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As a person of Californian domicile, I resent gull's statement about California. ;) I used to complain that nothing worked in California, and complain about excessive liberalism as a cause. Certainly, having considered myself a left wing liberal all my life, moving somewhere where my views at the time were the right of the mainstream was a bit unsettling. I still do think the left wing politics is a bit weird sometimes, for instance the bizarre insistence that increasing the supply of housing is what makes housing more expensive, or the mass transit system that shuts down shortly after midnight, when the trains are still quite crowded, because nobody would want to be out that late anyway. But mostly what I see, at least in my chunk of California, is something I've come to like. Some of the laws may be bizarre, but they're there because people cared. The live and let live and have lots of fun in the process attitude, as strange as it may seem to those wondering why those strange people can't just conform, makes life a lot more enjoyable. And, when the politics gets really strange, it still makes for good entertainment. I met a guy a few years ago in a little village in Italy, who said he had come back there from Rome because "here, life comes first." The Bay Area, or at least the less suburban parts of it, seems to do well at that too.
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