Southern California resident questions..

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by TicTocDragon

All of the above are definitely good reasons .

Oh yeah, even that barechested last one? Hmmmm.






As an ex-NewYorker, many things appeal to me about SoCal. The civility, the relative laidbackness. The year-round summer. In "wintertime" I can swim in the sun-drenched ocean in the morning and sled down slowclad mountains in the afternoon. Yeah, I don't do that a lot, but you get my point.

I don't take much advantage of the hundreds of nightclubs and billions of restaurants anymore ... but they're here - - and they add to the cultural vitality of this place.

I watch my movie premiers inside Grauman's Chinese Theater, and do my themeparking at the Happiest Place on Earth. Celebrity sightings are so common they barely interest me any more.

Los Angeles is a world-class city that's laid out more like one big suburban neighborhood. Yeah, some people complain about the generic sprawl ... but coming from a run-down, dirty, skyscraper-laden city - - the relative flatness, newness, and open-spaceness of L.A. is very appealing to me.


Most of all, there are so many people drawn here - - it's the modern age's melting pot. And so, of those teeming masses yearning to breathe warm, I've been privileged to meet and befriend dozens of the most friendly, warmhearted, generous, quirky and interesting people in the world.



Here's to Southern California!