>>>Nope, I'm definitely a crazy Californian. I spent 10 years in Massachusetts and they NEVER understood. :-))
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>>I was the opposite - born and raised in California, but never crazy enough, or maybe the wrong kind of crazy, I don't know :) I moved to Massachusetts in 80s, and quickly it felt like I was in my natural homeland...
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>Looks the airlines are getting rich. Where in California?

Grew up in Berkeley, Orinda, Mill Valley area, lived in Oakland, too...where are you from?