Christopher (and other disgruntled San Francisco Bay residents): How about moving down here and finding a job in Venice Beach or Santa Monica? The weather's better, you don't have to worry about power outages, housing is less expensive. You can live by the beach or in the mountains and still be in the city. Los Angeles has its own municipal utility with excess capacity. The city sells power to the grid at a profit. We Angelenos also don't tend to get as cold as you folks up north do if the heating should happen to be curtailed. (Obligatory disclosure: I have an interest in disgruntled bay area folks coming down south to live among the palm trees. I'm trying to recruit more staff.) --Steven Augart Chief Technology Officer, Sulcata, Inc. Venice Beach, California USA "Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:
You think that sucks, try living in California with this Capitalism-inspired deregulation process. The six-story building I worked in has to cut power by 10% during the power emergency to receive steep discounts from the power company. So they cut out the heating to the entire building, and it's freezing when there's a storm or cold wind outside. On top of that, my company cuts out the overhead lights to save money on their own energy bills. Now it's dark and freezing most of the time. I would not be surprised to find out if SuSE laid off people because it couldn't pay it's power bill.