D.E.Bishop wrote:
I just read the post about RV friendly cities and states. Such venom from East of the Mississippi and folks that can't even spell California. For awhile the California bashing was so bad that the Mods were closing posts bashing California. Now it seems that the haters are given free rein to disparage at will.
I really never heard a good word about Kansas, Kansas was for no particular reason the 49th state we visited and we were blown away. My wife and I were raised in the Basin and we really don't have a horizon. Buildings to the West with coastal hills, mountains the other 3/4 of the perimeter. Kansas has a 360 degree horizon and it is spectacular. I could spend a year photographing farms during the different seasons.
I was raised in the Los Angeles Basin, born in 1940 in Hollywood, I was a pre teen before I ever visited any other state. I did live in Hawaii, and thank you for paying for it(stationed at the Submarine Base in Pearl Harbor) I summered in Florence Or when there wasn't a stop sign in town. We have owned property there and foolishly sold it but our family is here, my families history goes back to a time Pomona didn't even have a reliable water works, when my Dad's brother and sisters were born at home. I am discouraged by liberal tilt California has taken and sometimes the traffic drives me nuts but over the years we have met and become friends from all over the world, to a person, they are all impressed with California.
A Kiwi sitting along the river in Yosemite at 10,000 feet in shorts and a T shirt in wonder, he would never try that in NZ. The fantastic weather in the Santa Inez Valley really thrilled a friend who interned at a horse breeding farm there. She was able to visit other ranches and folks freely taught her about breed horses and training them.
I'm not fond of Texas, but it does have it's great points. Palo Duro for one is so spectacular. The Gulf Coast is remarkable. I cannot and I never would speak unkindly of the unending vastness of the cattle ranching area, and it's a little repetitive after 4 or 5 hours of driving.
I find myself torn between wishing those of you who are vocal about hating California being able to enjoy the wonders and beauty of our state and wishing you would stay home and just shut up. But I am without doubt sick and tired of you posting your hate in such valuable forums as this. I would just like to have your posts sent off to your own little place to hate us and not have to wade through your tirades.
I am sure this post will be poofed and that's okay, at least I got to get it off my chest.
I agree with you. I've seen it more often than not. You don't hear these types of comments about other states (of either political leaning) but there is tons of them about California. It used to irritate me, now it just makes me more proud to be a Californian.
