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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:06 PM
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Poll question: Fresno?
:shrug:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:08 PM
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1. Bakersfield.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:09 PM
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2. Stockton, Bakersfield, Fresno ... The Central Valley ain't exactly utopia, is it?
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:11 PM
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4. ever been through Boron?
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:14 PM
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6. No ... I've literally been "stuck in Lodi," though.
The car broke down. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA7iGxV6rt4
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:16 PM
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8. Lodi is right down the highway from me, that and Stockton. Stockton, the most
miserable city in the US, not the my city is much better but we ain't Stockton...yet!
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 09:49 PM
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21. There is a move afoot hereabouts to rebrand Stockton as a retirement destination
Seriesly!!111!!11!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5029761&mesg_id=5032493
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:53 PM
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24. I've slept in my car in Boron.
And run nearly naked down the streets of Fresno Anne Heche style.

Had my car break down in Mojave without money. And Los Banos. And...

Nearly got beat up by rednecks in Redding.

Woke up in San Diego after falling asleep in Tijuana.

Been searched at the border in San Ysidro.

Left blood on the streets of Berkeley.

Got my motel room broken into by cops with guns in Riverside.

etc. etc.

Damn I LOVE California, all of it!
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:09 PM
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3. Barstow
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:13 PM
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5. Visalia
Porterville.



Chowchilla.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:15 PM
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7. Madera
Hanford.



Mendota.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:16 PM
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9. Coalinga
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:18 PM
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11. Los Banos
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ReliantJ Donating Member (680 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:27 PM
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13. The bathrooms?
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 09:55 PM
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22. The baths
Natural hot springs.



Legend has it the Franciscans dipped in 'em.
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seaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 12:59 AM
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26. I did too!
It was a ton o' fun.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:17 PM
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10. Yuba City!
remember Johnny Carson used to make jokes about Yuba City and then i moved to California and actually drove through there and it all made sense.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:25 PM
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12. Hanford -- Gateway to Fresno
God's country, to be sure.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:31 PM
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14. But Fresno is only 2 hours from this:


and only 4 hours from this:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 09:00 PM
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19. And those are two reasons I enjoyed my years in Merced.
Yosemite and The Pacific Ocean.

:thumbsup:
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seaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 01:04 AM
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28. A couple of miles from where I used to live
Just moved to Merced...its an adjustment. Sigh
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 01:25 AM
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31. Unfortunately, Fresno's a lot closer to THIS.....
Edited on Fri Feb-13-09 01:26 AM by Sebastian Doyle

RimJob, Leader of the Freeper cult himself :scared:
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:37 PM
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15. Am I the only one who thinks the Central Valley has it's own unique charm?
I like the dry grassy hills and the black oaks, the madrone and bay. I even like the little towns, like something out of Steinbeck, I know it was Salinas, but the CV reminds me of that.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:52 PM
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16. Yes.
But I'm from here.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 09:57 PM
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23. Nope
I like driving 99 or the little highways, like 33 and 140, and looking at all the bucolia.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 01:05 AM
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29. I've met some really nice people in the central valley.
And the hills surrounding it are very nice too. I can think of much worse places in the world to live than the central valley.
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:55 PM
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17. Taft
Bakersfield's armpit.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:56 PM
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18. and here i thought Bakersfield was the armpit of California, the one they don't put in
the brochures. Boron for wins the worst, that place is desolate and tragic looking.
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 09:03 PM
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20. Yeah, it's pretty sad when you're the armpit's armpit.
I lived in Denair for a year. They had a sign entering town that said: Denair, The Oaisis Of The San Joaquin Valley. I always thought they had just mispelled armpit.:rofl:
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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 12:57 AM
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25. In comparison to San Bernardino, Highland, Fontucky, Devore or Victorville...
It can't be so bad.
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 01:00 AM
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27. Dixon.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 01:15 AM
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30. You, me and Fresno Bob.
You know what they did to Bob?
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