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I'm nitpicking but it is demonstrably false that residents will feel no impact from water shortages. People who have lived through the last few droughts know t
by 01100011 6y ago
I'm nitpicking but it is demonstrably false that residents will feel no impact from water shortages. People who have lived through the last few droughts know this. They may cut agriculture, by far the majority water consumer in the state, but it will still mean restrictions on yard irrigation, car washing, bill increases, and constant nagging. Now, anyone who plants a lawn in CA needs to reexamine their priorities, but still, it is just one more quality of live impact from living in this state.
By far, the worst thing about the Bay Area is the stress level. This is not a comfortable place for the majority of the residents and it shows. Happiness is largely driven by one's expectations, and the marketing and image of CA drives those quite high. There is, I think, quite a bit of unhappiness arising from the CA image vs CA reality. On top of that, you are competing with other people trying to live that dream and working quite hard to do so.
I think CA still has many strong points, but if I wasn't paying a fixed alimony payment I would have sacrificed the higher income for more happiness and left years ago. I spent half my life here and enjoyed what I think were the last of the good times in CA.
- shuckles 6y agoI did say water for consumption. Lawns are a bad idea and should be replaced with artificial turf or low water grasses. In the droughts throughout the 2000s (I lived through all), water use was curbed down to some PSAs, penalties for watering yards, and shutoff of some public fountains. That is far from a scarcity situation.
- jeffbee 6y ago> but it will still mean restrictions In the East Bay, EBMUD has not ever imposed restrictions of any kind even in the severe droughts of the 70s. The most drastic action they have taken has been to raise marginal prices for large consumers, an altogether reserved response to drought. EBMUD's total water deliveries have fallen by one third in the last 50 years, despite the fact that the population in the service area has doubled, and current demand is only half of current supply. Municipal water is about the last thing someone in a Bay Area city needs to worry about.
- blackflame7000 6y agoWhat are you talking about? During the last drought there was a statewide mandate by Jerry Brown to stop watering your laws.
- jeffbee 6y agoThat's the sort of thing you might believe if you get all of your news from Fox News or Breitbart, but it has no basis in fact.
- overboard2 6y agohttps://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-snowpack-20150331-story.html https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-snowpack-201503...
- jeffbee 6y agoYes, and did you read it? Nobody was ordered to stop watering their lawns.
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- blackflame7000 6y agoEveryone on my street let their laws die but I guess that was muh far-right-wing conspiracy theory right?