I lived in dallas for a while about 5 years back. I'm not currently in cali, but from there just north of San Diego.

I agree about the pretension of Dallas, but I plan to be off the grid to the north. I'm not one to be seen out in public too often, so they can go ahead with their fancyness while I smoke myself to oblivious happyness.

"Can't see it from my house" comes to mind there.