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I still enjoy living here
Author: Howard
Date: 01-05-2012 - 12:04
Mike Swanson Wrote:
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> Makes me glad I left in 1995 and never came back;
> there's no way I could live in the Bay Area or the
> San Joaquin Valley (or anywhere else in
> California, for that matter) after all of the crap
> that's happened since, and certainly not with the
> elected idiots continuing to ruin things there.
> And no, I am not slamming anyone who still lives
> in CA; I realize a lot of you have jobs, family
> there, or a dozen other perfectly good reasons not
> to leave (or why you can't leave, as the case may
> be). I was born and raised there when it was still
> a decent place to live and work, and if California
> hadn't gone downhill like it has I'd still be
> there. It has though, and it really hurts to have
> seen it happen, even if only from a distance, and
> it angers me to see that the same sort of clowns
> (or the very same clowns, including Governor
> Moonbeam) who helped cause it all (or did nothing
> to stop it, which amounts to the same thing) are
> still at it; term limits don't help much when one
> idiot gets replaced by another.
>
I still enjoy living here and glad I did not listen to all the negative anti-rail comments about the Santa Cruz Branch Line posted here. The last two years photographing the line was a grand experience.
Sierra Northern Power On The UP Santa Cruz Branch
[www.westcoastrailforums.com]
Washout Repair Progress – Santa Cruz Branch Line
[www.westcoastrailforums.com]
SERA 48 not in Watsonville Jct.
[www.westcoastrailforums.com]
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> Makes me glad I left in 1995 and never came back;
> there's no way I could live in the Bay Area or the
> San Joaquin Valley (or anywhere else in
> California, for that matter) after all of the crap
> that's happened since, and certainly not with the
> elected idiots continuing to ruin things there.
> And no, I am not slamming anyone who still lives
> in CA; I realize a lot of you have jobs, family
> there, or a dozen other perfectly good reasons not
> to leave (or why you can't leave, as the case may
> be). I was born and raised there when it was still
> a decent place to live and work, and if California
> hadn't gone downhill like it has I'd still be
> there. It has though, and it really hurts to have
> seen it happen, even if only from a distance, and
> it angers me to see that the same sort of clowns
> (or the very same clowns, including Governor
> Moonbeam) who helped cause it all (or did nothing
> to stop it, which amounts to the same thing) are
> still at it; term limits don't help much when one
> idiot gets replaced by another.
>
I still enjoy living here and glad I did not listen to all the negative anti-rail comments about the Santa Cruz Branch Line posted here. The last two years photographing the line was a grand experience.
Sierra Northern Power On The UP Santa Cruz Branch
[www.westcoastrailforums.com]
Washout Repair Progress – Santa Cruz Branch Line
[www.westcoastrailforums.com]
SERA 48 not in Watsonville Jct.
[www.westcoastrailforums.com]
