Following is a heat-induced rant, please take with chunks of salt:

Too hot today.

Too hot to play tennis.

Too hot to cook.

Too hot to write fic. Too hot to even nap without waking up groggy.

I know, in Northern California, I complain when the temperature is 100 and 50. I know we Nor Cal dwellers are softies, and how people from Ohio or Arizona or Minnesota have it so much tougher in Summers and Winters. How there the temperature is like Mars on a cool day and winter means applying steel tank treads to your cars' wheels, with your bare hands. But dammit, I'm PAYING OUT THE ASS for this supposedly awesome mild climate! Aside from a bleeping high sales tax that's on the cusp of 10%, I got a 10% State income tax! What, the, hell. I sure as hell ain't submitting myself to the draconian tax environment for its awesome social services (don't qualify to take advantage) or progressive politics (never helped or inspired me) or awesome roads (the roads are bad/average).

Sure I'm being cynical. Sure you can easily say, "Well if you don't like it move out! Move to the deep South or something! Enjoy your bigotry and lynch mobs!" And that would be a point, of course. But I'm just saying, without its weather, NorCal has far less to justify the high premium it charges (compared to other States/regions) its inhabits for living here, aside from availability of good international food.

And of course, in the South I would be permitted to buy a gun, or a gunship, or all manners of lethal-force home defense systems to defend myself from the lynch mobs. Whereas carrying a spork in California on BART is a criminal offense with a 5 year minimum sentence... maybe not now though, since the State is broke and we released prisoners we can't afford to jail. Yet another disincentive to stay.

So the short of it is; Nor Cal, unless you promptly return to the sweet 60-75 degree year round temperature you promised me on the brochure, I'm taking my business and taxes elsewhere. Jeez, this was why my parents came here in the first place, instead of settling in... Ohio, or something.