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LOL you're not the first to call me that, but too bad I am not him but by the sounds of it he must of been one cool dude if people keep thinking I'm him but no I actually live 7 mins from the dockweiler beach, and I hardly ever go down there and when I do it's usually not to jump in the water, btw how does it feel that SD is basically a suburb of LA?
Clearly because I'm not the first to notice the similarities. So you moved closer to the coast? Congrats. But once you mentioned PR and Miami that was a dead give away since that seems like the only place you've been besides SoCal. Keep denying it all you want but it's pretty obvious CalifornioSur. And once Sd becomes more polluted, gridlocked, crime infested, poorer, less educated, and more hated my the rest of America then maybe we can call it a suburb of LA. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
For someone as well traveled as yourself and that has lived in multiple places I'm surprised you really don't get that Northern Ca does not have a traditional beach scene, or at the very least can't admit it.
And I am surprised at how easily you dismiss the coastal beach towns in Northern California because they dont fit into your personal definition of what is and what is not a traditional beach scene. Very odd.
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You've been to SoCal, Hawaii, and the East Coast and you honestly thing NorCal compares to their beach scenes? Really?
What I find bizarre is that you group SoCal and the East Coast with HAWAII---as if they are even the same with respect to beaches...that is reaching a bit dontcha think?
Hawaii, you aint.
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I personally just don't see how that is possible. People touching their toes in the water or the few die hards that can actually handle anything more than waste deep doesn't change the fact that the water is way too cold, on top of being too dangerous, for most people to enjoy in Northern CA.
Go ahead and call it "oversensitive" but I and I think most people would agree I'm actually being realistic about it. There is a reason that few people live along the Northern Ca coast and would rather go to Lake Tahoe in the summer than a beach in NorCal. Go ahead and delude yourself into believing that NorCal had a "traditional" beach scene but it clearly doesn't. Maybe people in WA and OR can feel you but even then they can probably admit anywhere north of Santa Barbara isn't exactly ideal for swimming in and laying out on the beach for MOST people during summer. But if you never really experienced or lived the SoCal beach scene then I guess you just don't get it, and that's fine, but for some of us that have their is a noticeable difference.
More with this strange fixation on 'COLD'??? Like there are icebergs floating around the coastline. lolololol
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Yeah well Alaska has a "real" coast too so I guess by your standards it has "real" beach scene. lol. Yeah Stinson is a real beach town, a real cold one compared to SoCal and the the rest of the US. lol.
Strange indeed that you actually think NorCal has a traditional beach scene.....
Stinson is a real beach town and there are no ifs, ands or buts about it, hate to break it to you.
Oh, of course I didn't. I'm actually afraid of going anywhere where I can't find a Whole Foods. If I don't have my daily dose of quinoa, I start to wilt.
seriously the neighborhoods of NY where people are similar to SF are a minority and with the exception of white Manhattan (well most of it), Brownstone Brooklyn, and a few gentrified neighborhoods in Queens most people in NY have nothing in common with majority of SF. Any neighborhood of SF basically has an equivalent in NY. But most neighborhoods in NY have nothing in common with SF. Try to find any neiberhood in SF that is has any similarities to South Williamsburg, Brighton Beach, Dyker Heights, Brownsville, Grand Concourse ext.
I can guarantee you that most NYers if forced to live on the west coast would pick the LA metro which is the closest thing there that even remotely resembles NY in terms of diversity.
And I am surprised at how easily you dismiss the coastal beach towns in Northern California because they dont fit into your personal definition of what is and what is not a traditional beach scene. Very odd.
What I find bizarre is that you group SoCal and the East Coast with HAWAII---as if they are even the same with respect to beaches...that is reaching a bit dontcha think?
Hawaii, you aint.
More with this strange fixation on 'COLD'??? Like there are icebergs floating around the coastline. lolololol
Stinson is a real beach town and there are no ifs, ands or buts about it, hate to break it to you.
Excuse me while I scrape some dirt off my igloo.
