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The only thing that's attractive about the west coast is the weather and scenery. The East Coast has more culture, character(and characters!), and history. People from the West Coast generally are rather bland in comparison to people on the East Coast.
Let's see California has faced the most severe problems imaginable everything from almost complete economic collapse,natural disasters, to run away illegal immigration,noticable infrastucture decay..yet all the while still maintains the highest number of high dollar properties and the most billionaires. That's just sex appeal.I would love to see any other state still even remain on it's knees after such damning issues....Proof that beauty as vapid as it may be still holds the upper hand.
California has by far the largest population in the country. It's a huge state landwise and something would be seriously wrong if it didn't have all that (in sheer numbers that is)
Most of the nations wealth and power is on the East Coast. CA just barely has more billionaires and GDP than the much smaller NYC metro for goodness sakes. Probably not anymore considering how much worse the West's economy has been these past few years. Not to mention we have the nations capital and South FL.
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Look, everyone knows the East Coast would win IN A WAR. It's a much larger economy, population center, power center, etc. But for a lot of people that doesn't factor into where they want to live.
In other words, just because the East Coast's DICK IS BIGGER doesn't mean everyone wants to suck it.
In terms of states, nothing can compare to California. However, I like to keep the tradition of comparing cities on CD, so it's essentially America's first city, America's best city, and the capital versus the media monopoly that is California, plus the nice technologies. The problem with this comparison is that, while scenic, the west coast isn't as developed as the east coast. California can beat the best, but if you put it against a whole coast . . . it just can't compare.
West coast, easily. There's a reason west coast cities are populated by transplants from the east. Most people in the west are from somewhere else - that makes for a much friendlier environment because very few people from the west have lived in the same city for generations and have less of a sense of entitlement. It is less crowded, the lifestyle is so much better (open spaces), and then there's the whole scenic beauty/lack of humidity factor as well.
The general trend over the last half century is East -> West. No denying that.
West coast, easily. There's a reason west coast cities are populated by transplants from the east. Most people in the west are from somewhere else - that makes for a much friendlier environment because very few people from the west have lived in the same city for generations and have less of a sense of entitlement. It is less crowded, the lifestyle is so much better (open spaces), and then there's the whole scenic beauty/lack of humidity factor as well.
The general trend over the last half century is East -> West. No denying that.
Fair enough. One day that will allow the west coast to rival the east coast legitimately. The east will always be more important due to the capital, but as of now it still has the west beat in most categories. Hopefully, in the future, that line will blur; I enjoy a good competition.
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The West Coast is so weird and boring.
In high school we went camping and hiking in Northern California and it was one of the most traumatizing things I've done in my life. I'll die happy if I never see the "scenic wilderness" ever again.
The people are "different" and don't dress well and lack proper east coast (NE/NE) social ettiquite, culture, tradition. Also, as someone who likes to travel, I find it too isolated. Something about that region just feels so lonely.. I wasn't suprised to read that the West had the highest suicide rate in the US.
No thank you.
Don't go there. I live on the east coast and have known a person who has committed suicide in these parts which was personally sad and tragic and pretty much makes numbers and statistics of a state by state ratio pretty irrelevant when looking at the big picture.
Also a wilderness experience as traumatizing with no story or substance to back it up sounds more like mellow drama as if you had seen somebody get mauled by Sasquatch himself. Nothing more than a silly phobia. Not to mention Florida has its share of scary critters.
Last edited by Champ le monstre du lac; 02-07-2011 at 09:32 PM..
In high school we went camping and hiking in Northern California and it was one of the most traumatizing things I've done in my life. I'll die happy if I never see the "scenic wilderness" ever again.
The people are "different" and don't dress well and lack proper east coast (NE/NE) social ettiquite, culture, tradition. Also, as someone who likes to travel, I find it too isolated. Something about that region just feels so lonely.. I wasn't suprised to read that the West had the highest suicide rate in the US.
No thank you.
LOL. And the award for worst story of all-time goes to...
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