Is California Worth Living In?

Q: Is California worth living in when it experiences wildfires, earthquakes, heat waves, flash floods, snow blizzards, volcano eruptions, tornadoes, the Santa Ana winds, and big storms? What keeps people here? What do other places experience that we don't?

A: Here in California, depending on where you live, you have some sort of intense weather that jeopardizes your home, family, and friends who live there. In northern California we have the volcanoes on three sides of the valley that are potentially going to erupt some time in the sort future. In the San Francisco area they experience huge earthquakes while in the mountains they acquire large amounts of snow barricading them into their homes until it can be removed. In southern California they have the Santa Ana winds that pick up spreading wildfires all over the place destroying towns and homes suddenly. Small tornadoes are created, big storms come on the ocean sides, flash floods come washing away anything that comes in its path, and then the heat waves that hit as well.

What is it that really keeps the citizens of California here and encourages others to come and visit, keeping California the Golden State? We do have the beaches stretching up the coast, and much more to experience as well. It really depends on what a person can handle competing with in order to make their life enjoyable. Everywhere in the United States there is some sort of natural catastrophe that they have to endure. There's the Tornado Belt, the hurricanes in the south, huge droughts, and freezing weather on the east coast blanketing the various states with snow and ice. California has probably the most mix up of the various extremities that we can encounter, but not one is the most extreme, keeping them all even in intensity. People must find California as an adventure that keeps giving for all the catastrophes that we experience and the countless that we have coming. For those who do decide to stay, they get the benefit of in-state tuition to some of our great colleges and universities. There is so much to experience it is impossible to never have something to do. Wherever you are you can never run out of activities to experience keeping our happy state the Golden State.