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Possibly 8 and 9 on my list. If they can avoid slow starts, it'll be interesting.
Belicek makes the adjustments. Josh Allen still has to show he isn't a flash in the pan.
Possibly 8 and 9 on my list. If they can avoid slow starts, it'll be interesting.
Born and Raised in Long Beach. Went to Poly High for a brief moment in the mid 90's then transferred out due to the escalating gang violence in the LBC. I live and bleed the LBC. knew of Snoop and Warren G back in their heyday. USC was my first sports love. They weren't good with the tail end of John Robinson and the likes of Marinovich and great players like Seau and McGinnest.
My pops took us to an equal amount of Rams and Raiders games, but I like the ultra tribalism of college sports more growing up. Played little league at the same time as the legendary Sean Burroughs-led Long Beach teams. They were sick. A few of the players on their team were in our league and were the ringers. Went to USC for most of undergrad. My pops' was diagnosed with cancer after my 3rd semester there, so I transferred to CSULB to be closer to home and take him to his chemo/doctor's appointments. The Pete Caroll/Leinart/Bush/Lendale USC teams were a great distraction as my father fought cancer at the first part of the 00's. Hence, why I took to liking the Seahawks was Caroll being coach there and rooted for Bush and Leinart as well.
L.A. is home. So much of it is still lovely and while it has its scars, it's often gets bad publicity. The homeless thing is appalling, but it has been an issue long before now. It's been around since Reagan slashed the once sterling state mental health system here. Couple that with the drug war, up and down of the economy since the 80's, 2008 and now the pandemic, you have a magnified homeless population that is often not welcoming to any local. Let alone a visitor. I volunteered for my grad school project with the homeless of Long Beach and it was a really eye-opening experience just how wide ranging the reasons and locales many of the homeless hail from.
We're going to a Dodger game this Tuesday. It's the first one since 2019. I would like to check out SoFi soon. Maybe this year. How do you think the Cowboys are going to fare this year? Is Dak's shoulder a concern? The NL West is crazy compe ive and it is sad to see the Angels stall in mediocrity when they have 2 of the best talents in baseball and no pitching to speak of.
I'd like to visit Austin someday. I have friends from out here that moved to Dallas in the Little Elm/Oak area. Not sure where exactly, but they work for Toyota. Also want to visit the Buck-Ees (sp) and get some real BBQ.
LA (not Santa Monica, but the rest of it) was very hot and dry when I visited. Definitely a high income inequality thing there. Seems like very little middle class; everything is either upscale or downright ghetto. I agree with the baseball stuff. I think the Cowboys are no doubt the best team in the division with by far the best QB and we will win the division easily with double digit wins if Dak and the majority of the team stays healthy this year.
I don't recommend Austin at all. It makes L.A. traffic seem like a breeze in comparison. The high density stuff is all in the same place, it's a poorly planned city, plus they defunded the police and gang violence is on the rise as well. If you go to DFW, stay out of Dallas and hit up Fort Worth and the nice suburbs like Plano and Frisco. Also Denton is a cute little city, I lived there for 3 years. Buc-ee's is overrated and overpriced, and the gas quality isn't very good (got 45.2 summer MPG with Buc-ee's standard unleaded gas vs. 49.7 MPG with other brands like Valero, QT, Chevron, S and Texaco).
Weather five miles from coastline and twenty plus miles from the coastline always drastically different in California.
yep. I visited Crescent City CA for a day and it was arguably the most beautiful little city I've ever been in in the United States, and I've been to most places in the USA. I could practically live there if it wasn't for the high quake and tsunami risk, high gas and housing prices.. Cool, crisp temperatures even in the heart of summer... redwoods... gorgeous beaches... and pro-GOP / Trump signs in the city center ("Save America ; Impeach A Democrat")... it's my personal favorite place in the entire state. 10/10 place to visit.
Spurtacular the day after I visited LA I was heading back East on i-10 and at 9PM at night in San Bernardino and Desert Hot Springs/Palm Springs the temp went from 87 in LA to 109 degrees in like half an hour of driving... crazy. I don't get why anyone would ever want to live in the Inland "Empire"... you have all the cons of living in CA without any of the pros (namely, temperate weather)... you're basically paying CA prices on everything and CA taxes to live in Phoenix junior.
