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I personally find the east coast and west coast very different. I think the east coast is more like the rust belt than it is like the west coast for sure. And the west coast is more like the mountain west than it is like the east coast. The great plains is the inbetween area that doesn't really feel like either coast. The southeast is also pretty much its own thing.
I personally find the east coast and west coast very different. I think the east coast is more like the rust belt than it is like the west coast for sure. And the west coast is more like the mountain west than it is like the east coast..
That’s what I see as well.
Having lived in both coasts for more than 50% of my entire life, and lived in Midwest for one year (but married to a man born and raised in the cutout state of Midwest and Northeast-Northeast Ohio, who through his career lived in NYC, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Los Angeles. ) we observed similarly.
I see both coasts drastically different, other than sharing the standard “coastal” city characteristics which apply worldwide.
I think the upper middle-class bourgeois areas in Northeast and West Coast metros are very, very similar and there's quite a few people in those areas who have spent extensive time on both coasts. There's a steady exchange of people between L.A. and the Bay Area on one side and D.C., NYC and Boston on the other side.
The differences are more pronounced when you get down to the areas and groups that have higher % of locally born and raised people. Californians born and raised there are very different to New Yorkers born and raised there.
I think the upper middle-class bourgeois areas in Northeast and West Coast metros are very, very similar and there's quite a few people in those areas who have spent extensive time on both coasts. There's a steady exchange of people between L.A. and the Bay Area on one side and D.C., NYC and Boston on the other side.
The differences are more pronounced when you get down to the areas and groups that have higher % of locally born and raised people. Californians born and raised there are very different to New Yorkers born and raised there.
Can you print this out on a t-shirt? Because I agree completely.
I may add there’s a steady exchange of people between L.A and NYC. Some of them even commute weekly.
As someone who's been to the east, west, and middle. There's things that the east and west have in common but not the middle, things that the east and middle have in common but not the west, and there's things that the west and middle have in common but not the east.
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