So Cal support is here! (OC,LA,SD,IE)

[matt1000]

Together, let’s start a Quarter Life Crisis support group for Southern California (San Diego, OC, LA, Inland Empire).

I’ll be the coordinator, of sorts. We can start as a general SoCal group. Then, as people join, we’ll split into different regional or interest-based groups.

I know people are leery about giving out contact info. in public chatrooms. So let’s discuss this via e-mail. I created an e-mail address especially for the SoCal Support: socalsupport@aol.com. E-mail me your thoughts on this. And we’ll together come up with a fun yet helpful group for SoCal people.

And if anyone knows of any existing QLC groups in SoCal, let me know.


Matt1000

[SmilesSoSweet]

Hi matt1000,

Just wondering where in the OC you live. I tried to PM you but I guess you chose not to receive private messages and right now I can't email from my home account. Anyway, I'm up for a QLC Southern California group.

[Skyblade]

What about Santa Barbara, is that still considered SoCal?

[matt1000]

SmilesSoSweet,
I’m in the Westminster-Huntington Beach area.
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Skyblade,
You're absolutely right. Santa Barbara (and Ventura) is part of Southern California. And I should have included them. Anyone from Santa Barbara or Ventura counties is invited as well.

People in SoCal need to pull together. We face so many more pressures than a person from, say, Idaho. Upscale communities are abundant in SoCal, with the rich migrating here for their slice of paradise, and the poor and middle class moving to Arizona for cheaper rent. But the regular people still here, we struggle just to get by, even if paid well. And the Hollywood influence — to be someone important, to be beautiful — it infects every state, but in SoCal, it’s worse than a plague. You’ll see these wannabees showing off their flashy cars or fake body parts, whether in SD’s Gaslamp District, around OC’s Laguna Beach, along State Street in SB, or up at Hollywood and Highland. And all these pressures to be rich and famous aggravate and distract us from our quarter-life crisis.

So, we need to create a group that fits our needs. And even as our group membership grows, and we form separate meeting groups for each region, we’ll find a way to share our ideas and pull together. And that includes me helping form support groups in comparatively less populated areas of SoCal.

Matt1000

[Skyblade]

I'm up for it. I tried to start a group in Santa Barbara and I got about 5-6 people interested but they kind of flaked cuz they never really followed through after I e-mailed them and asked what times/days would work for them. *sigh* Its hard organizing groups.

[kitalyn414]

I tried to start a group in Santa Barbara and I got about 5-6 people interested but they kind of flaked cuz they never really followed through after I e-mailed them and asked what times/days would work for them. *sigh* Its hard organizing groups. LOL - that's the problem. we have all these "issues" and then we are total flakes as well. let's do lunch!

[and1grad]

I hear this never happened again. I was wondering if anybody was up for doin something on the 26th. Pretty sure my parents will have driven me crazy by then and I'll be itching to get outta the house and do SOMETHING. Anybody interested?