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Just out of curiosity, what small towns in California might be
recommended for (1) good place to reti (2) good place to garden.
I'm currently living in a tornado alley and it doesn't seem to me to
be a very good place to settle down. I'd like to live inland.

Thanks in advance!

CA is a place you retire FROM. Unless your a multi=millionaire. Very high
prices, high taxes, high prices, and the people suck. If you may be sending
kids to school, they'll become idiots. It's the land of being Politically
Correct. I would go to the NW - Or, WA. ID. Up state NY is very nice (buy a
4-wheel jeep). But CA would be my last choice. I live in San Diego, CA.

San Diego, a Navy city, a Republican City. California's version of
red-necks. Cops pack 45s. Their Representative "Duke" Cunningham was
just sentenced for selling defense contracts and the Fee Bees are
looking at the city to find out where the civil retirement funds went
to. The airport is a lot of fun too. Your plane will drop down among the
high rises before it lands. Exciting stuff. On the other hand, if you
are just passing through, there is Africa USA, the San Diego Zoo,
promenades along long sandy beaches and, a little place I like to call
Mexico.

There are good people who live there like my brother-in-law and my
brother lives just to the north. But then he is ex-marine (if there is
such a thing) and an ex-cop, so it kind of figures. He grows bananas in
his garden. No, not goes but, grows bananas.

Bob should take-up surfing and relax.

To the North East is Idyllwild, a community high in a pine forest,
overlooking Palms Springs and some serious desert.

As you move north in California, there is more and more of live and let
be attitude, until you get to us tree huggers.

- Bill

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