Am I the only person that hates living on the West Coast?

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Where would you rather live?

I've been waiting for a thread like this for a long time. In my experience I find the Western US overall as bad as you describe it, DD (this being pretty much everything west of the Mississippi River). I don't find California to be a particularly tolerant place overall. If it's so tolerant, why are weird cults like Scientology (notorious for being hostile to LGBT people) and all of the wacko religions so strong out there? Don't even get me started on the other states out here. I can't see how an Aspie can live out there with all due respect to people here who are in California or the western USA. For years I thought I was the only one who thought this (liberal and tolerant my *#$) about the West; for the record, the 'libertarianism' that they talk about is all fake too.

I've lived in California for the last 4 years or so and am moving because of the cost of living. It's like $1,600 for a 1 bedroom here in Sonoma County. I mean yeah, the central valleys are cheap but it's god awful hot there and basically offers up no beauty. I dunno guess if I had money I'd like it here but other than that I'm moving back to Arizona this summer

It's a beautiful state, but time for me to go. I guess it all depends on how you define beauty. I'm sure lots of people think Oklahoma is pretty but frankly I could do without all the religious wack jobs and Republicans the south seems to be infested with

past experience is that if one can find many reasons to abhor where they are, moving to a new place will not serve lasting relief... as in a few weeks time upon moving into a new home, and settling down, about as many new reasons will surface to address the new location’s inadequacies.

other than high cost of living, it’s really not some nightmare down here. the diversity of its people is actually rather interesting, and as for perceiving silent treatment as rudeness, such is a blessing in disguise to a loner as it means for fewer exchanges with strangers.

I always thought that much of southern California was full of religious wack jobs and Republicans. $1,600 for a one bedroom in Sonoma County, that's just north of the Bay Area, right? That's a lot even for a relatively rural area.

I think I'd quite enjoy living in an area perpetually stuck in the 70s

But yeah. Hollywood is running out of ideas and the extremist left is gaining traction in mainstream leftist thought. And people wonder why Trump won?

I wanted to get back to this topic as I find it something that isn't talked about much online. I have found that to some extent, if someone finds or looks for reasons to not like a place then they won't be happy anywhere so we agree a bit. However, I have to say that from my experience that is usually not the case with most people most of the time. When someone doesn't like a place they usually have good reason not to like the place. Granted, it's all subjective so someone who loves the East Coast may not necessarily like the West Coast or vice versa, or they may love some other place in the Midwest or whatever. Anyways, I don't think people get a case of thinking 'the grass is greener on the other side' simply for not liking a place, and even liking a place can be relative. I know there are parts of the prairie states out here that are not ideal places for me to live but are relatively better vs. my current location, for example. It could be a case of simply getting out of a bad place into a more 'neutral' community which is relatively much better.

I had a previous post on this thread where I said some curt things about the Western US. I apologize for being curt (I was in a bad mood that day, sorry) but my belief on the western states stands. With all due respect to the people on WP that live in this part of the world (and I want to emphasize this as much as I can while being as blunt as I can), I don't think that the Western US is a good place for people to live overall. I think it's bad enough for NTs to live in; don't even get started on the problems I suspect Aspies go through out here. A lot of western states (both on the West Coast and the prairie/mountain states) don't treat their people very well overall. Also, I find a lot of rough people out here and they just don't seem to care how they treat another person overall as well. I think the complaints from other people here are fairly accurate. I know that the OP mentioned something about how only STEM careers are really profitable out West; I'd say that even with a STEM background it's a crapshoot out here. I have also found that the political beliefs and ideologies (you could say philosophies as well) of people out here are quite often the opposite of what they are depicted as in the media; the West Coast is depicted as being liberal and progressive when in my experience it was nowhere near that; there might be some parts of the old South that might beat the West Coast here in progressiveness to be honest. The mountain and prairie states are depicted as being libertarian and self sufficient when in reality they aren't very self sufficient at all (coming from personal experience) nor are they even close to being libertarian (you won't convince me that the West is libertarian at all given the nonsense laws they pass out here). I don't think it's unreasonable to hold some skepticism about the western USA given that it gets a lot more praise than I think it's worth.