I hate "why" questions.

I generally have a strong dislike for most "why" based questions that aren't of a scientific nature. I much prefer phrasing all the questions I have in life with the other interrogative options. Who, how, what, when. Why just never seems to lead anywhere.

As you know, or don't, I have a strong desire to move not only from San Diego but from California entirely. 10 years has been enough! When I tell people who still love CA about this they often say, "Why would you ever want to leave this?!?", gesturing to the weather, sky and ocean.

Well one, I've lived a lot of other places and I'm not a weather wuss. Living in SD makes you weak in that regard. It lulls you with a false sense of ease and comfort. Like the couch when you should work out, or sweatpants worn outside of the house.

When interviewing for jobs in San Diego we always had salary discussion. In the bay area I was making $50 an hour as my base pay and routinely made 11 grand a month in overtime and call. So then to just move down the state a ways and be offered $28 per hour for the exact same job and be told by HR, "We pay you in susnshine.", well I should have known where that would lead. I did tell them right then, "Sunshine doesn't pay the rent!" (I also did not get that job)

Schools, infrastructure, politics, land use, recreation, nanny state mentality, dwindling resources. All reasons to leave and my familiarity has bred nothing but contempt. I've lived in other states and another country. Sorry to say it, but CA just ain't it anymore and hasn't been since about 1963....

BTW, almost everything in the picture below one would consider cool is either untrue, no longer exists or is illegal. Just one big falsehood meant to lull the dim into complacency.