Raften wrote:
Lived in Nor Cal most of my life and never knew I am oppressed.
Since you've lived there for so long, you may not feel oppressed. Like I said, oppressed compared to rest of the country. I speak with a fair bit of sarcasm, but the truth is Cali has a great deal more restrictions than anywhere else. I agree that there's certainly a difference between north and south, but the fact is that its still the same state and same rules. They try to govern you based upon the governing needs/greeds of San Fran and LA and San Diego. Here in FL, we have some very restrictive environmental regs, but nowhere close to what you folks out there have. As far as droughts are concerned, we've had our fair share of those, but they don't last. And I've never had to live with water usage restrictions. Then again, we draw our water from a well so the only cost of that is the power it takes to run it. Come on over and we'll slip n slide or play in the sprinkler all day.;)