I'm fine with that with one exception...we're not calling our new country New California...fuck that...while I lived in California for a period in my life, I still have friends there, and some fond memories...that state has nothing on the East Coast...it's a pain in the ass to get around, the freeways are a disaster, the cost of living is insane (of course it's not much better here but I guess that's the price you pay for living in the better parts of the country), LA does not even compare to New York or Boston, or even Portland, Maine, hell even Providence, RI may have more going for it than LA (San Francisco is nice)...in my short time there I witnessed wildfires, earthquakes, floods, and horrific gang violence...not to mention dealing with people who practically declare a national disaster and start crashing their cars into whatever is available if a few snowflakes fall...they have some palm trees (and they don't even treat them well) and that's about all they can say they have over us...so if we are gonna name our new country something it's not gonna be New California...we could join up with Canada or Australia maybe...become New Canada or New Australia and we wouldn't need a passport to go back and forth and we could lower the air fare and we'd get sane and sensible people like Kath, Alan, Kyle or DavidM as our fellow New Whatevers...but New California?

That sounds like Brad's idea and we know to take that with a grain of salt knowing what he will wear for a haircut...

I wonder if Alan and Kath would let Mick into our country if we joined up with them? I'm sure they would but there would probably be some sort of heavy tax or duty and a pile of forms and advance applications to fill out and maybe a period of quarantine before he was allowed to move about freely.