What is the most rubbish California county?

got to be sacramento

As I am here, it is automatically hallowed ground (yet polluted, in the same way that the moneylenders corrupted the Temple, provoking Jesus's indignation).

Well, OC actually has things, buildings, PEOPLE, LIFE in it , so it wins by default.

Imperial is the poorest, apparently, and also the newest.

The valley was named for the Imperial Land Company, a subsidiary of the California Development Company, which at the turn of the 20th century had reclaimed the southern portion of the Colorado desert for agriculture.

and I didn't nominate Imperial just because it's the poorest.. it was mainly because of the Salton Sea... probably because it just symbolically and physically is just depressing (and stinky) as hell, for reasons I won't go into. That said, I was unaware of some of the other recreational areas in the County.

At least Kern county (where Bakersfield is) has Buck Owens.. and the northern edge of the Tejon pass... Frazier Park, etc.

That said, I say Fresno County. It's got Coalinga -- 'nuff said.. and Fresno... and some other smaller sub-Fresno cities around it. And lots of manure, dirt, and haze. 'Nuff said.

Wait.. in WHICH county is the central valley I-5 In-N-Out Burger located? Kings or Fresno? Whichever one DOESN'T have it wins for worst county. (I may be a vegetarian, but In-N-Out can still make great animal style "grilled-cheese" "sandwiches")

I might have, if the Bluths did not live there.

donut, 395 goes through part of Alpine but the drive from 50 through Alpine on 89 to395 is awesome.

I wasn't picking on Imperial for being poor. It's poor 'cause it's recently developed agricultural land dominated by agribusiness - that's why I was picking on it.

SOCAL vs NOCAL FITE!!

Way too much beauty in the coastal west, the mountainous eastern parts, the desert-y south, and the mountainous/foresty north parts of the state (for totally different reasons)

San Bernadino and Riverside would be good choices if they didn't happen to extend toward the desert. Kern would be great except for the mountains and the Kern natural reserve.

But Kings county is just 100% pure awfulness.

My girlfriend and I were having dinner in Mexico and they had Harris Ranch wine which just made me think of that horrible smell on the 5. I think the waiter was kind of confused and offended that we giggled at his wine.

Which part of the 99 have you driven on? There are stretches of that road that are some of the most depressing places I've seen in CA. I think it's a far uglier drive than the 5.

I drive it from San Francisco to Los Angeles when I don't have the patience for the I-5. I don't know, I've always liked it better. Granted, we're comparing two terrible drives.

Don't forget to stop at the Parkfield Cafe for an Earthquake Burger.

DOWN WITH WEATHER!

I've yet to hear anyone say anything good about Yuba City... maybe the county's overlap with some national forest ground is its saving grace, and the main city itself is just bleeaah?

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She turned into a pillar of broken image file.

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In all honesty, my knowledge of most of the unpopulated parts of California is limited to a discussion of how nice the drive is. King's seems to be located right in the middle of my least favorite drive in California, but it probably isn't particularly bad, just damned by the fact that I've had to drive it so many times.

King's is actually pretty fascinating (albeit in a rather depressing way - or if you are interested in agribusiness). Has anyone stopped anywhere in King's? (Kettleman City the most obvious I guess?)

Half of these counties I want to pretend don't exist.

Orange fucking County. That place can take its botox and raised pickups and go to hell.

For so many reasons, but mostly because of the stereotypes it creates that those of us that live in normal, workaday Los Angeles County have to live with.

SoCal!

It's gotta be
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ha! raised pickups!! i don't understand this at all. they do have streets in Socal. the need to drive around in freakin BigFoot is redic.

The raised pickup is totally an OC thing. Like, right across the Orange Curtain in Huntington Beach, you can start counting them. I once counted, no lie, 35 different ones b/t the 405 and the beach.

LA County is more about the beat up old Civics with kazoo-style exhaust pipes.

