Born and raised in So-Cal. Went to college here. Worked at a well known amusement park while in college.
It was terrific.
That was then. It is now terrible.
Once I can convince my wife that we needn't be so close to our kids/grand-kids - we are GONE. Taxes, gas prices, cost of living, and the list goes on - and the public schools? I would not let them watch a pet, that someone else owned, and that I did not like. To say this area has turned into an area with nice weather, but with stupid politics, absurd prices and filled with a buch of liberal A-holes - would be an unfair statement to the other (non-California) A-holes.