US - East Coast vs West Coast (live, better, compare)

[Fleet]

Originally Posted by AlGreen

You're acting like I was saying California is butt ugly. I said it wasn't as beautiful as Italy, in my opinion. You homers are something else...

Hey, I'm not a Homer (Simpson)!

[jgamibi]

I say the east coast mainly because I like real people, I found people on the west coast to be extremely fake in my experience.

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by Fleet

But, yes, you do have your opinion (even though many would disagree with it).

Yeah trust me, you're not the first person to disagree with his opinions, I do in almost every single one of them.

[AlGreen]

Originally Posted by DANNYY

Yeah trust me, you're not the first person to disagree with his opinions, I do in almost every single one of them.

And everyone disagrees with you. Go somewhere.

No need to fault AlGreen for seeing what y'all's peasant eyes can't.

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by AlGreen

And everyone disagrees with you. Go somewhere.

No need to fault AlGreen for seeing what y'all's peasant eyes can't.

Haha you take things so seriously, the only real things I disagree with you on are "The South", "Illegal Immigration", & "Dallas feeling Midwestern". That's about it though, which by the way compromises half of our conversations.

I do agree though, Italy is beautiful, not saying California isn't because it most surely is, but Italy has great topography, unique cities like Venice, and I'm not an architecture buff but there are very few places that can compete with hundreds and hundreds of year old architecture like that in Rome.

[ForYourLungsOnly]

I'll go with midwest...then you're right in the middle

[Fleet]

Originally Posted by jgamibi

I say the east coast mainly because I like real people, I found people on the west coast to be extremely fake in my experience.

You do realize that many west coast people originally lived on the east coast?

Also, claiming that people on the west coast are "extremely fake" is an extremely over-generalization. Like if I said that all New Yorkers say "youse."

[AlGreen]

Originally Posted by DANNYY

Haha you take things so seriously, the only real things I disagree with you on are "The South", "Illegal Immigration", & "Dallas feeling Midwestern". That's about it though, which by the way compromises half of our conversations.

I do agree though, Italy is beautiful, not saying California isn't because it most surely is, but Italy has great topography, unique cities like Venice, and I'm not an architecture buff but there are very few places that can compete with hundreds and hundreds of year old architecture like that in Rome.

when did we ever disagree on "The South"?...nevermind, that's another subject.

[sprintrps]

I lived in California for 25+ years, and retired to Florida, as West Coast is just too expensive for basic needs like housing, etc. However, I would prefer to live on the West Coast because Monday Night Football comes on at 5:30 instead of 8:30!!!!!

[vincentmassey]

Originally Posted by missRoxyhart

I wanted to do the Western US versus the Eastern US cause I thought that would be fun and really interesting but I'm tired and this is alot more manageable, so maybe later.

West Coast



States
Alaska
Hawaii
Washington
Oregon
California
Nevada
Arizona

Population - 58,927,670
GDP - 2,890,352 (Millions)

Top 10 Metros
1. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 12,874,797
2. Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ 4,364,094
3. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 4,317,853
4. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 4,143,113
5. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA 3,407,848
6. San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA 3,053,793
7. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 2,241,841
8. Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville, CA 2,127,355
9. Las Vegas-Paradise, NV 1,902,834
10. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 1,839,700

East Coast



States
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida

Population - 113,244,226
GDP - 5,452,393 (Millions)

Top 10 Metros
1. New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA 19,069,796
2. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 5,968,252
3. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL 5,547,051
4. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 5,476,241
5. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 5,475,213
6. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH 4,588,680
7. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 2,747,272
8. Baltimore-Towson, MD 2,690,886
9. Pittsburgh, PA 2,354,957
10. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL 2,082,421

I know it's a huge comparison but we can try, if you can't comment on everything, comment on what you know.

Points for comparison
States-
Cities-
Economy-

Education/State systems/Colleges-
Sports/Professional/College-

Transportation/Airports/Ports (Also for economy)/Roads/Rail-
Things to do/Amusement Parks/Outdoors/Beaches/Cities-

Culture (High culture, museums, theater, art, music, architecture etc.)(Culture of an area, food, sports, music etc., there's some overlap) +Whatever you consider to be part of culture/History/Your preference-

Personal preference/Weather, Where would you rather live etc.-
Anything else you can think of/Anything you want (The more the better)-

I will prefer The East Coast better because is more English, that the west Coast where most of the people are Scots-Irish

Also, East Coast, has history that West Coast doesn't have. Such as Colonial homes, colonial university, like University of Virginia and other higher instution.

Also, I prefer East Coast because people have good mannerism, the women dress conservative compare to the West Coast where they have been influence by Scots-Irish way of dressing.