California, Utah, Real Estate, Tech Jobs, Bleh

My trip to Cali this last weekend was fantastic. I’m not sure just how I feel about my friend’s wedding, but I wish him the best of luck. The wedding itself was really nice. It all went down in the bay and fleet week was going on. I got to see the new stealth boat, an aircraft carrier with the sailors out on display, F-16’s blasting around in formation, Apaches, S.E.A.L.s (as well as real seals) a hovercraft, all kindsa stuff.

The ocean was incredibly fun, even though I didn’t do much on it. I had never understood previously how people thought swimming was strenuous, but now that I’ve fought the ocean tide a bit I understand.

I’d like to move to California but I don’t know how feasible that is. I’ve no idea what I could charge in Cali for my services, whether they would even be in demand, how long it’d take to become established, all that. Real Estate in California is also a lot more “volatile”, shall we say. You can spend tons of money for a little piece of shit house. When we were near the beach I saw BMW’s, Corvettes, Mercedes, Audis, etc all parked outside of crappy houses that I would be embarrassed to live in around here; and you know that that dilapidated home is $700,000 at least because it’s within walking distance of the coast.

Too bad California real estate isn’t as cheap as most Utah real estate. If it was, and I knew there was a market for me, I’d be gone in a heartbeat. St. George here isn’t that cheap, but that’s besides the point…