Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> California would be an ideal place to go though. ;-) I stayed
> in Southern California for a year and it is a nice place.
> But it is in USA and not in either Canada or Australia.

You've hit one of my pet peeves.  California is a large and varied land.
You can live in a coastal desert, wet (just short of qualifying for
rainforest) temperate forest, over a mile high with climate matching much of
southern Ontrario, drier alpine, high altitude desert, on some of the most
ideal farm land on the planet, in a dense city, in a wild rural region, in a
coastal fog zone, straddeling a fault line, or even downslope of a
supervolcano that's about due.

California probably has more varied climates and geographies you can
actually live in than any other US state, and most countries.  While the
statement "I like the climate in Singapore" has meaning, it makes no sense
at all to say "I like the climate in California".  There is no "California"
climate despite the fact that most of the geographically-ignorant (which
seems to include far too many world wide and a disproportionately large
fraction of Americans) seem to equate that with the climate in the Los
Angeles basin.  Even a quick look at a map should immediately reveal how
silly that is.


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