California view of the U.S.

[yesthattom]

Funny explanation of how Californians describe the rest of the U.S.
This is dead-on funny (and something I cite as a reason I get turned off when I visit California for too long)

Comments

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

Hah.

That's not really very funny, nor is the usual hatred of Californians that one encounters travelling around the states. Sorry to break it to you, but everyone has their own perceptions of the world and the US, varying by upbringing. Singling out the case of the California one just makes this guy annoying.

[kimuchi.livejournal.com]

The original entry is funny, but the comments degenerate into mean-spirited. 'Cause y'know, moving here _immediately_ knocks 50+ points from the IQ score.

Before I moved here, I knew zip about California, aside from dutifully memorizing the state capital in 5th grade. I'd been to San Francisco once and LA/Anaheim once, both before age 15, and that was it. I didn't know which airport to fly into to get to Palo Alto, and in fact suspected it was in southern California (this is more puzzling when you realize I actually _stayed_ in Palo Alto for part of the SF trip as a kid...but I was only 9 or 10 then, and I think I was more impressed by the change in climate between there and the city than by how long it took to travel in between). I did know a lot about Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and nearby bits of Canada, because that was actually relevant to me. So it's not too surprising to me when people who grew up here -- or for that matter people who grew up somewhere else and settled here -- don't know much about other people's home states. The country is just too large to treat the other side of it like a neighbor. We don't generally expect a Swede to be fully informed on topics pertaining to Turkey, yet they're closer together than you and I are right now.

I just wish I could afford to buy a condo, or move somewhere else without taking a pay cut, being forced to dress decently for work and maybe come in before 10am, and losing basically everything I ever do for fun.

[lovefox1.livejournal.com]

I thought it was pretty damn funny. And most of the comments were pretty funny too. I adore sarcasm.

[kimuchi.livejournal.com]

There's a difference between mean and sarcastic. Suggesting experiments to run on Calfornians because they're all just _so_dumb_ that they can't figure out that Hawaii is made up of islands is not sarcastic.

In fairness, though, it was UCLA that told me I'd have to take TOEFL if I wanted to come to their school from Wisconsin.

[lovefox1.livejournal.com]

See, maybe NJ people are the DUMB ones because I don't even know what TOFEL is.

NJ gets it's fair share of insults, and I am sure it happens about every state, so I just took is as humor and not mean sprited.

[airshipjones.livejournal.com]

I found it to be very funny, and I am a native Californian. I even used to own a bumper sticker that read "Welcome to California, Now Go Home!" because I was so CA-centric. And having lived in the Midwest for 4 years, I am glad to be back in CA, and have no intention of moving again. Not that I wouldn't mind visting other places in the US, as long as I had a trusty native guide and an interpreter. :-)

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

I thought it was funny, despite being Australian.