Fresno?

[XemaSab]

Poll question: Fresno?

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

1. Bakersfield.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Stockton, Bakersfield, Fresno ... The Central Valley ain't exactly utopia, is it?

[AlCzervik]

4. ever been through Boron?

[Arugula Latte]

6. No ... I've literally been "stuck in Lodi," though.

The car broke down. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA7iGxV6rt4

[AlCzervik]

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!

[KamaAina]

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

[hunter]

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!

[KitchenWitch]

3. Barstow

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Visalia

Porterville.



Chowchilla.

[XemaSab]

7. Madera

Hanford.



Mendota.

[Arugula Latte]

9. Coalinga

[XemaSab]

11. Los Banos

[ReliantJ]

13. The bathrooms?

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. The baths

Natural hot springs.



Legend has it the Franciscans dipped in 'em.

[seaker]

26. I did too!

It was a ton o' fun.

[AlCzervik]

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.

[MineralMan]

12. Hanford -- Gateway to Fresno

God's country, to be sure.

[begin_within]

14. But Fresno is only 2 hours from this:

and only 4 hours from this:

[Ptah]

19. And those are two reasons I enjoyed my years in Merced.

Yosemite and The Pacific Ocean.

:thumbsup:

[seaker]

28. A couple of miles from where I used to live

Just moved to Merced...its an adjustment. Sigh

[Sebastian Doyle]

31. Unfortunately, Fresno's a lot closer to THIS.....

RimJob, Leader of the Freeper cult himself :scared:

[arcadian]

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.

[LeftyMom]

16. Yes.

But I'm from here.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Nope

I like driving 99 or the little highways, like 33 and 140, and looking at all the bucolia.

[begin_within]

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.

[bluesbassman]

17. Taft

Bakersfield's armpit.

[AlCzervik]

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.

[bluesbassman]

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:

[SidneyCarton]

25. In comparison to San Bernardino, Highland, Fontucky, Devore or Victorville...

It can't be so bad.

[Starry Messenger]

27. Dixon.

[MrSlayer]

30. You, me and Fresno Bob.

You know what they did to Bob?