I Love Southern California
I'm sitting at my computer thinking about what blog I'm going to write when I realize it's July 18th, it's a sunny day around seventy five degrees. I also realize I live ten minutes from the beach and get the breeze coming off the ocean when I walk the dog at around 3PM.
I feel so spoiled, but I also believe I deserve it. You see, I grew up in Philadelphia where July 18th was really hot and muggy. You didn't have to press your shirt before you went out because the humidity would do the job for you. Oh yea, I could drive to the beach, but that was over an hour away in Atlantic City.
Then, for business, I moved to Rochester New York. I lived there one year, one month and one day. When I arrived at the end of September it was sunny for ten days and then it rained and snowed until May 5th. One hundred and twenty six inches of snow that year - UGH!!. Wow, where was Global Warming when I needed it. The summers also sucked so when I moved back to Philadelphia I thought I was in heaven.
One day my boss asked me to come to a meeting in Southern California. They put me up at the Redondo Beach Inn. It was December 12. The morning before the meeting I was nude looking out on the beach and Pacific Ocean in eighty degree weather. I asked myself: "most of the people I'm going to meet live around here. This isn't a vacation place - people actually live here.
That was it! I told myself I'm moving to Southern California. Forty years later I'm still here and still appreciating every day. I'm sure people who live elsewhere believe where they live is the best. I know when I was back east we used to joke that Southern California people were summer hummers. They had no work ethic; they were brainless and just went through life humming away.
Wow was I wrong. If you're retired or you work where you can avoid the traffic or you're homeless, this is the place to be. I've always said: Happiness is where you make it, but:
It Wouldn't Hurt If You Found That Happiness In Southern California.
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