Quote Originally Posted by VXIRONwoMAN View Post
...and why do a good portion of your generalizations of people have a bit to do about my background? BTW... YOU are WAAAAY off! Born and raised in So Cal, live in the Midwest now and if I had the funds to move back with Gill in tow, I wouldn't look back. (Jo ya got any spare rooms on that boat???) Eff the Midwest!
I'm with you Cece, I've been moved to Reno from Chicago for 2.5 years now and there is NO WAY I would come back. There would have to be some ridiculously enormous sum involved for me to even think about going back east. I honestly don't know how anyone could even begin to compare the East to the West. Just look at a map. The eastern US is like 3 times and crowded!! Gill is one lucky dude to have found someone willing to make that sacrifice!!! Now go convince him to move out west with you!!!

Quote Originally Posted by Marlin View Post
The only reason I mentioned it is that I just moved here to SC from San Diego 1 year ago this week. I lived in San Diego three different times. I was in Rancho Bernardo, Chula Vista, and Pacific Beach. At every house we lived in, we would go talk to our neighbors, some of whom had lived there for years, and none of them knew each other!!! How do you not know your neighbors? My wife and I are both from Missouri, and my wife's closest neighbors were 1/2 mile down the road, and they still knew all of them within a few miles. I guess it is just a cultural difference.
See, maybe it's a city thing, but man, people out here are WAAAAY more layed back than the people in Chicago. And the same goes for California. People are just super friendly and way more outgoing and open minded. Living in Chicago was like, put your head down, walk, and don't make eye contact. I also found living in the city very "click" oriented. I had my group of friends (that I have been friends with since childhood mind you) and that was really it. To me it was like, I don't know you, I don't want to know you and I don't care to know you. TOTALLY DIFFERENT VIBE out here, and imo, way cooler.

But you live in the "South" where it takes like 20 minutes to get a #2 cheeseburger meal at McDonalds, so I really can't compare.

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