Tuesday, 6 March 2007

immediate post california impressions

Home after a reasonable flight. My first post-trip impressions are - freeways, car dependency, unbelieveable bright light, blue skies and mountains, a land of extremes, superficial, home of advertising and marketing, very fat and slim people, quality in entertainment only comes in small nuggets, very cheap fattening food, quantity rather than quality.
It is easy to see that the UK is at an earlier stage of a similar line of development and i'm not sure that we are going to be able to divert from what appears to be an inevitable mimicing of the US in so many aspects of UK society.
I'm sure Sarah and Mike will enjoy their time in california but based on first impressions it wouldn't be a medium/long term home for me.
Work tomorrow - be interested to see what's been happening!

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