physics said:
It's not as bad as those above say it is.
I didn't mean to offend - it's not
bad per se, just a bit of a (not wholly unexpected) culture shock going from the 3rd largest economy in the world to a bunch of little towns where the little local grocery store's out of business and boarded up and you've got to drive thirty miles to get milk and eggs.
I hate California for its politics, the attitudes of (most) of its residents and the thousands and thousands of pages of convoluted, ridiculous legislation and regulation that come out of Sacramento for any trivial little thing, but I'll admit that having several dozen electronics, grocery and department chain stores within a fifteen minute drive is mighty convenient.
The problem arises when there isn't anyplace left for the grass to grow through the asphalt...
Southern Utah, for me, is a nice mix of availability (I've got a decent selection of stores here, and St. George has many more about forty minutes down the freeway) and unspoiled beauty - God's country indeed.
Regolith said:
...is because a lot of them seem to be trying to make Oregon into California 2.0.
Unfortunately, they're trying to do that everywhere they move - and they're moving in droves.
Sell the manor for a cool few million, move to a "quaint" little "rustic" state whose savage inhabitants are in need of conversion to enlightened liberal philosophy, buy a swath of gorgeous land and bulldoze half of it as the pad for an even larger, gaudier manor, and begin preaching the ministry...