Disagree all you'd like, make whatever arguments you want, believe what you want to believe but that doesn't change the facts
Haha weed delivery faster than a pizza
Haha spineless liberals pretending they're virtuous
I lovehate this state
If it wasn't for the natural beauty and some really cool comrades, the overwhelming smugness would push me away faster than gentrification pushed me out of my hometown
or just live in Washington where there is in fact, water
do not ask us about any major impending earthquakes or volcanic eruptions
Blizzards aren't a serious natural disaster. It's ice storms you should have mentioned, but didn't.
Ice vs snow. Ice will knock out power, can freeze doors shut, and can collapse trees, causing all sorts of havoc.
Snow doesn't tend to do this.
So true. I'd much rather be in Galway than Dublin. The Atlantic coast is much more beautiful
i have met californians, many of them, so i'm inclined to disagree
But have you met new yorkers? New Jerseyens idk wtf they call em? Italian americans?
I’ll take my walkable east coast cities over your glorified suburbs, thanks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
i like the west coast but the more i grow up i realize how weird it is that every west coaster i meet seems very obsessed with a region/talks endlessly about it's beauty and relative to the east coast, it's chill culture when all of my black family and black neighbors has been pushed out of the west coast(i am from SF originally, have family from the bay, also have family in vegas) to the point that theres a scary low number of black people left, the only black people i see in SF are drugged out on the streets and/or homeless and its always been weird and depressing to witness when the California Tech Gentrified Everything Is Sunny and Happy Here culture thing is brought up that even west coast natives still peddle
and when you think about the PNW, where there seems to be a weird whites only vibe there, it makes the lamenting over the chill west coast pretty sus to me and has always triggered in me an inkling that hey maybe all of these people like the west coast because black people (and other poc depending on the state) and poor ppl have been able to be so successfully removed from this region so that white rich people/ rich tech poc can have their ideal automated shangrila (but i know that thats just my paranoid take)
it doesnt help that tech has caused a lot of the west coast culture to become really infantalizing and catering of tech people rather than being a real, authentic place---obviously authentic real places still exist but a lot of things seems to be tech washed and its weird
gentrification obviously happens in the east coast but at least there isnt the google logo over your childhood home to add insult to injury where all the google kids with their google badges pile onto the google bus like adult children(yes i was born in the mission why do you ask :( )
I'm gonna be honest idk much about california culture or anything and I'm from an agricultural area in the pnw not tech so i don't really see that part here but I get what you're saying from what I've seen in Seattle and Portland when I visit family and the changes over the years
The west coast is a cesspool and bullshit, but if you can look past it and appreciate what brought the bullshit then it's pretty great
I'm gonna be honest the only reason I like the west coast better is bc of the nature
the mothafuckin' west coast is the mothafuckin' best coast. 👐
This is true. A majority of us are insufferable tbh.
Wall Street, DC, No nature left, Brooklyn podcasters, hurricanes, small mountains, humidity, the founding of the United States, the hellish sprawl known as Northeast megalopolis, also it's dumb to have a bunch of states for no reason
amber, and I don't like being reminded of the existence of gabagools
small mountains
Laughs in Sierra Nevada
Edit: can't wait to backpack the JMT in 2021 :party-blob:
Silicon Valley, Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, Amazon, Google, Lockheed, smog, wildfires, Whites only state (Oregon), white supremacist colonies in western Washington/Idaho, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Diane Feinstein, Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and the anti-Christ himself:
Ronald Wilson Reagan
I mean we could both keep doing this forever but you guys still are the ones with the head of the greater Satan itself, DC
The West Coast is where we sent all the people too anti-social and bloodthirsty to survive in normal America :v:
Plus DC is easily the worst part of the east coast.
at this point, after the fires the east coast might have more nature left
