Southern California has wonderful weather. Within the coastal zone it’s especially wonderful. The sun shines bright every day, there’s low humidity, and a cool breeze wafts off the Pacific Ocean making things perfectly pleasant. You just can’t beat it.
But for every sweet smelling rose there’s a stem full of jagged thorns…for every yang there’s always a yin. Whether we like it or not, that’s how the world works. In Southern California, the traffic, cost of living, and the large swaths of urban blight fall far short of perfection.
Still, it really isn’t all that bad…there are plenty of things that are plenty worse. The state government, state taxes, and the collective will of the voter, for example, are categorically abysmal. They penalize the financial rewards of hard work by taking money from those who’ve earned it. Then they spend it on money losing enterprises – like bullet trains and public pensions – that vaporize wealth from existence.
There’s no place in the world we can think of, with the possible exception of France, where the scum suckers’ suck with such voracious frenzy. Continue reading







