Many California people I've met here are either really awesome nice or just total jerks. The area, at least where I am, is incredibly polished and clean. This place is a complete contrast in many ways to where I once was, which was ghetto city, NC.

Most people are well dressed and well groomed, which is kind of intimidating as I am normally not. I drive probably the worst car not only at work but one of the worst I've seen so far. Never seen so many Mercedes!

After moving from a city where most of the populace is below the poverty line to OC, California I feel like I am in an entirely different country. It is astounding the difference in quality of life there is between both towns, with relatively the same latitude, population, and distance from ocean. It's like bizarro world.

 

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Welcome to Cali!


IMO NorCal is a little less pretentious in the looks/fashion. The whole LA area seems to be caught up in the presentation and kinda Jersey Shore-ish to me. But it's still Cali and still awesome!

 

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Interesting. I just moved to your town's main competition on the opposite coast.


Here, the car competition does not even exist. That is because most people do not even own cars, let alone require them to get around daily. The proles and the patricians live far closer to each other than LA or any other city I've lived in. It's not that the differences don't exist - you will get a different ratio of rich-to-poor in the Bronx as opposed to, say. Tribeca. But you still get lowly street vendors and laundromats in Tribeca.


Anyway, good luck in your strange land. Also, be sure and put the word "the" before the number of any highway.

 

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It's called economic inequality a country does not benefit from having extremes, extreme wealth or extreme poverty.. the less of a income gap there is the better, a country should have a huge middle class, little or no poverty and few really rich people.

What the us is doing is basically enriching it's wealthiest at the expense of the middle class.

 

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It's all sunshine and gay laughter until you are violently thrown to the ground by the quaking earth covering you under slabs of rubble gasping for breath as you lie there waiting for death in the darkness buried alive.


I hear the weather is great though.

 

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All countries are doing that. We're just more honest about it than the EU.

 

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lol. that doesn't even happen once a decade, compared to tornado alley getting rofflestomped every year and hurricanes on the gulf and east coast. i'll take the infrequent quakes that do nothing and the every century disaster over the yearly disasters other areas get to contend with. besides now that he's out here, he gets to spend xmas with me.

 

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Depends on where you are in california. Lived here my whole life and trust me, every city has a little ghetto. Down south again depends on where you are. I lived in the fremont, hayward, lathrop, manteca, lodi, sacramento, san diego and many family members in LA, Newark, San Francisco, Livermore, Daly City, Vacaville and other cities and every single one of those have nice areas and ghettos. It is what it is. Some of the people are nice, some are weirdos, some quiet, some rich and some poor. I'd say each city has a little of everything. Dont let the good side of town fool you, there is a bad side not too far away. Thats california and thats the way it is.

 

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Orange county is a suburban paradise -think Agrestic in Weeds. Dont let the hoity-toity people (Pretentiously self-important, haughty or pompous) get you down. There is Orange county and then there is Los Angeles, a study in contrasts. Orange county has great beaches and uniform communities. You are not what you drive, fuggidabout it. You are as good as anyone else. Learn the local subculture and enjoy your life. You get to decide whether it is right for you or not.

 

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Now that you've tried a straight week I hope you can be yourself again.

 

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