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Yeah, I'm originally from AZ- certainly not west coast and never met anyone growing up who called it west coast. Most Zonies were midwesterners originally anyways- some from Cali, TX, NM, and Canada, but most were from Mich, Ohio, Wisconsin, IL, etc.
Also, AZ is geographically not the west coast.
Vegas has more cultural ties to SoCal purely due to a lot of folks being originally from SoCal, so maybe that has something to do with it. AZ has more in common with NM than NV.
I was watching a video on YouTube where a guy says he's "from the West Coast....Arizona." It seemed odd to me, since I consider Arizona in the Southwest. Then I realized I subconsciously bundle Nevada with the West Coast even though it doesn't have a coastline either.
There's an argument to be made that both states are far more enmeshed with California than with New Mexico/Texas, but obviously neither have a Pacific coastline.
I have to admit that I do group them with the West Coast. California takes up pretty much all of the true West Coast, with Washington and Oregon making up the remainder, so I have to throw in a couple other states, lol. But something about the weather, PAC-12 affiliation (for Arizona) just mentally makes me group them with the west coast.
Both states have been feeling quite a lot of the coastal influx. I don't see an issue considering them "West Coast" the same vein as Vermont being "East Coast."
If you are applying your blanket statement to the entire world, you have no idea just how very wrong you are. One example has already been provided to you. I further suggest you take a look at Chile and Namibia, among other places.
Why not? If the ocean water is cold enough, there is very little cyclone activity, and there are mountain ranges blocking moisture, then it is entirely possible to have a desert right on the ocean. The Atacoma Desert in South America right off the Pacific is one of the driest deserts in the world.
If you are applying your blanket statement to the entire world, you have no idea just how very wrong you are. One example has already been provided to you. I further suggest you take a look at Chile and Namibia, among other places.
Not even that. It's like they haven't looked at a globe. The Sahara is one extremely obvious example, and for the record the Sahara is almost as large as the L48 if not basically equal, and is the entire north shore of Africa.
Has this person never heard of Dubai, with being in the news for a long time having been creating islands off it's own shoreline, and thought wow Dubai surely isn't on the coast... Dubai is an infamous desert city, one of many, and it's on the coast.
Australia also exists and is infamous for being a large desert island, with some very small slivers of non-desert.
Wind patterns and so forth has made almost every Southwest corner of every continent a desert. North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, all have deserts in their Southwest portions. Europe even has pseudo desert areas in Spain.
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