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from February 18, 2014
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February 18, 2014: Move It On Over
Since I first saw Southern California I've harbored a desire to move there. Yes, I had to see it myself. I could lie and say I was seduced much earlier than that, by Beach Boys records, by TV shows and movies depicting the "California lifestyle"; by friends who'd gone and swore they'd never come back. But, like many of you, I took an early and deep dislike to the sun and fun stereotype and the California airheads who pursued same. I looked down on the place and felt nothing serious could ever go on there. Then, in 2000, I visited Kaz, the genius behind the cartoon Underworld and the reason I'm at WFMU (in 1986 I co-hosted The Nightmare Lounge with Kaz and it was the beginning of my radio career). Kaz was out there temporarily for a job, staying with a friend in the Hollywood Hills. The place put the zap on my head. I found myself, like so many others, seduced by the weather, the topography, the architecture, the history, the stars and the laid back feel. Now Kaz lives in Hollywood, of all places, and with the way the Winter of 2013 - 2014 has been playing out here in New Jersey, I'd grab the wife and everything important to us and head out there tomorrow. Life, of course, is no longer that easy. Picking up and relocating - especially across the country - is a major life change. But I have friends who've done it, who've left the Northeast and gone to Seattle, to Portland, to Los Angeles, to New Orleans. And they're not coming back. It got me thinking. Those of you who have relocated: How difficult was it? Do you regret it or is it the best thing you've ever done? How far away did you move? And for the rest of us: Are you still in the same general area where you were born? If you were to relocate, where would you go? And what are some reasons for staying put (please don't say "snow")? Joining me by phone from the City of Angels is my relocated friend, Kaz.
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Mike East:
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anne:
Carmichael:
Mike East:
Carmichael:
mariano:
Whooda:
I lived and studied and raised my family in Sacramento, CA but those days are over.
LovecraftDude888:
Carmichael:
Whooda:
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Mike East:
Whooda:
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dale:
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Carmichael:
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mike east:
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Carmichael:
Whooda:
InBrkly:
another Chris sez:
Sunny mostly but… there are rain seasons. Followed by mudslides. There is the wind season, Santa Ana's, the Devils winds, followed by the fire season.
All the same. I intend to go back. Twenty some odd years in NY has become tiresome.
dale:
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Carmichael:
Whooda:
another Chris sez:
Sure you can still do SIRIUS and WFMU but you could also do time at one of the other Greatest Stations in the Nation!
Go for it! You'll love it. Screw the snow.
LovecraftDude888:
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Foolbert:
Thank-you, Chris, for the gun mini-rant. I think you're exactly right: the more guns, the more opportunity for death. Gun lovers act as if there were Good People and Bad People and the Good People will never do anything wrong...it's not like that, nearly any person is one gun, one bad day, a couple of drinks, and an argument at a bus-stop or with your spouse from killing or maiming someone so <em>easily</em> that it's not funny, or being so killed or maimed.
Regardless of what TV and media might tell you constantly and daily, there are really, in most neighbourhoods, very few bad, violent, actors---this means that you generally have more to worry about from large numbers of well-armed and to-date-o.k. people than from the Bad Guys...even in much more dangerous places, serious violence is most likely heading your way from a friend or a lover or a relative you've been able to tolerate up to that point...otherwise you wouldn't be near them.
(I once commented on a phone app that promised to use sex-offender registry data to 'See the face of the person most likely to molest your son or daughter!' that a mirror would, on average, do a better job.)
There are times when I think the severity of the gun laws should be calibrated according to how many people would be injured or killed if you were to shoot the weapon in question in random directions at the busiest time of day...what makes sense for Montana doesn't make sense for Soho.