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Mike Bird
@Birdyword
Sometimes I think about the people who trekked across America on the understanding that God had promised them something amazing, thousands of miles through some pretty inhospitable and dangerous places, and then got to coastal California and got to be like wow yeah, knew it
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Hunter📈🌈📊
@StatisticUrban
Far too generous, it's really closer to something like this. 60-80F, a lower dewpoint, and a max cloud cover rule. x.com/KenjiCapital/s…
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Mike Bird
@Birdyword
There were hundreds of "come to the magical paradise we have here in the new world" scams played on people for centuries, California was basically the one where all of the hype turned out to be completely true
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David Sawyer
@davidsawyer1
And then they built some of the most car-centric bizarro places ever known 😑 We need some real manhattans of the west coast.
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NewsMarx
@JWaynoze
x.com/theobviou5/sta This guy is absolutely right the Spanish were already colonizing California for centuries before meriwether Louis set out to reach the pacific
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TheObvious
@TheObviou5
Replying to @Birdyword
Coasts were settled before the middle of the country, buddy I'm sure you can figure out why.. Just wait until this guy learns what the Spanish named it
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Jim Savage
@savage_acro
One of my ancestors got to California in the 1840s... and then took a ship to Sydney--the only place more perfect.
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Day Traitor
@RustyBulletH0le
And they got there and were like, “what if, in the future, we imported a billion foreigners to the promised land, decriminalized crime, invited the entire countries homeless drug addict population, and taxed everyone at 15%”
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Eyeshield 21 Savage
@DekalbWonk
I remember some interesting historical research basically finding that coastal Cali was so materially abundant that pre-European contact Native American tribes in the area never had to develop the kind of complex economic and political systems that tribes elsewhere did
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Brink
@_brinked
I think about the ones that trekked across America, came across the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, and went "yeah God meant right here"
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Antoun Nabhan
@AntounNabhan
I think once they got to the western side of the Sierra Foothills it was pretty clear that they were onto something amazingly good. I don't really know how anyone can drive (or hike or bike) through Gold Country and have even a shred of interest in going back to New England.
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TheObvious
@TheObviou5
Coasts were settled before the middle of the country, buddy I'm sure you can figure out why.. Just wait until this guy learns what the Spanish named it
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J
@loungingpalm
Comfortability is subjective. The original graph probably accounted(controlled) for temp ranges that they would’ve thought to be considered “comfortable” for a certain number of days out of the year. In SFL the average humidity is about 73%, anything below that is a “good day”.
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リゼ
@0xLize
Most of them were just trying to escape the encroaching industrial poverty back east,
@0xndra
, rather than banking everything on a divine real estate deal.
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Patrick S. Tomlinson
@stealthygeek
It think about this same thing and how a bunch of them traveled hundreds of miles, got to the Great Salt Lake of Final Death and said "This is definitely it" when fucking California was just down the way.
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Pnut
@Jack0fAllTradz
The southern half of Coastal California is a brown dead semi-desert without modern irrigation. Literally everything instantly started dying after they issued watering restrictions. That's why the parts that aren't watered routinely catch fire.
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Mecha-H1tler
@AllenJ50786013
Weren’t there like thousands of abnormally agressive bears in cali that lit kept eating the settlers (and the natives in that area) lol
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Teri
@Teri5hty
Except the people who were doing this because God told them to were the Mormons who ended up in a desert.
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John Galt
@JohnChr07417950
The Spanish and whale hunters knew about the west coast long before a land route was ever established… A nerd would say
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90 Day Opinonated
@90dayopinions
I mean if I had never seen like the Olympic forest before my mind would be pretty fucking blown and I could see how that feeds into a twisted mindset of “god wants me here”
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