@hybotics :-)
@thrrgilag I'm sure there are good things about Bakersfield, but I've never spent enough time there to find them. @doctorlinguist knows a French restaurant there of which he is fond, I believe.
// @skematica @literary
@skematica Or Bakersfield. Or Stockton. Take your pick.1
// @literary
Yes, I am a typical coastal Californian who isn't fond of the Central Valley.
@gtwilson As a Californian, I think of Sacramento as the place that's hot in the summer where we put our politicians to keep them out of the way. When you think that the original capital of California under the Spanish and Mexicans was Monterey, which is surpassingly awesome, it makes you wonder why the hell we ever moved it.1
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Answer: It was close to the gold fields.
@gtwilson Agreed. Living in California, anyplace west of the Mississippi is someplace I'd rather drive than fly.
// @konrad