It's not Cali (San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento: neighborhoods, living in, shop)

[ToeWhite]

I'm a 35-yr-old singer/songwriter/actor/writer/visual artist/all-of-the-above-creative-freak from CT toying with the idea of moving to a "real city". NYC or LA?

Would anyone who's lived in NYC and LA (or anywhere nearby those two) like to compare the two? Are people more friendly in LA or NYC?

Any creative types who know LA or anywhere in CA have opinions about life as a creative type out there?

[Dennis P]

Originally Posted by IV_XI_XI

So glad this topic was brought up. I HATE when people say Cali. Usually it's friends from the midwest or back east that say it, thinking they're down with the local slang.

I don't particularly care for that myself. To me, it has negative connotations of Cali, Colombia, and all that implies.

You can also tell if someone you're speaking with isn't from the local area by the way he/she pronounces place names. A good example is San Pedro. Here in SoCal, we pronounce it San PEE-dro. Someone not from the area would pronounce it San PAY-dro (which is actually the correct Spanish pronunciation).

A couple of other good examples are two Long Beach street names, Ximeno Avenue and Junipero Avenue. The correct Spanish pronunciations would be hee-MEH-noh and hoo-NEE-peh-roh, respectively. The locals (me included, since I've lived here all my adult life) would say egg-ZEH-meh-noh and wah-nah-PEH-roh.

When I visited Nebraska several years ago, they could tell I wasn't from there by the way I tried pronouncing Pottawatomie.

[Woof]

Originally Posted by ToeWhite

I'm a 35-yr-old singer/songwriter/actor/writer/visual artist/all-of-the-above-creative-freak from CT toying with the idea of moving to a "real city". NYC or LA?

Would anyone who's lived in NYC and LA (or anywhere nearby those two) like to compare the two? Are people more friendly in LA or NYC?

Any creative types who know LA or anywhere in CA have opinions about life as a creative type out there?

On the surface New Yorkers are much ruder and more obnoxious, and LA people more ostentatiously carefree, creative, or weird. But in fact the odds of meeting a backstabber or a true friend are about the same in either place. Both attract creative people.

[gizmo980]

Originally Posted by IV_XI_XI

But honestly, I could care less about what people call San Francisco though. If using "Frisco" pisses off the locals, I will start using it just to piŝŝ the snobby a--holes off.

And what exactly do you have against us?? Go ahead and call it "Frisco" if you'd like, but we have every right to roll our eyes at you for doing so... Doesn't make us that mad, just makes you look like a dumb tourist - LOL.

[shannon94]

Originally Posted by IV_XI_XI

So glad this topic was brought up. I HATE when people say Cali. Usually it's friends from the midwest or back east that say it, thinking they're down with the local slang.

Also when people San Diego by calling it Daygò. Daygò!? come on. San Diego is neither hardcore nor Italian, so stop calling it that.

But honestly, I could care less about what people call San Francisco though. If using "Frisco" pisses off the locals, I will start using it just to piŝŝ the snobby a--holes off.

Now ***** is one I've NEVER heard for San Diego.

[shannon94]

Originally Posted by Sassberto

That was sung by a guy from Queens!

"Cali" is so East Coast!

I'm well aware of the song....lol....I was kidding around with the old guy.

"I'm goin back to Cali.... Cali.... CAli...I'm goin' back to Cali....I don't think so!! lol I think I was in High School when that song came out. At any rate I like to say Cali on the forum as it is shorter than typing out California all the time.

Wow....can't believe how many repsonses there were to this.

[Slimhope]

Originally Posted by fastfilm

What's amusing is what abbreviations take hold and which do not. No one has ever called Santa Monica SanMo, although a leading Californian writer so insisted.

Not correct! My girlfriend and I call it SanMo almost to the exclusion of anything else. A simple Google search would indicate that numerous others do too. Admittedly, it isn't as common an expression as NoHo or WeHo, but it is out there and being used.

[NYSD1995]

Originally Posted by shannon94

Now ***** is one I've NEVER heard for San Diego.

It's very common. there is a biker gang called '**** Mob'

[iriegirl]

the City is NYC,
DUMBO, is "down under the manhattan bridge overpass",
'Town" is Philadelphia,
lots of easterners say Cali,
NoHo,BOHO, Soho, Nolita...

some New Jerseyans don't like it when people say 'Jersey'
who cares? more important things in the world,
IMHO.

[vfrpilot]

NoHo,BOHO, Soho, Nolita..

I lived in CA and heard, Cali, Kali, SoCal, and even California, but I've never heard those. I've heard surfer-types use the term 'Cali'. It sounds retarded.
I think I go eat a HoHo now and wash it down with a Yahoo