wow, i lived an hour up the road in Merced, CA and there is no way you can say that valley is livable. It's nasty, hot, dusty, the people are dumber then bricks, the women are all either ugly, dumb, or pregant, or a nice combo of the 3. you can have fresno, with it's wonderful air quality (2nd worst behind bakersfield, which is 2 hours down the road, great place) stay far, far away from santan's butthole called the central valley of california. (if you can't get it from my avatar, I'm a Boston Red Soxs fan, who grew up in Boston, or shall I say paradise compared to fresNOfreakinway)