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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you lived outside of San Diego/Southern California before? It is culture and weather shock if you haven’t. I’ve been here 20 years and still hibernate in the winter/don’t go outside in July/August if I can help it. The first few years I had to go on SSRIs to help with the seasonal depression I didn’t know I had until I moved somewhere with dreary winters. I’m sure to people who grew up with seasons that sounds pathetic, but it was my reality!

My experience is public schools, so maybe not apples to apples. It is definitely striver culture compared to SoCal. If you aren’t playing travel sports by age 9 or 10, you aren’t making the high school team. If you aren’t accelerated multiple years in math, you’re behind. The high schools stopped doing valedictorians because suicide rates were too high.

But it’s cheap comparatively. We can afford a house here more easily than in California. I am encouraging our kids to go to college back on the west coast though, so we may eat any savings.
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+1. Everything you said. I have lived in SoCal And I have lived on the East Coast.  Despite everything wrong with California, [b]the sunshine brings abundant happiness[/b]. [/quote]

May gloom and June doom are real.[/quote]

It's still 60+ degrees even in the most overcast or dreariest of June weeks, and it nearly always burns off mid day. No comparison to months on end of cold, rainy weather.[/quote]

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