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<blockquote> <p>Give me the seasons anyday.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>As I recall, the concept of four seasons usually wound up involving jumper cables.</p>
<p>pshh, jumper cables are only needed for people who arent used to having a car in the cold. Make sure you run the car long enough to keep a startable charge, own a battery charger, park on hills (if you drive a manual so you can start without the battery)...the list goes on and on...</p>
<p>Arizona kids all wish they were California kids.
and then they come back and are like "hot damn everything is expensive there".
but that doesn't stop them from tanning, being shallow and rocking surf gear (...dude, we live in a desert, you're not fooling anyone)</p>
<p>on Long Island we think they are the coolest people to step foot on the earth (laid back and liberal, basically). In Pittsburgh where I go to school Cali is the second coolest place to be from (NY generally ranks higher).</p>
<p>California is filled with a Buch of Liberal scum.</p>
<p>From south to north...</p>
<p>Lazy People
Fake/obnoxious people/liberals
Homosexuals
Hippies
Techies
More hippies
More fake people/liberals</p>
<p>You base this analysis on what, exactly?</p>
<p>Don't engage people that can only insult others. They have shown their true selves to the world. How sad is that. These two posters only want to create constroversy and that is how they have fun because, well, I can't figure that out. Insulting their fellow Americans seems who may happen to be different is about as immature as one can get.</p>
<p>Ignore them. They want to get something going and call names. Its all they can do. They know no other way.</p>
<p>I'm friends with a girl from California, who came to school in Massachusetts. Let me say, as good friends that we are, she is exactly what I pictured of a Cali girl. She complains about the weather EVERY DAY, she has to spend at least a half hour longer getting ready to go out, she is always looking in the mirror, she goes tanning at least twice a month, she spends hours shopping for one thing, and she can't go anywhere by herself. Now, I'm not saying that everyone from California acts like that, but she certainly fulfilled every sterotype of a Californian that I ever knew.</p>
<p>Well, I'm from Texas, so most people think of Californians as those evil liberal people, not that I agree with that... I just tease my Californian friend about how he thinks he'd be a surfer if he were back in CA. It's a lie, he has no coordination or athletic ability.</p>
<p>Well, we in California think about girls from the south like femme thinks of girls from California...panty hose on hot days, way too much hairspray and in dresses all the time</p>
<p>and sometimes, its just the girl who is like that, not the entire population of a state</p>
<p>And we liberal evil people are actually really cool,. are have taste, and can ski, swim in the ocean, and white water raft all in one day</p>
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<blockquote> <p>pshh, jumper cables are only needed for people who arent used to having a car in the cold. Make sure you run the car long enough to keep a startable charge, own a battery charger, park on hills (if you drive a manual so you can start without the battery)...the list goes on and on...<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Jumper cables, or owning a battery charger, or parking on a hill, are only needed for people who don't have the advantage of living in a warm climate like southern California. The list goes on and on....</p>
<p>I grew up in Alaska where you had to plug your car in, and yes, we Californias are whiney when it comes to the weather, its just that we are so used to it being pleasant and easy. Shoveling snow, been there done that.</p>
<p>And beatiful snow and the easy study of static electricity are advantages afforded to those who live in a place that actually has seasons. </p>
<p>Of course, this is coming from someone who has finished their last high school season of comptetive downhill skiing. I actually rather like california, I just would rather not have to travel for my snow.</p>
<p>californians huh? well, i've never been to cali, but most people around here in the south think of californians as: rich/librals/vegan/hippy/wanna be surfer/fake/hollywood/plastic surgery....
i know that's not all true. and you cant judge somone by what STATE they live in, but that's just the general conception around here as far as i know it. from my personal experience i've found southerners and some westerners (like texans) to be the most friendly americans. northerners (ie new yorkers and people from new jersey) are rude, impatient, and snobby. And many of the people from cali that i've met have been rich and stuck up. but maybe i've just met some uncool people, i know it doenst really have much to do with the state they're from.</p>
<p>And those in the north and California generate a whole lot of taxes to pay for alot of that stuff in the south.</p>
<p>And what is great about California is that we live and let live- we don't judge people the way people in the South and Texas do. You can be rich, poor, a contractor, a banker, have big hair, be bald,...whatever and we could care less....while those others judge us without even meeting us</p>
<p>You forgot we also pay the cost of schooling for the scores of children who are either illlegal immigrants or the offspring of illegal immigrants...</p>
<p>I happen to share nat's views... I found most of the people I've met in the Southern and Midwestern states to be genuinely pleasant and amiable...while the Northeasterners seemed rather stuck up aloof. Though these are really simple generalizations and completely opinionated... </p>
<p>Californians are different from Northeastern people, they have more in common with Floridians then with the East. I didn't find Oregonians or Washingtonians to be very likable folks either.</p>
<p>I was grew up mostly in SoCal and lived for five years in the MidAtlantic states. I've visited parts of the southwest-east: Arizona to Texas, and parts of Georgia and Florida.
