I miss California

I'm sitting here listening to 80's music that I grew up with and it's really making me miss my home - California. I can't wait to graduate and get the hell out of North Dakota! :) I hope to move back to either San Diego or Sacramento, depending on where I get a job as a flight instructor.

Prior to moving to North Dakota, I took many things for granted that I had in California. I think the things I miss the most are good restaurants, fresh produce, good weather, swimming in the ocean, spirited driving on windy twisty roads, and my friends and family. North Dakota is completely absent of the above mentioned. Living here is a great sacrifice that I've made in my life. Dealing with snow, ice, -40 degree weather (that's a negative temp folks), dark, cold, and depressing winters, mosquito epedemic in the summer, 3 month long summers, 9 month long winters, horrible restaurants, absence of cultural activities and food, annoying accents that sound worse than the movie Fargo, roads with potholes and concrete settling that shaves off 1 month of your suspension life with each bump, $5.50 an hour minimum wage with only blue-collar jobs available (minimal professional jobs, which don't even pay well), and people who don't know how to open their car doors without letting the 30MPH-gusting-to-50-MPH-winds slam into my emmaculate Honda Civic.

And North Dakota wonders why they have an out-migration crisis!