Andi Cody on wed 25 aug 99
Joyce, I have to agree with you; I've lived in San Diego for 27 years and
over the past few years my husband and I have "looked" at other places to
live that might be less expensive, less crowded, etc. But guess what, we
always find that after our forays into the "other" world, San Diego looks
best to us after all the looking around. San Diego is an expensive place
to live, but the beauty and fine climate compensate for the high cost.
The only other places I can imagine going are Montana or Colorado (not in
the cities however), but then I think of my poor thin Californiated blood
and am pretty sure that I might not survive a full winter elsewhere (even
though I grew up in Denver). There are things that I don't like about
California (traffic, high cost, etc), but there is a seductiveness to this
state and SO many different climates, cultures and places that to just
dismiss the entire state is short sighted. By the way, some time when we
are on our travels around the state, I would love to meet you. I
thoroughly enjoy your comments and your descriptions of life in the Mojave.
Joyce Lee said:>
California has problems, true; and has too many people, true....but
>that's a wide brush dipped in a pot of ignorance you use when writing
>off ALL of California.....from the Mexican border, San Diego, L.A., the
>Mojave desert, the gold country, SanFran, all the towns of the Sierras,
>Death Valley, Mt. Whitney, the hundreds of lakes and small lake
>communities, the northern and southern beaches....don't really want more
>people (until I meet them, that is, then want all of them)......but am
>offended that no clayarter defends this position. What if we said this
>about the Dakotas, the unbelievably stressed east coast, Oregon with its
>cockamamie laws and total arrogance about Californians (until they meet
>us, that is, then they're very cool).....guess it's just part of the
>package of being one of the "golden people," that everybody feels they
>can publicly make rude statements about a whole state's worth of
>individuals. Each of us can only speak from our own experiences, but my
>experience is pretty vast and I know a ton of extremely community-minded
>people/artists/potters. Shame on you.
>
thanks,
Andi
email: mailto:acody@ucsd.edu
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