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I know, my post wasn't relevant to that issue, it was meant as [mostly] a joke.
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I didn't include Omaha b/c I was doing mountain and west coast states, but when you brought up humidity I pointed out that Omaha is humid. So is KC. Just for that:
I didn't think they counted as west, but I don't really know.
Denver's snow is pretty dry, except in the spring. It's not as windy as Illinois.
This is absolutely hilarious. You have, in the last few posts, used Denver and Nebraska to provide evidence for weather on the West Coast. Who knew that the West Coast extended to the middle of the continent?
If Denver and Nebraska are on/near the Pacific Ocean, then I guess New Orleans and Kansas City are on/near the Atlantic Ocean. The "Northeast" might as well be Omaha using that logic.
This is absolutely hilarious. You have, in the last few posts, used Denver and Nebraska to provide evidence for weather on the West Coast. Who knew that the West Coast extended to the middle of the continent?
You're confused. The thread is about the entire western US, not just the West Coast. All the previous posts I saw in a quick skim discussed the west not the west coast.
I haven't read this thread, but based on the intial question, the obvious things the Northeast has that the West lacks (at least on a relative basis) are as follows-
1. World-class urbanity, transit and high culture
2. Greater history
3. Seasons
4. Huge depth and breadth of higher education
5. Vast amounts of fresh water
The Bay Area is pretty urban and has great public transit... idk what "high culture" means but Hollywood is in the west which is one of the most well known and successful aspects of American culture. of course there are seasons out west. Education? there is California-Berkley, Sanford, UCLA and Pomona College... and plenty of fresh water.
The Eastern cities have more history than Western cities, just like European cities have more history than American cities. However, the regions as a whole have no more or less history than the other.
The Bay Area is pretty urban and has great public transit... idk what "high culture" means but Hollywood is in the west which is one of the most well known and successful aspects of American culture. of course there are seasons out west. Education? there is California-Berkley, Sanford, UCLA and Pomona College... and plenty of fresh water.
The poster is simply saying that there are a lot more of all those things on a relative basis in the northeast, which I agree with.
It's the same as saying that there is a lot more natural and scenic diversity on a relative basis in the western U.S.
"I am from California (Oregon, Washington, Colorado), the end all and be all of everything good and beautiful. My view is fixed and I am neither cabable of nor desiring to change my immutable opinion. Yet, I want you to engage in the folly of trying to convince my deaf ears. Dance for me, fool, dance!"
That is the essence of a lot of conversation starters I have experienced with Californians (etc.). I used to actually fall for it. Now I just reply, "Nothing. There is nothing good about anything, anywhere outside California (etc.)."
There are New Yorkers (city) and Texans with the same anti-social personality disorder, too.
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