BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III UNDERRATED PROFESSIONAL

What has happened to our once beatific state, our once paradisaic city? We are leaving, having bought a home that is twice the size of the one we have now for half the price and we will drive on roads that are clean and well cared for without thousands of homeless encampments and panhandlers on every street corner. Please include your name, community and a phone number we wonвЂ™t publish Please email your 500-word essay by Wednesday to and we may publish it in the newspaper and online. Tell us why you would or wouldnвЂ™t contemplate leaving California. We had so many responses for this topic, weвЂ™re going to continue it for one more week, so here is your chance to weigh in. After a certain age, say 65, we should exempt folks from having to pay property tax at the very least. California as a whole should have a more enlightened approach to its elderly population. As upcoming retirees, the cost of gasoline, property taxes, just to live make retiring here not an option. Do we not have pride in our state? Should we not? And letвЂ™s not forget the enormous cost to live here. The stench and uncleanliness of the bathrooms in our rest areas have left me with a sense of shame. No weeds and trash strewn about as is the case here. Moreover, when you leave the state by car and visit the rest areas in other states, the restrooms are clean and sweet-smelling, the roads are neat and well-manicured. Even in La Jolla, the jewel of this town, the roads are so bad we have damaged our vehiclesвЂ™ axles, tires and rims so many times our insurance will no longer cover these items so we avoid going where the roads are the worst. Our roads are atrocious - potholes everywhere that when eventually fixed are never completely fixed. Our list of why we would want to move grows by the day. I have so many great memories of this once idyllic town and state. Both of us have been here for more than 60 years so the decision was not an easy one. We were both born and raised here and the thought of moving to Arizona with all the heat has us a bit torn, sad and nostalgic. My wife and I are leaving San Diego, leaving California. Sandy Stevens, Vista Moving away became a much better option And, every time I am on Facebook with family and friends who have made their home elsewhere, I am proud of my decision that, at last, this state, this city is my home. It certainly isnвЂ™t perfect, but it is and has become home. I thought we should move to Oregon where my daughter lived so I wouldnвЂ™t have that agonizing feeling of leaving her and, by then, my two grandchildren, over and over.

IвЂ™m staying.Д«ut then, my daughter settled with my only grandchild in Oregon and my son was living in New Mexico. Then, a remarriage complete with stepchildren sealed the deal. Going through that time alone, without the comfort and warmth of loving parents and siblings close by was very hard, but I resisted going home one more time. Then came the divorce and, again, the question, are you moving home now? No, IвЂ™m too entrenched in my career, the kids are too entrenched, one in college, the other a senior in high school. We built a house with an ocean view and moved the family to North County. The Navy guy got his degree from San Diego State University. I began working at the San Diego County Office of Education, from which I retired 33 years later. How can staying here end the guilt of having the only two grandchildren, and not having any good answers to your mother and father that you are staying here because that is what your husband wants. I had staved off my homesickness because I thought we would be moving home.

BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III UNDERRATED PROFESSIONAL

At the end of that enlistment and with another child, I found out my husband had no intention of leaving this wonderful place with the ocean, professional sports and, oh my gosh, very little humidity. Loving my home state of Kentucky, I was always sure in my mind that it would be a short three years until I could go home again. Orders from the Navy sent my enlisted husband, myself and our 1-month-old daughter here in 1967. I have had some moments in my life when I thought about leaving San Diego, but fate intervened just in time.

Back to the future part iii underrated