I didn't really identify myself with the Floridians, but more towards the New Englanders. It's not like I have a distaste for people from other states- I love meeting new people..
It's just my personality meshes better with most NE people than others. I'm not particularly laid-back, although I've learned to slow down in the past few years.. and I'm not vain, I think.. I'm liberal, and is one of the few Californian aspects of me..
But many people live in suburbia, and are conservative.. and aren't "hippy." In fact, most aren't.. California's a huge state- there are so many counties that have their individual towns and cities that have their own personalities. Same goes for other states.
Actually, the weather in San Diego has been pretty abnormally dreary and grayish. I'm pale- almost translucent.. along with a few other people around school.. and am not an outcast.. there are tons of tanned people in Cali, but there are nice people without them here too.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Actually, the weather in San Diego has been pretty abnormally dreary and grayish.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>It's that way every every year from Memorial Day to the 4th of July. It's the "June Gloom".</p>
<p>California offers for its residents, in terms of higher education: 10 University of Californias, 22 California State Universities, hundreds of community colleges as well as the Cal Grant program which has a relatively high ceiling. </p>
<p>Regrarding the Gropenfuher (aka Governor Schwarznegger), his approval rating is about 40% right now, so there goes that. He has called a special election; in modern Californian history, the only other Californian governor to call a special election (Reagan) lost that battle in the election.</p>
<p>Regarding it's economy, California offers the largest U.S. port in the United States, allowing businesses large and small to continue to take complete advantage of lower labor costs abroad. California's wealth (though it might be hard to see it considering the Legislature can't seem to stop practicing an outdated form of Keynesian economics) is not just a result of it's large population, but the result of a diversified economy along with many resources; large population does not equate a strong, developed economy (e.g. India). Whereas states on the East Coast are primarily focused in banking insurance, and other fiscal aspects, and the Midwest primarily an agricultural economy, California offers financial institutions that call the state home, a strong agricultural community (San Joaquin Valley--come on, where else can you get avocados?), a bustling tech center (despite the bust of the the early milennium), and much more. As a side note, California has the eighth largest economy in the world when compared to not only other states, but other countries. </p>
<p>Regarding political stereotypes, if one looks at the map of California, an overwhelming majority of counties voted for GW Bush in 2000 and 2004; however, the densely populated areas of San Francisco and surrounding area as well as the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles voted for Gore (2000) and Kerry (2004) and hence it's electoral votes went to the Democratic candidates. Critics of the liberalism in California often neglect that the state produced the modern father of conservatism, Ronald Reagan, who was not only President of the United States and revived a straggling Republican Party, but also a Governor of California. President Nixon also came from California. Before the tenure of Governor Davis, Governor Pete Wilson--again a Republican--controlled the state's executive office.</p>
<p>The people of California, portrayed as laid-back surfers, rich celebrities, high hippies, etc. are diverse. Ethnically speaking, the largest Chinese population outside Asia resides in California, as well as Indians, Japanese, Koreans, etc. Though not all Californians are tolerant, it can be said the Californians are accepting of different views, willing to engage in lively discussions on various issues, while remaining civil to their colleagues. </p>
<p>California's weather and geography also provides its residents a rich contrast. Snow in Mammoth, the wonderful beaches of Laguna, Newport, Huntington, etc., the deserts, the mountains, etc. </p>
<p>For natural disasters, California does has it share, particularly earthquakes and fires during the summer time. However, a highly trained emergency response team continues to provide assurance to its community.</p>
<p>And much more can be said about the Golden State. To many abroad, California and Californians may be perhaps too self-assured, too laid back, and other stereotypes. But for us living here--born here or not-- California is home.</p>