[Hamucevasiop]

^ Every state has environmental regulations --many of them idiotic-- but California has the smart variety.

Southern California may be ghastly, but the rest of the state is wonderfully unspoiled compared with most U.S. states --like a European country. There are thousands of square miles of preserved scenic beauty and wilderness, you can drive for hundreds of miles on the coast highway without seeing a billboard or a parking lot, and there are such diverse and interesting municipalities as San Francisco, Carmel, Berkeley, Bolinas, Mendocino, Santa Barbara... My son remarked, "It's like a foreign country."

Makes me realize how wretchedly wasted most of this country is.