<p>Coldstone Creamery - Oreo Overload, anyone?</p>
<p>Dunkin’ Donuts - awesome bagels AND cheap iced coffee. Starbucks is very overpriced. </p>
<p>Orange Julius</p>
<p>Burger King > McDonald’s</p>
<p>Popeyes. </p>
<p>Five Guys - good ONCE IN A WHILE. If I ate it every week I’d get so sick of it.</p>
<p>Just to clarify something. Atlanta would be the second most crowded/busy/dirty city in California. LA is definitely overcrowded and a trash city to live in IMO. That said the Bay area is actually very nice and the rest of California is at best sprawling suburbs. San Diego isn’t your typical city. The East Coast in general is more overcrowded/dirty/busy than California. If you like peace and serenity California is probably a great place for you. Just saying.</p>
<p>Starbucks is tuuuuurible. I never eat there. It is overpriced and then there is the whole ordering issue. I can’t figure out what everything is and I’m not gonna say ghey stuff when ordering. I just say large or something like that and then they look at me weird which peeves me off. I never go there.</p>
<p>^^I agree, and I live in the Bay Area:) You don’t like Starbucks? I love Starbucks:) Haha, well once you get familiar with their menu it’s good:></p>
<p>I have a hard time believing that hatersunite has traveled all over California and has formed an accurate opinion of every city. </p>
<p>I detest Starbucks. It’s corporate America at its worst.</p>
<p>Wow really? What don’t you like about? Do you think their coffee is bad? Haha, everyone loves it where I live:) ^You’re probably right, I haven’t even been to all of the cities here lol</p>
<p>^^ I second… or third the Starbucks thing.</p>
<p>I don’t like coffee. Plus I’m not really a snack person. I normally eat two meals a day. And that’s it. Starbucks isn’t a meal. It’s just jamming sugar and calories down your throat which I find extremely unhealthy and somewhat disgusting. I don’t care call me a health freak but IMO eating snacks and digesting sugar when you aren’t really hungry is the recipe for obesity.</p>
<p>What? Starbucks doesn’t have a lot of sugar in their drinks(at least what I order) That’s odd that you guys don’t like it. O well:)</p>
<p>"I have a hard time believing that hatersunite has traveled all over California and has formed an accurate opinion of every city.</p>
<p>I detest Starbucks. It’s corporate America at its worst."</p>
<p>I’ve only been to San Francisco, down the coast to L.A., and San Diego. Obviously I don’t know what it’s like to live there but I certainly thought it was a lot more peaceful and slow paced than life at home. Natural beauty and a relatively low population density outside of the cities. And I only spent 2 days in L.A. but I thought it was trashy. You can see the smog bubble on the horizon when driving into L.A. And traffic doesn’t move. Plus, the vast ghettos are sort of disgusting. That’s just me. And I thought San Francisco was awesome. San Diego is sort of like the mainland’s version of Hawaii.</p>
<p>^I have to agree with the traffic in LA. It’s pretty bad there:/ I’m sure there are some nice parts though:) After all, they do have Hollywood and Disneyland:)</p>
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<p>There’s trashy neighborhoods in every city.</p>
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<p>I don’t think their coffee is bad, so much as so strong that it’s supposed to help you develop some sort of weird immunity to every other coffee out there. I just think that for their service, it’s overpriced. I’m more of a person who looks for the atmosphere, and there are some amazing local shops that may not have the same snappy behavior as Starbucks, but they’re losing so much business because there are Starbucks every two blocks; which accounts for most of the hatred I’ve developed for Starbucks.</p>
<p>I don’t want to make definitive statements but in my experience everyone who loves and is obsessed with Starbucks is either a girly girl or a girly guy.</p>
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<p>You were on vacation. Of course everything was more peaceful, haha.
LA can be trashy, but there are nice stretches of it. Same goes for most all other places.</p>
<p>^That’s true:) O ok, that makes sense:) Where I live, we just have a small Starbucks shop and that’s it. It’s a pretty small town, and the workers there do a sufficient job. It must be different in other places. ^^I’ve never heard that before. I have several girl and guy friends who like it:) It’s pretty popular; like I said, I live in a small town with one coffee shop. Just about every one of my teachers goes there before school. (Men and Women) I’ll let you know that I’m not a girly girl or girly guy haha</p>
<p>“^I have to agree with the traffic in LA. It’s pretty bad there:/ I’m sure there are some nice parts though After all, they do have Hollywood and Disneyland”</p>
<p>Let’s not get into an East Coast v West Coast thing but Disney World is 10x better than Disneyland. The craziest thing about Disneyland to me was the fact that it’s such a tight bubble. We drove maybe 2 miles away from Disneyland from our hotel to find something to eat and we were in the ghetto. Crazy.</p>
<p>^There’s like 3 starbucks in my city.haha. Around 75,000 people.</p>
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<p>=/ I disagree with this statement on so many levels. </p>
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<p>I envy you. I think you can literally see one Starbucks shop from another Starbucks shop in my city. That’s how close they are.</p>
<p>^^^Maybe only the nice resort areas on the beach. I find it’s close proximity to the border kind of sketchy.</p>
<p>Ok, well I bow down to the California expert. Whatever. California is overcrowded everywhere except L.A. Which is heaven. Happy?</p>
<p>FWIW I just checked and I have 5 Starbucks within 5 miles of my house.</p>
<p>People who live on Manhattan have about 30 Starbucks within a mile of their house.</p>