For King's County (and others in general), this looks possibly interesting

http://www.amazon.com/King-California-Boswell-Making-American/dp/1586482815

thing is, the raised pick up is a huntington beach thing. fuck that place. the rest of orange county isn't *that* bad. i mean it sucks--i lived in irvine for 3 years!--but the huntington beach culture is really inexcusable.

i had to read this thread twice to realize that 'raised pickup' referred to something other than a guitar

i lived in irvine for 3 years!

Where DID you finally escape to?

my grandma lives in Orange right by the circle. that's a cool little neighborhood. i would live there

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1717134975&size=o

my grandma lives in Orange right by the circle. that's a cool little neighborhood. i would live there

Yeah, that is a good spot. Great Cuban place right there, Felix I'm pretty sure the name is.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=560270342&context=set-72157594512545183&size=l

it's Felix. definitely recommended.
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you also have Watson’s Drug Store and Soda fountain. nice little throwback spot for breakfast

ned, i'm in long beach now and really like it.

I guess I agree with that - HB is prolly the worst that the OC has to offer, but there are a lot of things wrong with that county.

Having never been to Kings County, however, I cannot speak to it one way or another.

you also have Watson’s Drug Store and Soda fountain. nice little throwback spot for breakfast

Watson's is nice, but I like The Filling Station just up Glassell. There's a Lebanese place a couple blocks up from there that's worth the stop too.

I'm revising my pick from Alpine to Lake County because of this Wikipedia sentence: "Lake County is colloquially referred to as "The LC" or "The County" by some local residents."

oh yeah,that Lebanese place is good too.
i have never been to Filling Station but it looks cool
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Come on, there's quite a bit of bleakness in the valley but it's a self-contained bleakness; Orange County is an active harm to the rest of the world. It's also so beautiful -- such a colossal waste. San Diego too.

what is with the British phrasing of this thread title?

Anyway while I can't think of anything particularly attractive about King County (Corcoran State Prison reprazent!) OC is hands down THE WORST, agreed about the "active harm" element.

Haven't been to, and don't know anything about Alpine County..what is prompting the negative votes for it?

I've been shooting a film project in Madera County recently. Anyone familiar with it? It's very weird.

I also spent a bit of time in some of the seedier parts of Fresno. Anybody else know that long strip of godforsaken highway cluttered with perfectly rundown retro motels? That part is crazy.

Haven't been to, and don't know anything about Alpine County..what is prompting the negative votes for it?

It's tiny (population of 1200 or so) and has the world's most boring biker bar. Other than the scenery, that's it.

what about that county that's shaped like a gun? Nevada county.

Alpine County got a little press in the late 60s when some gay organization tried to get gays and lesbians to move there so that it would become a gay-majority county with respect to voters, and so they could allow things that weren't allowed elsewhere. NBC's Laugh-In made a lame joke about this - a title card saying "Alpine County flies bi-planes" in their party sequence section.

did any gays and/or lesbians end up moving there?

lol @ "urban"

http://www.landwateruse.water.ca.gov/images/countymaps/01apmapv.jpg

every part of california is better than every part of the rest of the world

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hella sick

still, alpine is more populous than loving county, tx.

dear rest of california,

fuck you

signed,

the hardworking central valley

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i had to read this thread twice to realize that 'raised pickup' referred to something other than a guitar

-- gabbneb, Tuesday, November 6, 2007 4:38 PM

are you gonna brag next about shopping at whole foods or having a vagina

huntington beach hardcore froaders don't need you

It has to be Salton Sea.

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did any gays and/or lesbians end up moving there?

Not that I ever heard of. I suspect there were no jobs there.

I'm leaving tomorrow evening and will be driving/riding through all of California via I-5, plus a couple of detours. We'll be hitting, what, half the counties in California? Should be hard to judge...

Literally, a moonlit journey to baja, jaja.

My family has gone camping outside of Markleeville every summer since the Carter administration, and nothing about the town ever seemed to suggest a disproportionately high number of gays. Alpine county is gorgeous though, it's got to be Kings.

D.A.R.E. float in Hanford CA (in Kings County)

http://www.dare.com/IDAV/Hanford_copy.JPG

I'm still standing by Lake County as the most rubbish

Has anyone driven through the site of Tulare Lake?