Help picking a city

[djnate]

Just know what your getting into moveing out here. The cost of living in cali is alot, especially in NorCal. Traffic gets worse every year, our air quality is horrendous, our gas prices are useually the highest in the country, overpopulation is fast becomming an issue in SoCal with all the immigration and we have alot of STUPID drivers! You can't go more than a year or two without getting read-ended by some 16 year old biotch driving daddys lexus.

Although with the economy in the state it's in now, it's a buyers market as far as real estate is concerned.

And there are definatly certain areas you might wanna stay away from, especially depending on your race. Oakland is not a good place to be if your white and well off. And as someone else pointed out, avoid inland/desert areas well known for there crime/methlabs. San Bernandino, Riverside, Lakeside, Temecula, Bakersfield ect... ect...

I'd suggest looking up "SB 420" on google. You can find specific cities and there own regulations on marijuana cards. Each city/county is different, some allow only 8 ounces, some a pound, and in some instances, theres no limit. Just gotta find the right spots

Also take into account what you like to do, do you enjoy hot weather and surfing waves on the beach? Do you like hot women wearing bikinis with no tan lines? Or do you like to snowboard in the winter?

Cali, love it and h8 it!

[leadmagnet]

It seems to me that many of the opinions in these types of "where to move" threads reflect more bigotry and ignorance than cogent thought. Do you like to be around a lot of people in a city environment or do you like the country? How important is temperature to you? Yes, the deserts can be brutal in the summertime. However, the rest of the year is downright hospitable and you don't have humankind breathing down your neck.

Tweakers and meth labs exist pretty much across the board regardless of whether you live on the coast or inland. Frankly, I don't have any bigger problem with them than I do with skid row alcoholics. They're all a pain in the keister. The folks who seem to harp most on tweakers are the drug bigots who assume that their drug of choice is so much better than anyone else's. (And no, I'm not a cheerleader for speed; or alcohol for that matter). To say that the desert communities have a higher rate per capita of tweakers and labs than anywhere else is simply ignorant, uninformed, and bigoted.

Keep in mind your priority is going to be work; assuming you're not independently wealthy or happy living out of a tent and eating pork and beans three meals a day. The job market sucks all over right now but the cost of living is usually much lower in the desert communities where at least you might be able to get a foot hold if you have some kind of financial income already in place (SSI, pension, etc).

Remember, the WHOLE STATE is a medical cannabis state. Yeah, we have problems county to county particularly as it relates to dispensary and co-op issues. SO GROW YOUR OWN. Soon there will be so many home grow operations, well, to qoute Peter Gabriel...

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher

Lead

[DiscoLies]

Be warned: Northern California and Southern California differ dramatically. You should compare your choices on a pro & con sheet or something like that.

[CaliGreens]

I've lived in the bay area for years and I moved to about two years ago. san diego in socal. I think norcal is a lot more relaxed than socal. But, in socal there is always something going down. I prefer sd over norcal any day. In norcal trees are usually way better.