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Old 03-12-2016, 09:00 AM
 
Location: Near L.A.
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San Jose - High tech suburban office parks, introverted passive-aggressive, aloof, asians and old white guys, financially loaded, bitter natives, segregated from the rest of the bay area by choice, horrible drivers, bad traffic, teslas! Still boring.
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Old 03-12-2016, 09:04 AM
 
Location: Near L.A.
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Barstow: Armpit of the state. Abandoned outlet mall on the outskirts. 110 degrees in the shade. Plenty of zombies. Freeway-close to Victorville!
I could say similar things for El Centro and Adelanto.
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Old 03-12-2016, 09:14 AM
 
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Aliso Viejo-Young, vibrant, health-conscious, environmentally-aware, athletic, friendly, growing , innovative, tech savvy, research-driven, competitive, entrepreneurial, and frustrated with lots of pent-up energy and too few local options with which to use it.


Gotta add: 50/50 liberal/conservative, balanced budget (even a revenue surplus), well-maintained, safe, clean, good schools, cookie-cutter boring architecture, too few non-chain restaurants, hilly, pretty with flowers & trees all over, great mountain views, and ocean-close with plenty of water-lubbers.

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Old 03-12-2016, 09:35 AM
 
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San Diego - Cohesive by SoCal standards, comfortable, laid-back, too dry and treeless, but near-perfect mild weather, socially liberal- fiscally conservative, Sacramento-like with ocean beaches.
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Old 03-12-2016, 10:47 AM
 
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Someone do santa barbara and santa cruz plz
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Old 03-12-2016, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Northern California
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San Jose - Huge Suburb. Downtown high-rises that resemble office parks. Believes its more better than well established cities because its the center of the tech world. Orange County of the Bay. Geeky. Nerdy. White Collar. Hot Asian chicks!

Sacramento - The LA of the Central Valley. Bohemian. Green. Sustainable. Diverse. Outgoing. Blue Collar. Northern California's Second City.

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Old 03-12-2016, 11:11 AM
 
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Someone do santa barbara and santa cruz plz
Santa Cruz- Provincial, ultra liberal, old hippies, old money and new Silicon Valley money clash. Homeless, vagrants. South facing beachs with fantastic surfing, off of cliff, bluff, cove, bay and beach.

Unique quintessential coastal Nor-Cal Beach and College town, Redwoods meet the beach and surf. Big bonfires on the beach.
Old-fashion beach boardwalk amusement park, fantastic ocean fishing pier.

Brown shirt socialists behind laptops stirring-up the brown shirt communists of Oakland. *Brown shirts were the radicals of nazi Germany.

The last big earthquake (1989 - Loma Prieta is in the mountains above Santa Cruz) destroyed the historic downtown - but has long since been revived and rebuilt into a hipster, college kids, yuppy, homeless haven.

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Old 03-12-2016, 02:04 PM
 
Location: Oroville, California
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Fresno - split personality with conservative Okie-fried white folks on the north side and Mexicans and Hmong in the south (with a healthy dose of African-Americans spread out everywhere but Clovis). Friendly people. Almost Southern-like in their love of the Fresno State Bulldogs and the Clovis Rodeo. Comfortable on the north side, poor on the south. Spread out with low slung buildings, ranch style houses and wide, straight streets. Great "everyday" type shopping and surprisingly good and diverse restaurants. Doesn't altogether deserve the bum rap it gets from coastal folks.
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Old 03-12-2016, 05:17 PM
 
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Northern California= Intelligent, more open-minded, geography is less spread out.

Southern California= Ignorant, racist, closed-minded, materialistic, geography is too spread apart, and there's traffic everywhere.
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Old 03-12-2016, 06:44 PM
 
Location: Laguna Niguel, Orange County CA
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Northern California= Intelligent, more open-minded, geography is less spread out.

Southern California= Ignorant, racist, closed-minded, materialistic, geography is too spread apart, and there's traffic everywhere.
People without a job (and no prospects of finding one) who also lack an education (and likely lack a marketable skill of any kind), no doubt lash out and paint an entire region as negative.
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