Why do Californians have a tendency of getting mad if you say anything negative about California? (Riverside: live, prices)

[EclecticEars]

Post something negative about Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, or Georgia in those states' forums.

Texans will tell you "God Blessed Texas." Kentuckians, most especially eastern Kentuckians, will tell you to not disrespect their "heritage." The mod(s) in the Ohio fora (particularly Cincinnati) are quick to ban people with any perceived negative commentary about Ohio (and that actually almost happened to me on C-D). Georgia...well, Atlantans have been thinking for 50 years that they're the next "it" world city, the next Los Angeles.

Californians do get defensive, yes. However, Californians just put up the "don't care" shield after so long. In the other aforementioned, whether on C-D or in real life, just...choose your words very wisely, or preferably not at all.

[incognitoe]

Originally Posted by EclecticEars

Post something negative about Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, or Georgia in those states' forums.

Texans will tell you "God Blessed Texas." Kentuckians, most especially eastern Kentuckians, will tell you to not disrespect their "heritage." The mod(s) in the Ohio fora (particularly Cincinnati) are quick to ban people with any perceived negative commentary about Ohio (and that actually almost happened to me on C-D). Georgia...well, Atlantans have been thinking for 50 years that they're the next "it" world city, the next Los Angeles.

Yet no one wants to live there. lol Only reason why I hear people wanting to move to Texas is because home prices are 1/3 of what they cost here AND no State income tax.

It's like the Govt has to bribe people to stay.

[Oldglory]

I don't get upset when someone makes a negative comment about Calif. even though I am a resident of this state. Other than the nice weather, beaches and mountains our government stinks. We are a political and fiscal mess here.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

I thought of this thread yesterday, after I went to the Grocery Outlet here and chatted with one of the checkers. He mentioned that he hates living here, that the city is corrupt, that CA is horrible, and he hopes to move out of the state with his 5 kids sometime soon.

And what I thought was, it's not so much about Californians or Kentuckians or Texans defending where they live, it's that they probably just don't want to listen to someone b*tch LOL. I couldn't wait to get away from that guy. He exuded negativity.

I also don't like listening to friends complain about their husbands, yet won't leave them. Or their jobs, yet they stay.

I didn't get into it with the checker, but in my mind I was thinking about how much I like it here. And in my mind I was thinking, what a shame that someone could live in such a beautiful place and be so miserable.

Oh, and he told me he's lived here for 13 years.

Sh*t or get off the pot already. I think some people are actually happy in their unhappiness, though. Or maybe they are incapable of change.

I don't know. I'm not a shrink. I just know I don't want to listen to them LOL. I think it's a knee-jerk reaction to intense negativity about something/someplace/someone you love, to defend it. And then stay far away from them.

So, maybe this is the "unfriendliness" people are talking about? If you go on about how you hate CA, and I'm a Californian who loves CA, I'm not going to be nice to you any longer than it takes to get away from you.

[AmorphicDN]

Originally Posted by NoMoreSnowForMe

I thought of this thread yesterday, after I went to the Grocery Outlet here and chatted with one of the checkers. He mentioned that he hates living here, that the city is corrupt, that CA is horrible, and he hopes to move out of the state with his 5 kids sometime soon.

And what I thought was, it's not so much about Californians or Kentuckians or Texans defending where they live, it's that they probably just don't want to listen to someone b*tch LOL. I couldn't wait to get away from that guy. He exuded negativity.

I also don't like listening to friends complain about their husbands, yet won't leave them. Or their jobs, yet they stay.

I didn't get into it with the checker, but in my mind I was thinking about how much I like it here. And in my mind I was thinking, what a shame that someone could live in such a beautiful place and be so miserable.

Oh, and he told me he's lived here for 13 years.

Sh*t or get off the pot already. I think some people are actually happy in their unhappiness, though. Or maybe they are incapable of change.

I don't know. I'm not a shrink. I just know I don't want to listen to them LOL. I think it's a knee-jerk reaction to intense negativity about something/someplace/someone you love, to defend it. And then stay far away from them.

So, maybe this is the "unfriendliness" people are talking about? If you go on about how you hate CA, and I'm a Californian who loves CA, I'm not going to be nice to you any longer than it takes to get away from you.

Excellent!

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by NoMoreSnowForMe

I think some people are actually happy in their unhappiness, though. Or maybe they are incapable of change.

Bingo.

These are people who have few resources to which to turn to assuage their insanity, thus they are reduced to engaging in endless crabbing about...anything. It's not just CA - just an easy target. So we let them spew their Dittohead kvetching instructions. They follow the script well, but don't realize there's not a reward at the end for their valiant servitude. Theirs is an ironic entertainment. The more the cretins wax moody on CA, the better it looks. If the dopey, angry, psychotic, born loser, even-Viagra-doesn't-work mongrels can't contain their fury...we must be doing something right.

[tifoso]

If anything, Californians seem to be MORE willing than most to acknowledge the less-than-savory characteristics of their state and/or locality.

I can't speak to what it's like in SoCal, but in the Bay Area at least, most people seem reasonably friendly. Certainly more so than in Seattle, where I've spent almost all of the last four decades. It's called the "Seattle Freeze" for a reason.

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by tifoso

If anything, Californians seem to be MORE willing than most to acknowledge the less-than-savory characteristics of their state and/or locality.

I can't speak to what it's like in SoCal, but in the Bay Area at least, most people seem reasonably friendly. Certainly more so than in Seattle, where I've spent almost all of the last four decades. It's called the "Seattle Freeze" for a reason.

We're well used to deflecting the barkers. All the yapping doth not release them from their cages.

[Snort]

after I went to the Grocery Outlet here and chatted with one of the checkers. He mentioned that he hates living here, that the city is corrupt, that CA is horrible, and he hopes to move out of the state with his 5 kids sometime soon.

5 kids and working year after year at the Grocery Outlet, I'd give him a pass just for that particular purgatory he's living.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

Originally Posted by bigdumbgod

Bingo.

These are people who have few resources to which to turn to assuage their insanity, thus they are reduced to engaging in endless crabbing about...anything. It's not just CA - just an easy target. So we let them spew their Dittohead kvetching instructions. They follow the script well, but don't realize there's not a reward at the end for their valiant servitude. Theirs is an ironic entertainment. The more the cretins wax moody on CA, the better it looks. If the dopey, angry, psychotic, born loser, even-Viagra-doesn't-work mongrels can't contain their fury...we must be doing something right.

LMAO! I couldn't rep you again.

Originally Posted by Snort

5 kids and working year after year at the Grocery Outlet, I'd give him a pass just for that particular purgatory he's living.

LOL, I see your point. But, he moved to CC from southern CA and stayed here hating it for 13 years. I can't find sympathy in his choosing to stay. He wasn't in the prison afterall