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SF is a sharp contrast to SoCal. There is no singular “Californian” identity as CA basically a country disguised as a state, with far too much diversity to call CA one thing.
I'll disagree with that. There is no singular characteristic, but there are a series of characteristics that easily identify someone as Californian, the following of which I noted in SF that reminded me of other parts of California:
Climate, flora, geography, ethnic representation, biking culture, homeless population, slang, dialect, etc. Those things jumped out at me...
I think the thing we at least have to be aware of, is that just because it has things in common with other places, doesn't make it less Californian or less like the other two...
Random thought - I feel like Seattle area slang was pretty similar to SF area slang. Most notably, I mean the word "hella". I feel like a lot of Seattle natives use that word too in a way that people in LA don't. I always associate the overuse of the word "like" with Southern California.
Random thought - I feel like Seattle area slang was pretty similar to SF area slang. Most notably, I mean the word "hella". I feel like a lot of Seattle natives use that word too in a way that people in LA don't. I always associate the overuse of the word "like" with Southern California.
Seattle street slang has a lot of overlap with Bay Area street slang, that's for sure.
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I voted for the PNW—more green, urban and less beach culture than SoCal...also, unless things have changed from when I lived in SF, most people who live in the Bay Area—especially the city—want nothing to do with SoCal and will go out of their way to tell you as much.
Random thought - I feel like Seattle area slang was pretty similar to SF area slang. Most notably, I mean the word "hella". I feel like a lot of Seattle natives use that word too in a way that people in LA don't. I always associate the overuse of the word "like" with Southern California.
People say hella in all urban invironments. I live in Connecticut and people have said that for decades.
I voted for the PNW—more green, urban and less beach culture than SoCal...also, unless things have changed from when I lived in SF, most people who live in the Bay Area—especially the city—want nothing to do with SoCal and will go out of their way to tell you as much.
While San Fran does have more in common with Seattle, I say that San Fran is almost as close to SoCal as it is to Seattle. Seattle actually felt a lot like SoCal, other than Seattle being gloomier.
The entire West Coast is just one long strip of bland. From San Diego to Vancouver, BC, there's very little cultural variation. The East Coast, from Florida to Maine, has far more cultural variation.
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