<p>lol chicago is midwest…NYC or LA for me</p>
<p>My BF is from the Bay Area and will admit to these things:</p>
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<li>We have a lot of food trucks (Kogi etc) and a lot of legit cultural restaurants and restaurants that push the boundaries with their menus (Beer Float? Whale meat? JKJKJK that’s horrible and that restaurant was like 5 minutes away from my school) </li>
<li>He said he likes the outdoor malls too since the weather wouldn’t permit it up there.<br></li>
<li>And he was surprised the drive to Big Bear/Mt. High was a little more than an hour as opposed to the 4 hours or something to Tahoe. </li>
<li>He also likes how you can hang outside during warm nights. </li>
<li>Oh and we ran into Bobby Hundreds at this burger joint and he meets a bunch of other B-list celebrities at his job which he thinks is kind of cool.</li>
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<p>@Other Evan (:D) </p>
<p>I know, I was stating Chicago as the only thing that matters in the Mid-west. ha ha.</p>
<p>What’s the tally?</p>
<p>I’ve lived in SF and as much as I wanted to like NorCal more than SoCal, I could never bring myself to do it! They both have their positives, but I’m still stuck on SoCal<3 </p>
<p>I’ve also tried searching everywhere up North for a good/decent Mexican food place but to no avail. 
I rather make the stuff myself!</p>
<p>Hey, I grew up in Pittsburgh people-one of THE most boring places on the planet-
But there are places around the LA area that are mmore boring than places I’ve seen in PA so don’t think that the entire state is amazing lol</p>
<p>Oh yea, I forgot, there are butt loads of celebrities out here. I run into them all the time. However, I don’t worship them unless they are like legendary like Paul Mccartney. Oscar De La Hoya was at Chuck E Cheese yesterday. Hung out with him, but again, celebrity worship is lame out here because it makes the celebrities resent going out in public. These are regular people who want you to leave them alone.</p>
<p>yeah seeing celebs is just something u get accustomed to out here…</p>
<p>i remember in the summer driving on the 101 freeway just looked to the side and saw 100 foot green screen right off the freeway with people flying from cranes as they were filming iron man 2</p>
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<p>^ Haha yeah true. If you were raised in LA you know better than to pester them.</p>
<p>I pass by that thing all the time. I regularly commute between Eagle Rock, Santa Monica, and Woodland Hills.
The 10, 405, and 101 are my worst enemies.</p>
<p>if you go 2 ucla they have movie premieres less than a block away in westwood village…i saw the red carpet being set up for hot tub time machine premiere a month ago</p>
<p>Hot Tub Time Machine will sweep 2011 award season. I’m calling it now!</p>
<p>True, went to a movie premiere last November and saw some peeps…LOL >__<;;;</p>
<p>just saw kick ass last night, it was really good also</p>
<p>P.S., I was kidding about award season. I take that shiz seriously.</p>
<p>Haha, yeah! I lived in Westwood last year. Movie premieres there all the time. Twilight was by far the loudest. I can hear those teenage girls screaming from a half-mile away, hahah. That would be celebrity worship, I guess. But I wouldn’t be surprised if those stalker fans flew in from New York to see the premier and Pattinson.</p>
<p>OK, I was born and raised in Petaluma, which is in Northern California (30 mins from SF.) Recently though, for the past 4 years, I lived in Huntington Beach, which is in Southern California (30 mins from LA.) Both Nor-Cal and So-Cal have their pros and cons, but ultimately, I believe that So-Cal is a better place to live when you’re young (0-27), and Nor-Cal is a better place to have a career, raise a family, and retire. Living in So-Cal sometimes feels suffocating, while living in Nor-Cal often has that rural feel to it and you’re often faced with that small town everyone knows everyone type of atmosphere. People in Nor-Cal smoke a lot of pot, and marijuana has its own culture up here, where it’s just kind of a way of life for many people. Needless to say, people in Nor-Cal are generally more liberal leaning. In So-Cal (especially in Orange County) people tend to be more conservative. In Nor-Cal we have Tahoe, in So-Cal there is Big Bear. I believe people in So-Cal are a little more outgoing and friendly, while people in Nor-Cal are more reserved and keep to themselves. The weather in So-Cal is consistently nice and in the 70’s pretty much year round, except for about 2 weeks. In Nor-Cal there is definitely more of the changing of the seasons; it can rain from October through April (and the temperatures dip into the 40’s regularly). Summers in Nor-Cal are mild, summers in So-Cal are HOT!</p>
<p>Oh yea, in Nor-Cal we say “hella” in So-Cal they say “Gnarley”</p>
<p>In Nor-Cal we say “I’m going to get on 101”
In So-Cal they say “I’m going to get on the 101”</p>
<p>I do add “the” before the freeway number. Guilty!</p>
<p>Gnarly? lol. I’ve never heard that said down here in my life. We, down here, say things like super cool, or tight, or sick.</p>
<p>Lol, I have never met anyone that says ‘gnarley’ - surf slang is a complete socal stereotype.</p>
<p>Though I don’t get why saying “…on the 101” would be a bad thing. But maybe it’s because I’m from the dirtay south; I do it, too :P</p>
<p>Thats funny about the freeways. I’m from Nor-cal, never really thought about it but I don’t say the “the”.</p>