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Subject: [Leica] Living in California
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sat May 21 21:03:41 2005

jeez marc lighten up!!

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


on 5/21/05 8:32 PM, Marc James Small at msmall@infionline.net wrote:

> At 01:21 PM 5/20/05 -0700, Douglas Herr wrote:
>> Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/05/19/_L3U2504.jpg>
>>> <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/05/19/_L3U2536.jpg>  Yup,
> American Goldfinch
>>> <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/05/19/_L3U2565.jpg>
>>> <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/05/19/_L3U2599.jpg>
>>> <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/05/19/_L3U2625.jpg>
>> 
>>> <http://www.nps.gov/pore/>
>> 
>> These photos - a half-hour from San Francisco - are another answer to the
> question "why anyone would live in such a lunatic world as that which you
> seem to inhabit?"
> ===============================
> 
> Doug
> 
> I am a 1968 graduate of Novato High School in Marin County and was born in
> California, unlike most of you would are praising it to the skies.  I spent
> a lot of time at Point Reyes and there was an epic camping trip three of us
> took right after graduation -- and only one of us still resides in the
> state, the other two of us being located around 140 miles apart on the East
> Coast.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I do like four real seasons and the uncertainty of knowing whether next
> week will bring us a blizzard or a hurricane, though both are rather
> uncommon in these gentle foothills of the Appalachian mountains.  We enjoy
> a heavy rainshower when we get it, as we are not forced to endure a
> four-month monsoon, and we enjoy a sunny day when it comes as it can be a
> rarity.  Spring means something here, as it only comes once a year.  Und so
> weiter.
> 
> Our cost of living is minimal.  My house is worth around $400,000 here, and
> is regarded as a bit of a mansion by local standards, albeit it is in a
> transitional part of town.  A similar house in San Francisco would probably
> bear an honest freight of a million or two.  Hell, if I lived in
> California, I'd probably have to work for a living instead of being able to
> spend days on end goofing off on the Internet.
> 
> And we do not endure canyon fires killing people and earthquakes and houses
> sliding into the seas during a rainstorm.  And we do not have to put up
> with a police officer citing us when we flip someone off for doing
> something stupid in traffic.  Around here, you do that at your own risk, as
> many of the locals do carry firearms, but so be it:  I rarely flip someone
> off, and I have never been shot at, so I guess it is a wash.
> 
> Variety is truly the spice of life.  I am delighted that there are folks
> who wish to reside in my natal state but, such a residence is not for me,
> and so be it.
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
> 
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