As a native Californian, can you tell a lifelong Californian when out of state? (Stanford: fit in, to live)

[Fontucky]

So am I. Only reason I know about it is because I read C-D.

[sav858]

I remember when I first started college in San Diego people always talked about how us Northern Californians say "hella" and how Southern Californians always put "the" in front of freeways, ie "the 5". I still will occasionally get reminded about my use of "hella".

[MtnSurfer]

Originally Posted by Ludachris

Yeah, here in Denver, it's the complete opposite of California. It's brown in the winter and green in the summer, as there is virtually no moisture out here in the winter and it rains in the summer months.

Yeah, then if you are a CA transplant living in CO and happen to visit the PNW in the Springtime when CO is still brown, the mtn trails are covered in snow and the lakes still frozen your jaw drops to the floor. Everything is in technicolor green and you become shell shocked! So thats how Spring looks.



With regards to the 405 or the the 5 FWY I think that was a regional thing for me. Because when I moved to CO I simply said I'm taking I70 to Aspen. And let me tell you the 405 is a beast like no other which deserves the emphasis it gets.

Derek

[AKgirlinCA]

I too notice the usage of THE being placed in front of the fwy names in SoCal. Never noticed it in Texas. And where I grew up, we didn't have fwys.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by MtnSurfer

Yeah, then if you are a CA transplant living in CO and happen to visit the PNW in the Springtime when CO is still brown, the mtn trails are covered in snow and the lakes still frozen your jaw drops to the floor. Everything is in technicolor green and you become shell shocked! So thats how Spring looks.



With regards to the 405 or the the 5 FWY I think that was a regional thing for me. Because when I moved to CO I simply said I'm taking I70 to Aspen. And let me tell you the 405 is a beast like no other which deserves the emphasis it gets.

Derek

It is called the 405 because it takes four o five hours to get anywhere on it.

[Ludachris]

Originally Posted by AKgirlinCA

I too notice the usage of THE being placed in front of the fwy names in SoCal. Never noticed it in Texas. And where I grew up, we didn't have fwys.

It wasn't popular in NorCal either until recently - maybe more SoCalers moving north?

[Ludachris]

Originally Posted by sav858

I remember when I first started college in San Diego people always talked about how us Northern Californians say "hella" and how Southern Californians always put "the" in front of freeways, ie "the 5". I still will occasionally get reminded about my use of "hella".

That's hilarious! I remember that too.

[belmont22]

Originally Posted by majoun

Native Californians have been a minority in California ever since the Gold Rush.

And the number of native Californians whose parents weren't from somewhere else is even lower, especially in Southern California.

Actually something like 55% of Californians were born in state. I'm a fifth-gen San Francisco native too, and it's very easy to spend as much as a whole decade without leaving the state. California is more provincial than you'd think.

[bigdumbgod]

...or i'm gonna start antagonizing NorCal people with "The 280" and "The 880"

[mr bolo]

very hard to tell a native California, the whole state is a melting pot, there is no accent, the guys on the tv show American Pickers sound like a typical Californian to me and they come from Iowa

Ive met people that were born and raised in California that talk like they just came off the ranch in Texas or Wyoming and they have lived here their whole life