[Leica] Living in California

[drodgers7798 at comcast.net (David Rodgers)]

Mark,

When the Spanish missionaries first explored California they claimed the 
Central Valley could never be settled. It's desert in the summer and a 
sea in the spring. Amazing what a few dams will do. Not that one could 
be built today.

The Central Valley currently has some of the least affordable housing in 
the country. The splendid metropolis of Fresno, I think, ranks close to 
the top. Reminds me of 1989 when California residential Real Estate was  
highly leveraged, and perhaps over-priced.

Live it or hate it, California is unique. It's a country within a 
country.  I'm waiting for someone to push for the reintroduction of 
Grizzley Bears, which were very populous in the Golden State.

DaveR

Marc James Small wrote:

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>California is a state of lunatic politics, idiotic social developments,
>grand self-importance, and not much else.  The weather is just plain boring
>in the populated parts of the state.  The laws are simply offensive to
>anyone holding the most basic concepts of personal liberty and
>responsibility as being of any import.  The state's infrastructure has
>failed to keep up with the population growth.  &c &c.
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