Special guest today! This post is by someone very close to me who generated this list while sharing libations with a fellow California transplant.

California women in Nashville want to know:

• Why cant I wear sundresses and rainbows flip-flops all year long? (Aka: What’s up with needing two closets for winter/summer?)
• How come all the restaurants are bbqs?
• What is a “meat and three”?
• How come there are no sidewalks?
• How much do I hate the humidity?
• How come everybody is so nice, but they never call you back?
• How do I scrape ice off my car windows?
• How come all the grass turns brown in the winter? Don’t they water it?
• What’s up with the chiggers and mosquitoes? I feel like I’m being hunted for meat.
• Why are all the women mowing their own lawns with push mowers?
• Why don’t they sell wine at Trader Joes?
• Why does Trader Joes “run out” of food when the weather gets cold and it snows?
• Why are lemons and avocados $2 each, when I had a tree in my backyard?
• What the heck is chess pie, really?
• Why do people throw piles of yard waste in their front yards by the curb? It looks like crap.
• Did I mention how much I hate the humidity?
• Where is the beach?
• Why do we have to belong to pools, and why aren’t they open during the winter? Can’t they just heat it?
• Why can’t they sell fresh berries and fruit at the farmers market? Why are there only squash and tomatoes?

And many more…