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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Ah, but dear, we've found that folks who immigrate to California are just 
plain weird and then when they move elsewhere other folks think they are 
Californians and blame their weirdness on CA <g>

I mean, it's like the gal I used to work with who was from Texas.  Texas 
this, Texas that, Texas the other thing.  Whine, whine, whine.  Texas is so 
great, blah, blah, blah.  Well, for crying out loud, move back if it was so 
great.  We sure aren't keeping ya here was my reply.

And that's o.k., I just find it interesting.  Particularly since I've never 
met a "perfectly fine Chicagoan" and can't figure out why anyone with any 
sense would want to live there <g>  And, yes, I've been there and left as 
quickly as possible!

I much prefer to live with plain speaking folks with lots of elbow room and 
*real* trees <g>

And, y'all come out and visit and meet some *real* Californians.  Those 
whose families have been here for not just a generation or two but for a few 
thousand years.

I guess we've become a "weird" magnet.  I just wish folks wouldn't consider 
all those weird transplants to be Californians.  And that Southern CA wasn't 
how the whole state was judged.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] A safe place, Storrs, Connecticut


> Lynda protests:
>
> <<All of California is NOT Southern California and there are
> whole areas that have never had an earthquake, a flood, a mudslide or
> anyother thing happen.  And since when is an earthquake a weather 
> problem?>>
>
> I'm sure there are parts of California that are geologically stable.
> Speaking, however, from the point of view of a Midwesterner, I've noticed
> that Midwesterners who move to California get Californiaized.
>
> Just for example, my late husband's 46-year-old niece -- a Minnesota 
> native
> married to an Iowa native -- decided to produce children and succeeded. 
> The
> babies, now about 6 months old, are lovely. We recently all congregated in
> the Northwoods of Michigan, and sleeping arrangements were made quite
> complicated because the sleep coach had ordered the twins to be put where 
> no
> light could penetrate. Grandma and I chewed off half our respective 
> tongues
> so as not to interfere and introduce sense into the arrangements.
>
> The same sort of thing has happened to perfectly fine Chicagoans who moved
> to San Francisco. The only Cal ex-pat that I know of who is finally edging
> back to the real world is my friend Leslie; she moved to Nicaragua where 
> she
> seems to have made it back to normal.
>
> Marie
>
> PS: Lynda, this is not a snap judgment on you. I wouldn't do that without
> spending some time with you. I'm sure that California has a majority of
> sensible people or it wouldn't survive.
>
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