The Inland Empire was last to really be touched by the explosion in cost. You could get a much bigger abode on what was once a middle class two income household out here in the 90's. Housing was inherently cheaper out there 20-25 years ago and you had those moving eastward from the likes of L.A. and South from S.F. to places like Menifee and Corona and Temecula.
Yea, it's a sh** show like that. Same temperature swing driving from Seal Beach to say Santa Fe Springs in a half hour.
IE is not Phoenix, which is still five to seven degrees hotter on average. High Desert would be more comparable to Phoenix; but at least out there you're closer to Vegas. It really makes for cheap weekend getaways. But if you're out there, you probably want to move to Texas or Vegas unless you have friends/family in SoCal or an affinity for visiting LA or OC.
Right. My point exactly. Unless you're on medi-cal or have other things that tie you down to california, it's simply much more cost efficient to live in another warm state like AZ, TX, GA, FL instead of living inside of CA but too far east of the California coast.
If I had to pick a city in California to settle down permanently it'd be Crescent City, but I digress. Perhaps there isn't a great job market, but I'm a work from home guy anyways and since I'm senior level they'd pay for me to travel to the bay or wherever plus interest if they needed me to.
Vegas/Nevada in general has become almost as expensive as L.A. these days, at least in terms of housing, gas, commodities etc. and the summers are HOT-HOT-HOT in Vegas. Vegas is worth visiting outside of the summer months but I don't see any point living there since the left wing has pretty much completely taken over that state and implemented California-esque policy there which has caused similar inflation there.
Crescent City is beautiful. If you can work from home, then yes, anywhere would be a nascent upgrade for any particular person/family. Nevada outside of Reno and Las Vegas has cheap areas but like you said about CC, the work atmosphere isn't really conducive of living anything other than a meager existence. The eastward migration of Californians to Vegas has been a no-surprise as I have a few friends whose family own property out there and some have flipped and others have bought more property ahead of the "Californication" of Nevada. That Reliant Stadium is nice though, sorry for the derailment of the thread.
Californication of Nevada is a real thing though. Gas prices actually went up between metro parts of CA vs. metro parts of NV. NV has no state taxes and has to make it up some way I guess besides just all the sin taxes (gambling, casinos, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, pros ution) that are legal there.
the only place I downright hated in CA was the San Jose / Silicon Valley / bay area. Can't even get gas even though it's all over $4 the pumps are empty (I stopped at 4 places that the people inside said they were closed), the guys that run the gas stores are extremely sketchy, they don't have restrooms except for outside and you have to leave your car keys in exchange for the bathroom door key, no thanks), gasbuddy is unreliable, the people are rude, the drivers are awful there. LA actually was pretty nice in comparison.
San Jose is a glorified hole pretty much.
SF has been nice whenever I've went; but the stories and images mount. Silicon Valley is fine to look at; but it's the biggest caste system in America.
All in all I was much more impressed with the LA area than the entire Bay area, even though I went to the bay area first (was headed south from Seattle on ca-101. ca-1 and such roads; finally ended up on i-5, stayed at a motel 6 in Lost Hills which was surprisingly a nice place and affordable, and then spent the next day in and around LA, traffic wasn't so bad even on a weekday) and Compton/north Long Beach area was a hole.
Crescent City is my #1 in California... followed by Oxnard (saw a part of a Cowboys practice without paying), Santa Monica and the Persian Square of LA. Hollywood is ok too but the roads are winding and hard to navigate. I went to the celebrity observation deck drive thing too, it was fine, at least I got a free parking spot. Needles area in far east San Bernardino county near the Mojave is a fine area too, though everything there is uber pricey. There's a cool little dispensary called "I <3 THC" there. I wasn't at all impressed by the Inland Empire and wouldn't understand why anyone would want to live from East LA all the way through Indio, joshua tree area, going east of LA on i-10.
Arizona is much more thrilling though... I-17 was crafted as a sub-2 hour beeline from Phoenix to Flagstaff and back, with a whopping 7500 ft elevation difference and 50 degree temperature change in under 2 hours. I got to sleep in a sleeping bag near the top of Humphreys Peak north of Flagstaff, elevation around 12000 ft. The drive up that hill in my sedan was rough, especially at night, but I made it and back down the next morning. All in all, a worthwhile trip.
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Wayyyy to many wins for the Texans tbh
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