A True "Shaky" Californian

After living in the Bay Area for the past 7 months, I can finally say that I'm a true California girl. At 8:40pm PST tonight, I felt my first earthquake. The news reported that it was a 4.3 on the Richter scale, but as this Midwestern girl will tell you, it felt a lot stronger than that. I saw my entire apartment sway from side to side for about 15 seconds, and some of my belongings even shifted. Now I know why there are no skyscrapers out here.

So after living through this "light" earthquake, I think that I'm ready to move back to Chicago. Even though there's snow there and it's cold for about 9 months out of the year, the ground is flat and it never moves. Not even a slight tremor of any kind. I might need to analyze the tradeoffs between sunshine and snow, but Chicago has the edge at the moment.