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I'm a native Californian, living in the San Francisco bay area. This is a very beautiful area, though the people here are pretty wacko. Just look at our real estate market - $750,000 for a 1200 square foot "fixer-upper" house. Worse, the house will sell within a week...maybe for a price that's higher than the original asking price. We pay higher prices than the rest of the nation for most everything.

It seems that most people here think that we are grossly under-taxed, and every year, the voters approve a new multi-billion dollar bond issue for our schools -- to fix the same problems that last years voter-approved multi-billion dollar bond was supposed to fix! I'm not necessarily against all taxes, just the corrupt, mismanagement of how the taxes are actually spent. It's so bad that neither politicians nor government accounting can tell how much tax money goes where. So they just fight for more taxes when "there isn't enough money". The people here NEVER ask where it goes. Let's just say that the politicians friends are getting very wealthy, while I still run over the same pothole in the road that I have for the last 3 years, while paying over eighty cents a gallon in gas tax that's supposed to fix the roads...And we have the "governator" aka Arnold Schwarzenegger, running our state now. As I wrote, the place is beautiful, the people are a little nuts.

I enjoy the redwoods (Santa Cruz mountains) and the mountain highways for bicycling, motorcycle riding, and for the views. I hope to start power boating in the San Francisco Bay soon. And did I forget

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