All right, I've got to speak up here. I lived in Southern California the first 28 years of my life. Growing up next to the SP Mainline (now Metrolink's Ventura Subdivision) in Northridge in the 1970s and the hills of Glendale in the 1980s. These were the best times of my life! But when I was in Jr. High School in the Mid-1980s, I could see the writing on the wall, I knew that unless I inherited alot of money, and/or a house and/or property, I knew when I became an adult, I wasn't going to make it in California and was going to have to get out and the sooner the better. Starting in 1989 and form there on out until I moved to the South in 1998, I watched each year as California grew and grew and grew, and all the negative problems associated with it. It really changed for the worst. I didn't inherit alot of money, a house, property, so I headed to the Southeast. This is where I got my job I liked and wanted to do indefenately, got my first house, a nice car, and it was like being on vacation permanently. I then moved to the Midwest 6 years ago, and got an even better house, a better job, and went on vacation permanently again! I only have about a half dozen family members left in So. Cal. and they are living life in the Super Fast Lane, they are so swamped, barely keeping up with surviving, I don't hardly ever hear from them, so I have no reason to be back there anyway. My money goes double or more here, and the city I live in is frozen in time, it is like the two places in Cal. I mention above from then, but today. I don't like the 24/7 way overcrowded roads and freeways back in Cal. and it is the highest cost of living anywhere in the Country. Every time I go back anywhere in that state, I do not recognize it, I really don't know where I am. It is going to continue grow, expand and get worse, the jobs are going to become less and less available, and prices are going to keep going up and up and up there at a rapid pace in Cal. Again, for the people like Margaret SP Fan and some others, who are retired, have their house paid for, don't have to drive on the highways, have lots of family there, and are still living in a decent neighborhood, and receiving a decent income, this is a different story. Then there are some like Ted Munch, where their community is all they know, they have lived there all their life. But for us younger guys with hardly nothing, and don't like 24/7 rush hour on every road in sight, we go elsewhere and we love it. As for BOB2, there are tons of trains elsewhere too, great show they put on. Then there are some like Karl S. W. from Northern Cal., who were forced out because of their work/job, when California was still great, and that were away for so long, the could not detect the difference, who would fight and argue in defense of California till the end, they loved it so much. I still often wonder since he returned within the last few years, he can see difference as, in a negative way, it is the difference between night and day. All I can say is, I hope he had a house and alot of money that he hung onto since the 1960s, otherwise he is living "retirement check to retirement check" to pay for it. I know I'm not following in his steps.