You have a way different conception of what a beach scene is. I think he's talking about the kind where you can have scantily clad people laying about in the hot sun and cooling off in the ocean. This is something that can only marginally be done in the Bay Area (Santa Cruz is a bit different) because it generally doesn't get so hot on the coast for you need to cool down and the water you cool down is quite a bit colder than the areas we're talking about.
seriously the neighborhoods of NY where people are similar to SF are a minority and with the exception of white Manhattan (well most of it), Brownstone Brooklyn, and a few gentrified neighborhoods in Queens most people in NY have nothing in common with majority of SF. Any neighborhood of SF basically has an equivalent in NY. But most neighborhoods in NY have nothing in common with SF. Try to find any neiberhood in SF that is has any similarities to South Williamsburg, Brighton Beach, Dyker Heights, Brownsville, Grand Concourse ext.
Blah, blah, blah.
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I can guarantee you that most NYers if forced to live on the west coast would pick the LA metro which is the closest thing there that even remotely resembles NY in terms of diversity.
...and here, ladies and gentlemen, we have the Pollster-esque comment about how New Yorkers are some sort of mystical breed of superhumans who are impervious to moving to new places of their own volition as they already live in the undisputed most perfect place on earth, much in the same way that god had to knock a girl up to create an earthly manifestation of himself because he was so all-powerful he couldn't just zap himself into existence.
Diversity this, diversity that. Yes, SF is a slouch for diversity because we don't have any neighborhoods that have an even split of Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Barbadians, US Virgin Islandanians (or whatever they're called), Cubans, etc etc etc. *belch*
Yeah. There are absolutely no New Yorkers who have ever moved to SF - ever. *yawn*
You have a way different conception of what a beach scene is. I think he's talking about the kind where you can have scantily clad people laying about in the hot sun and cooling off in the ocean. This is something that can only marginally be done in the Bay Area (Santa Cruz is a bit different) because it generally doesn't get so hot on the coast for you need to cool down and the water you cool down is quite a bit colder than the areas we're talking about.
There is no 'HOT SUN' right on the SoCal coastline----the mediterranean climate which is shared by both NorCal and SoCal means that the coastline is not a humid mess like the East Coast, no its actually a bit cooler right along the pacific shore.
Im not a New Yorker but I'm sure New Yorkers might think SF is a cool city. SF is nothing like NYC so if a NYer goes to visit SF, they might get homesick. Philadelphia actually might be a NYers choice before The Bay. For Chicago, I really don't know. Here in Detroit, Chicago is mentioned a lot. People here also have negative views of SF which upset me a lot.
There is no 'HOT SUN' right on the SoCal coastline----the mediterranean climate which is shared by both NorCal and SoCal means that the coastline is not a humid mess like the East Coast, no its actually a bit cooler right along the pacific shore.
Yea, there is. The ambient temperature might not be very high, but in the sun you'll definitely feel it. Really, how often do you see people in just swimming trunks or a two-piece playing volleyball on the shores of the Bay Area?
...and here, ladies and gentlemen, we have the Pollster-esque comment about how New Yorkers are some sort of mystical breed of superhumans who are impervious to moving to new places of their own volition as they already live in the undisputed most perfect place on earth, much in the same way that god had to knock a girl up to create an earthly manifestation of himself because he was so all-powerful he couldn't just zap himself into existence.
Diversity this, diversity that. Yes, SF is a slouch for diversity because we don't have any neighborhoods that have an even split of Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Barbadians, US Virgin Islandanians (or whatever they're called), Cubans, etc etc etc. *belch*
Yeah. There are absolutely no New Yorkers who have ever moved to SF - ever. *yawn*
actually I was referring to your lack of Jewish jews, Italians, Irish, Polish, German ext. almost all the whites in SF are all cookie cuter images of one another.
There's no diversity because except for diffrent types of Asians there are no ethnic neighborhoods of any variety. (and most ethnics hate SF (for example the small Russian Jewish community know that SF looks down on them))
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but no I actually live 7 mins from the dockweiler beach, and I hardly ever go down there and when I do it's usually not to jump in the water, btw how does it feel that SD is basically a suburb of LA?
