Don't ever move to Lodi!
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7/26/2019
Born at a hospital in Stockton, raised in Lodi for all 18 years of my life. I'm moving to Sacramento in a couple months, because I need to move on and change. Now, when I get asked what city I'm from when I'm traveling, or if I chat online with other people, I just normally say I'm from Stockton because Lodi is so small that most people in SoCal as well as some in Sacramento and definitely from out of state wouldn't know wtf I'm talking about! If people still don't know what I'm talking about when I say Stockton, I give up, because nowhere people almost universally know is anywhere near Lodi. I hate it here, because for one thing, there's pretty much nothing fun to do here, and two, almost everybody's a christian with right wing views (eg. Young earth creationists, republicans, conservative democrats...) I don't have a problem with that). But my problem is that many of them, especially old guys are sort of like on a mission to get everybody to believe in the word of god, and if you say you disagree, they'll still keep pestering you until you finally get your @$$ to church! And if you're an atheist, or a liberal, you're "persecuting" them because you disagree, and it hurts their feelings! Kind of like the south, but without Confederate flags. They're rude and cliquish, and since there's nothing to do, how bout go get a water at Starbucks and sit down and write a rap complaining about Lodi, or the whole 209/Stockton region! People have gotten upset with me when I told them I'm moving out of Lodi this year, probably because most people who grow up here move to Sacramento, San Francisco, LA, Tucson, you name it, and then 2 years later move back to Lodi and grow old here because they feel like their parents and old high school friends will be happy! Because they think growing up in Lodi means you belong there, when in reality, your hometown is often not the place that that you should live in, even if, and especially if it's a comfortable town with under 100k people and nothing fun. Lodi's one and only "mall" is just a tiny shopping center with a dollar tree and a pizza place and an ace hardware store. Sacramento has awesome restaurants and bars and malls and the people are cool and the women are hot! You won't find much $#it like that in Lodi!
Zach | Lodi, CA