San Francisco vs San Diego vs Los Angeles 2013-2014 (poll)

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Originally Posted by jamills21

Sounds like you spend all your time on the westside... Dat westside bubble .

As opposed to most people on this site who've lived in neither place but talk like they know the intimate details of the areas based on City Data and Google Maps

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Originally Posted by GatsbyGatz

That's a pretty painful story to hear. Good luck for him. I left SoCal because the legal job market is particularly stiff there.

Really? Probably depends on the field because my wife gets offers to be poached constantly.

I don't think a cashier not knowing what the Bar exam is really says much. She is a cashier. If she was a paralegal or a secretary, then it would be embarrassing.

I think sometimes transplants try to act ditzy or spacey because they think it is cool (or they really are dumb). I would agree that SF is more of an academic city than LA, not so sure about SD outside of UCSD.

And actually where I live in Pasadena, people have that Bay Area intellectualism because the JPL and Cal Tech are so close. Definitely feels a world away from that 'Westside bubble'.

[Bunjee]

I get it but I'm not really comfortable painting the Westside with too broad a brush. Even a scan of educational attainment by zip code indicates the Westside scores pretty well, 59%-65% bachelors and 27%-35% masters or professional degrees. Higher rents of course correlate to higher education.

I get the dig like I said--I'm not really at home in the Marina District in SF either--but given those stats surely folks can seek out an "intellectual" life they're comfortable with, even in the vapid Westside...?

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Originally Posted by Bunjee

I get it but I'm not really comfortable painting the Westside with too broad a brush. Even a scan of educational attainment by zip code indicates the Westside scores pretty well, 59%-65% bachelors and 27%-35% masters or professional degrees. Higher rents of course correlate to higher education.

I get the dig like I said--I'm not really at home in the Marina District in SF either--but given those stats surely folks can seek out an "intellectual" life they're comfortable with, even in the vapid Westside...?

Honestly I think the Westside is more a state of mind than a geographic location. Plenty of "Westsiders" living in neighborhoods like Silver Lake and Downtown LA.