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I know it's a gross generalization, and each is such a large area...but I hear alot of bad things on this forum about people from each...SoCalifornians are rude, shallow, materlistic blah blah, and Bay Area people rude, snobbish, and dislike South California. South Californians, at least, don't seem to have a chip on their shoulder and don't pretend they are all enlightened like Bay Area people; these are the perceptions I get from what I hear. So who do you think is the nicer of these broad groups? And who is the nastier?
LOL...
what horrible stereotypes..I can say I've never met a person anywhere who pretended to be enlightened and never met a Bay Area native who had a chip on there shoulder because where they where born..in all honesty I think a lot has to do with where you go and how you present yourself to people. Otherwise it is a gross generalization there are extremely nice and extremely rude people in both places...and you can't judge SoCal from LA and you cant judge The Bay from SF.
Yeah, I can't vote either. Who's nicer? I can only respond as a tourist at this point.
And respect to the OP, I'll just say that I'm glad the two are different. I like to visit both. I'm going as a tourist, so I'm not so concerned about the people as the place. I figure I'm amongst a bunch of tourists anyway... and they're all dorks anyway.
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Socal's great, but there's just so many iconic sights in Nocal.
I really don't think one is better than the other overall but those stereotypes do exist for a reason and there are people that fit those descriptions in each area. It seems a lot of transplants are the ones that come off like stereotypes more often than not, probably b/c they were attracted to CA by them. Some also let living in CA go to their head thinking it makes them special or something and then they act like jerks. It's a mixed bag overall, I love and am also annoyed by the different types of people in each part of the state.
You must of went to the wrong places in both Socal and NorCal then.
I mean there are nice people. But it isn't super nice like the Midwest is nice. Like you don't say hi to random people on the street like you do in the midwest, or have conversations with the grocery store clerk. Those things do happen in CA, but it isn't the norm like it is in the midwest. I'm a native CA (lived in the Bay Area and LA area), who is residing in WI for school, so I can tell the differences.
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