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Old 09-17-2013, 11:20 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles/Massachusetts
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I have a funny but very realistic question; what are my chances of getting windows etc smashed if I have CA plates?? I am being serious.....people do not like people from CA...( I dont either), but I am driving this relatively old car back there......before getting my BMW (kidding),,,,,want to almost immediately get MA plates as not to be seen as "person from CA"....
I will park car in uncle's DW,,,,,but ya never know and he lives in nice community. Am I being ridiculous,,,,I lived in some rather tough type towns in MA in past, but now will feel like stranger again...lol
I am sure it depends on the town.....

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Old 09-18-2013, 07:58 AM
 
Location: Central Mass
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The thing is, most people won't realize it, if you've got the CA white plate.

CA white plates and new MA plates are almost identical except the colours are reversed. Same fonts and spacing. MA has blue letters and red numbers. California has red letters and blue numbers. For the 6 months I still had CA plates on my car, most people didn't even notice. Once a kid said that car is from California and the mom said no it isn't. She had to take a triple take to finally realize that the plates were actually CA not MA.

No problems in Worcester, surrounding communities, Natick/Framingham, or Lowell. Or parking in the Riverside lot.
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Old 09-18-2013, 08:52 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Yes your being ridiculous to worry someone will smash your windows just because you have California plates on your car.
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Old 09-18-2013, 09:14 AM
 
Location: New York City/San Diego, CA
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Seriously ridiculous. I drive up to Gloucester all the time from NYC with New York plates and New York sports teams stickers. Never, ever had a problem and park on the street all the time.
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Old 09-18-2013, 11:01 AM
 
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I have a funny but very realistic question; what are my chances of getting windows etc smashed if I have CA plates?? I am being serious.....people do not like people from CA...( I dont either), but I am driving this relatively old car back there......before getting my BMW (kidding),,,,,want to almost immediately get MA plates as not to be seen as "person from CA"....
I will park car in uncle's DW,,,,,but ya never know and he lives in nice community. Am I being ridiculous,,,,I lived in some rather tough type towns in MA in past, but now will feel like stranger again...lol
I am sure it depends on the town.....

Thanks
I think you're being a bit much when you say people here do not like people from California. Not to mention that people would go around smashing windows of those from California.
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Old 09-18-2013, 11:07 AM
 
Location: 42°22'55.2"N 71°24'46.8"W
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I've never heard of anyone not liking people from California. It's mostly New York and New Jersey...
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Old 09-18-2013, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Berkeley Neighborhood, Denver, CO USA
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Default CA plates?

Everyone loves Canadians.
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Old 09-18-2013, 11:33 AM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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I've never heard of anyone not liking people from California. It's mostly New York and New Jersey...

Lakers fans, yeah, but its a non issue.
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Old 09-18-2013, 12:10 PM
 
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yeah i think you're being ridiculous as well. is this how Californians treat Bostonians in CA or something? bc i have never heard of that happening here.
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Old 09-18-2013, 12:31 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles/Massachusetts
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Okay.......sometimes you do have problems with out of state plates......I had some people in Maine...be very nasty and I attribute it to having MA plates, everyone has different experiences. There are so many people in CA that no one would notice where your plates are from.....and I did see a lot of cars vandalized in certain neighborhoods back there....in the 80s though.
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