now it is nothing like that. It was a beautiful place in the 1960's.
Being retired I think a state with no state income tax, a decent climate, and a safe environment is the most important place for me. I can travel from there to the races or whatever and that is what I like most about where we live right now, but I can live and be happy most anywhere.
My 2 Cents

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Great!! Now we get a midwest rule book

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Sounds good to me !!!!!!!!!:eek:

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Be careful, when the people in Colorado speak of the immigration problem they aren't talking about Mexicans sneaking across the border...

Overheard many a conversation in diners over breakfast to that regard. I remember in Estes Park a couple years ago I was eating breakfast and listening two locals laughing at the CA transplants that didn't have A/C in their house to "save the planet"... So they left the windows and doors open afte moving to CO to commune with nature.
A mountain lion walked thru their front door, right past them, grabbed their labrador from the back bedroom and dragged it back past them for a snack. Of course the transplants were morally opposed to private firearm ownership...
The punch line was "How did you like what nature had to say?" and "Theres how nature communes with idiots"