Why do Californians have a tendency of getting mad if you say anything negative about California? (earthquakes, taxes)

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by NoMoreSnowForMe

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

Yes, it doesn't help the kiddies (guy has a whole basketball team) to have to endure perpetually angry Daddy.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

Originally Posted by bigdumbgod

Yes, it doesn't help the kiddies (guy has a whole basketball team) to have to endure perpetually angry Daddy.

No kidding.

[DjRey]

Originally Posted by expatCA

I lived in Texas. I had a flat tire and just about every person that drove by stopped and offered to help. In CA they would honk and yell and keep right on going, in most cases.

Texas is like CA, big and diverse as to topography, but is different in many ways and some are good and some are bad. In Alaska is just flat tooooo cold for me.

LOL, This is unfortunately very true..People in bigger cities in CA (Especially LA) have lost there human compassion. Even NYC isn't as bad as far as people helping somebody every now and then.

[3rdGen SFan]

Originally Posted by DjRey

LOL, This is unfortunately very true..People in bigger cities in CA (Especially LA) have lost there human compassion. Even NYC isn't as bad as far as people helping somebody every now and then.

There's a mixture of compassionate & uncompassionate people here in SF. A couple of months ago, I was trying to take my bike's tire off the rim to change the inner tube (it got punctured & flattened by glass).

I was sitting in a parklet for maybe almost an hour trying to get that tight tire off the rim. The tire levers just kept bending an popping out. The parklet was on a very busy street (Valencia Street) on either a Friday or Saturday night, techies & hipsters everywhere, but NOBODY offered to help. All I got were stares, a couple of people taking pictures with their cellphones (one covertly, the other obviously), and people talking amongst themselves while watching me. I believe they might have mistook me for a bike thief, but I don't know for sure.

I ended up having to push my bike home.

On a more recent occasion, the rear brake cable slipped. While I was trying to tighten the barrel adjuster, I heard "do you need any help?" "Need to borrow any tools?" Two guys (who seemed to be a gay couple) were immediately offering help as they rode over to me! This was in an area where people tend to be on the friendly side, and a popular bike route (called "The Wiggle"), so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised yet I wasn't expecting help because I was only working on the brake for about a minute.

Another day soon after & more recently, all I did was dismount my bike to cross an intersection in the crosswalk (the nearby bike route has a dangerous intersection to ride through, so take a safer way). As soon as I dismounted, a guy who was passing by asked me (in a Southern accent) "are ya set to ride?" I didn't know what he meant at first, and asked "huh?" Then when he asked if there was something wrong with my bike and if I needed any help I realized he was kindly offering help. This was on Market Street, and that guy looked like he might have been homeless or poor, but, of strangers, it's usually the homeless & poor who are kind to strangers around here these days... or at least to me.

I also help and offer to help strangers when I can.

[Seven_days]

Originally Posted by Mini-apple-less

I'm not saying EVERYONE in California is like this, but I've noticed if you say anything critical about California, aside from the typical ranting about illegal Mexicans or socialists, people will shun you or resent you for your "negative attitude". Whether it's the drought, the poor schools, the unaffordability of housing and everything else. It seems like if you don't think California is Heaven on Earth people think you are crazy there.

Why? I have friends from states in the South, Midwest and Northeast and while most of them have some pride in where they live and still support their sports teams, they are willing to admit that their home state sucks or is below par in some regards. One of my good friends is from Indianapolis and he's more than willing to admit that Indiana kind of sucks in many ways. I have another friend from Ohio who also hated it there even though he is still a fan of all the Cleveland teams.

Californians on the other hand seem to feel a need to be #1 in everything. It's really like "America's America".

Self-entitlement. Why it exists here is debatable.

[Electrician4you]

Originally Posted by Mini-apple-less

I'm not saying EVERYONE in California is like this, but I've noticed if you say anything critical about California, aside from the typical ranting about illegal Mexicans or socialists, people will shun you or resent you for your "negative attitude". Whether it's the drought, the poor schools, the unaffordability of housing and everything else. It seems like if you don't think California is Heaven on Earth people think you are crazy there.

Why? I have friends from states in the South, Midwest and Northeast and while most of them have some pride in where they live and still support their sports teams, they are willing to admit that their home state sucks or is below par in some regards. One of my good friends is from Indianapolis and he's more than willing to admit that Indiana kind of sucks in many ways. I have another friend from Ohio who also hated it there even though he is still a fan of all the Cleveland teams.

Californians on the other hand seem to feel a need to be #1 in everything. It's really like "America's America".

Where the hell do people come up with this crap?

I have pride where I live. What I am is tired of people who
One ... have NEVER stepped foot in California, never lived here but they know all about how we are. Two...people who came here on a vacation and became experts in two weeks and know all about how we are
Three...people who came here to live but tucked tail and ran back home because it’s California fault they couldn’t make it

There is no state out there that perfect. To me California is where I live and I work. I don’t hate the state. I don’t care for the way the politicians of California run the state. It’s a huge difference.
Most Californians I know have a let live attitude. And they are a hell of a lot more accepting of people from other states. Where if someone from California moves to their state you would think we eat their young for breakfast.

[LJS1993]

As a life long Californian who has witnessed the slow degradation of this state first hand let me say it in a nutshell. You have a LOT of ultra lefties in this state who get extremely defensive about this degradation and will defend said degradation with every piece of fiber in their body. If it's insane gas prices they will defend it. If it's insane social justice programs that leech off the greater good of the state, they will defend it. Therefore if you say anything critical of this once wonderful state get ready for insults and extremely demeaning comments.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Electrician4you

Where the hell do people come up with this crap?

I have pride where I live. What I am is tired of people who
One ... have NEVER stepped foot in California, never lived here but they know all about how we are. Two...people who came here on a vacation and became experts in two weeks and know all about how we are
Three...people who came here to live but tucked tail and ran back home because it’s California fault they couldn’t make it

There is no state out there that perfect. To me California is where I live and I work. I don’t hate the state. I don’t care for the way the politicians of California run the state. It’s a huge difference.
Most Californians I know have a let live attitude. And they are a hell of a lot more accepting of people from other states. Where if someone from California moves to their state you would think we eat their young for breakfast.

“Mmmmmm, breakfast ...” - Homer Simpson

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by LJS1993

As a life long Californian who has witnessed the slow degradation of this state first hand let me say it in a nutshell. You have a LOT of ultra lefties in this state who get extremely defensive about this degradation and will defend said degradation with every piece of fiber in their body. If it's insane gas prices they will defend it. If it's insane social justice programs that leech off the greater good of the state, they will defend it. Therefore if you say anything critical of this once wonderful state get ready for insults and extremely demeaning comments.

Maybe you should get out of Riverside and see how the rest of the state is? It's really big and quite diverse in case you didn't know.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by Seven_days

Self-entitlement. Why it exists here is debatable.

You lost me there, I'm not sure you know what self-entitlement means