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I've lived there long enough to consider it a home, but not long enough to become a local. From my point of view, the words that best describe Santa Cruz are "a
by jltsiren 2y ago
I've lived there long enough to consider it a home, but not long enough to become a local. From my point of view, the words that best describe Santa Cruz are "a missed opportunity".
You see a place that could be nice but isn't. It's rough, there are too many cars everywhere, and the locals don't care. (Or they pretend they care, but they don't bother making things work.)
And because it's a small city, you can't avoid facing how remote California is. Pretty much everyone else is at least three time zones away.
- reverius42 2y ago> how remote California is. Pretty much everyone else is at least three time zones away Remote from what? California is one of the most populous states. Just within the same time zone there are tens of millions of people.
- jltsiren 2y agoRemote from the rest of the world. Apart from the people who live near me, few people I interact with are in the same or nearby time zones. And when I travel somewhere, the flight is almost always long. Compared to something like East Coast, Europe + Middle East, or East Asia, California feels remote and small.