What is it like to live in California?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Technically, I live in the South now— Virginia. IMHO, any place with people that expect sweet tea to be served with every meal is considered the South. LOL. Y’ALLLLL!</p>

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<p>east coast, ftw. and btw i’ve been to both florida and california. california beaches win by a longshot, imo.</p>

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<p>bigwill, I drink sweet tea everyday. I can’t get enough of it! That and lemonade.</p>

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<p>lol. you’re definitely a true southerner! I love lemonade too.</p>

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<p>Nice weather, beaches, etc…it really depends where you live, it’s a generalization.</p>

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<p>You guys can’t be serious. Florida beaches kill California beaches due to water temperature. You can wade in the water all day in Florida. Sure the waves might be better in Cali but surfers are a very low portion of the population. Cali water is cold.</p>

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<p>^the cool CA current is what makes its weather perfect…not too warm</p>

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<p>I live in San Diego, and I must say, I love it. The beaches are literally within 15-20 minutes of any part of the county. The weather is nice (though we do have some odd days; and it does get REALLY hot, especially in east county). There’s plenty to do here, whether it be going to the beach, mall, club, etc. I wouldn’t mind going to college here but I kind of want to get away. Hopefully I’ll still go to college in CA (preferably north)</p>

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<p>haha, even the people in paradise want to get away</p>

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<p>One thing I love about San Diego is that the school are open campus which means the halls are outside and you aren’t stuck in a building all day long, like in the East Coast. I also love the fact that you can go snowboarding in the winter and surfing in the summer and rock climbing any time of the year, but thats because i’m an outdoor junkie.</p>

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<p>Southerner here and my high school is an open campus too. We’re the only school like that in my city though.</p>

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<p>Born and raised in NoCal. It sucks. When I go to the library, English-language books fill barely half the library. You’re considered “out of the loop” if you don’t know a thousand foreign musicians. And if you don’t speak some funny foreign language…</p>

<p>Not to mention there’s nothing to eat except generic chains (some are actually good though), and Mexican food (some is actually REALLY good though. I <3 Mexican food.) But it gets old after a while.</p>

<p>And God help you if you send a kid to school here. Unless you lock them in their room to study six hours a day and deny them any kind of life outside of school, prepare to have them decimated by the legions of random ratrace-prone kids from China/Taiwan/Korea/India/etc. (it’s not like normal people can tell the difference anyway), and reamed when it comes to college application time. Because whether or not your kid has a life outside of school, their parents will make sure their kids don’t.</p>

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<p>NorCal is awesome, but Davis is lame
I wish I hadn’t grown up here because then I would love to go to UCD haha</p>

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The thing is, “cold” is relative - I’ve gotten used to the “coldness”, and atm it really doesn’t feel cold - I rather prefer it over the really warm water.</p>

<p>But Florida beaches are really nice too, I have to admit.</p>

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<p>The Bay Area is a nice place to live, like for example some of the nicer areas are Palo Alto, Danville, Los Altos, Alamo, Blackhawk, etcetc, where the houses are HUGE. The weather is also very nice and dry, we dont really have the seasons that the East Coast has…
so, the bay area is mostly suburban. Besides the amusement parks and zoos and San Francisco, theres not much else to do.</p>

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<p>The one place I have been in California is Danville about 7 years ago and I remember it being really nice</p>

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<p>To sum up Cali…it’s expensive…</p>

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<p>^ same with the east coast right?</p>

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<p>^Not really, I think it depends on where you live though. Where I live in CA, you can expect to pay over a million for a house:( I am never going to be able to afford to live here after college:(</p>

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<p>^haha. How vague :]

I live in one of those cities : )</p>

<p>I always forget to lock my front door in case you guys were wondering. Oh, and we don’t have an alarm system installed. Feel free to waltz right on in :]</p>

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Ah, but that’s the beauty of Norcal. Most people appreciate the multicultural environment and people. I find your last paragraph rather bigoted :] Or bitter. haha. It’s okay, different people like different things : )</p>