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We're the number 1 place in America technology fashion films cars entertainment food
All the.big companies like google.YouTube twitter Facebook instagram all came from California.brands like McDonalds and in n out burger taco bell so yeah i agree California is pretty much dominate compared to the rest of the u.s
You never want to put any type of thread on this site that's about California. People will just bash it. The OP was just voicing how he felt. And for a good part, it's true. Everybody outside of CA just dismiss anything positive about it and rant on about how much they hate Hollywood. Well, check this out: I hate narrowminded stereotyping people who rant angrily about things they don't know too much about. This whole "lets gang up on California and smugly condescend to Californians because they are cool and trendy because it's cool and trendy for us to do so despite us being too dense to realize the irony" thing is annoying and IMO kinda what's wrong with this country
California HAS in fact brought a lot of innovation and many MANY technological, areospace and medical improvements to the US and the World that it does deserve some credit. If some guy from a middle of nowhere state that is basically useless wants to rant and throw around the Imigration/overcrowded/bankrupt card go right ahead. It's okay, California helped invent the Internet for ALL OF US You're welcome World.
The United States Bureau of Reclamation applied to the California State Water Resources Control Board for a permit for much water that would be impounded by the New Melons Dam, a unit of the California Central Valley Project.
When you consider that the USA as a whole is in retrograde motion, it is not a positive endorsement to say one state is "10 years ahead" of the rest, although it may very well be true.
The rest of the nation had better hope and pray that in 10 years that they will not be just like California. There have been dozens of threads, with thousands of posts and millions of words, on CD on the topic of California's ills and about how dysfunctional and headed for disaster it is. Heaven help the USA if the rest of it becomes like California.
Wellll...I think California does lead the nation in a lot of ways - especially in pop culture, lifestyle, and emerging technology.
BUT the bad does come with the good: I would call myself a progressive, so the environmental movement and gay rights prominence of California (it should be noted that neither of those things first occurred in California) is something that I consider good, and I note that those things do infiltrate the rest of the US, which is a nation of continually evolving cultural values as we turn into a mature nation. Nonetheless, California is also the birthplace of some hideous urban sprawl, some terrible urban street gangs, some atrocious smog and pollution problems, some horrific traffic.
So - while California has laid a lot of innovative concepts upon the rest of the country, it has laid out an equal quantity of the very kinds of things everyone from environmentalists to small-town preservationists to urban planners recoil at.
Wellll...I think California does lead the nation in a lot of ways - especially in pop culture, lifestyle, and emerging technology.
BUT the bad does come with the good: I would call myself a progressive, so the environmental movement and gay rights prominence of California (it should be noted that neither of those things first occurred in California) is something that I consider good, and I note that those things do infiltrate the rest of the US, which is a nation of continually evolving cultural values as we turn into a mature nation. Nonetheless, California is also the birthplace of some hideous urban sprawl, some terrible urban street gangs, some atrocious smog and pollution problems, some horrific traffic.
So - while California has laid a lot of innovative concepts upon the rest of the country, it has laid out an equal quantity of the very kinds of things everyone from environmentalists to small-town preservationists to urban planners recoil at.
People in NYC, DC, Philly, Boston, Miami, Bmore would disagree.
People in NYC, DC, Philly, Boston, Miami, Bmore would disagree.
Is there ANYTHING that they would AGREE with? Think about that for a second, no way people from NYC, DC, Philly, Boston, Miami (why the f**k is Miami on here?) and Bmore EVER give any sort of credit toward anything west of the Mississippi. Hell, a California based firm could invent time travel and instead of saying: "oh wow that's so cool" people from those Northeastern cities will just scoff at it and act unimpressed. Good job guys, way to be apart of the team
People in NYC, DC, Philly, Boston, Miami, Bmore would disagree.
I don't think the world is going to stand still because of that.
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