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I'm a country boy who grew up in the midwest and came here when a company I worked for in Portland got acquired. I've been stuck here for 8 long years, now, and
by xb95 14y ago
I'm a country boy who grew up in the midwest and came here when a company I worked for in Portland got acquired. I've been stuck here for 8 long years, now, and constantly dream about going somewhere else.
California is fine, the SV is okay, there are certainly jobs and lots of opportunity and at this point I've built quite the network ... but seriously, I miss being able to go outside and see a field of corn from time to time.
One day...
- jmathai 14y agoThe entire space between San Jose and LA is farmland :)
- cmelbye 14y agoHey now, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara are places too.
- doyoulikeworms 14y agoHey now, farms are places too.
- russell 14y agoNah. A few minutes outside San Luis Obispo, it's nothing but cows. I live in Cambria, 40 minutes north of SLO. I used to be able to look out my living room window and watch the cows until they turned the East-West ranch into a park. And a few miles north you get zebras.
- jmathai 14y agoI take highway 5. If you take the 1 then there's all sorts of cool stuff along the way. Not to say that farms aren't cool. I actually look in amazement at how good farmers have gotten at growing crops the entire drive down.
- BudVVeezer 14y agoBorn and raised in the Midwest, moved to SoCal for two years so my wife could complete her master's. We both absolutely hated the area, moved back out to "the sticks" and haven't looked back. Cost of living is lower, quality of life is higher.
- jlgaddis 14y agoAs I was reading your comment, I glanced out the window to look at an Amish buggy cruising by.