We have a full-spectrum population here in San Diego, Michael--street people all the way up to the Rancho Santa Fe mansions.

One of the things that differentiates mentally sound people from the less-so is the ability to differentiate between scary pictures and actual probabilities relating to real-world future events.

I have carefully listened to people insisting California was about to fall into the ocean and only a nutcase would live there for, oh, twent plus years.

So far we have lost a couple of people to collapsing sandstone cliffs which anyone with their eyes open can see are "iffy". We've had some hooracious fires that lost us a lot of homes, but certainly no more than the Missouri floods or the New Orleans hurricanes, which we don't get. One guy bitten by a great White. Meanwhile the rest of the nation had its guts ripped out by a school of Olde Whytes. By and large, the evidence seems to support the idea that living in Califiornia is quite as safe--and in many ways more pleasant--than living in many other places.

I am always open to invitations, however!


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