You know you’re a true southern californian if (Los Angeles: high school, area code)

[denverian]

Originally Posted by RaymondChandlerLives

Every Angeleno knows where you won't get a lemon.

lol! That's where I'm from. I'm pretty sure they wrote that jingle before I was born.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by BarcelonaFan

Real SoCal dude: what freeway did use to get to LA from TX?

Me: I used I-10.

Real SoCal dude: the wha...? Oh the 10.

Me: yeah dude but the rest of the country calls it Interstate 10 aka I-10

Or I've experienced the reverse... some yahoo at a gas station came up to me and said, "Can you tell me how to get to I-405?" It took me a few seconds to figure out what he was talking about.

There are so many Californians here in Denver that it's understood that those of us who call the freeways "The 25, the 70, the 225..." etc., are from California. I just can't change my ways when I travel. Or when people in other parts of the country call freeways "highways/interstates/expressways"... it just sounds so weird to me.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by David Aguilar

Good one.



Yes! By far.



This rings true in the IE as well, everybody to the west is a snobby a-hole, and everyone in the High Desert is a meth-addicted hillbilly.

See.. that's the genius behind the code. No matter where you live, you think you're better than other people lol!

I had some dude at work (in Irvine) ask me how I could stand living so far inland where there's no beach and it's so hot. (he shared an apt. on Balboa with 5 other people). Like he just couldn't imagine the misery my life must be, living 7 miles from the beach lol! I told him I could ride my bike to Huntington Beach along the Santa Ana river and he still thought I was some inland idiot.

[denverian]

I thought of another one...

The smell of jasmine, salty air and smog together makes you feel at home.

[Count David]

Originally Posted by denverian

There are so many Californians here in Denver that it's understood that those of us who call the freeways "The 25, the 70, the 225..." etc., are from California. I just can't change my ways when I travel. Or when people in other parts of the country call freeways "highways/interstates/expressways"... it just sounds so weird to me.

I must be some sort of chameleon, because I dropped "the" and "freeway".

Originally Posted by denverian

See.. that's the genius behind the code. No matter where you live, you think you're better than other people lol!

I had some dude at work (in Irvine) ask me how I could stand living so far inland where there's no beach and it's so hot. (he shared an apt. on Balboa with 5 other people). Like he just couldn't imagine the misery my life must be, living 7 miles from the beach lol! I told him I could ride my bike to Huntington Beach along the Santa Ana river and he still thought I was some inland idiot.

For shame. Us Riverrats look at Orangers with blind hatred and envy, and think Balboans are close to deities...

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by denverian

lol! That's where I'm from. I'm pretty sure they wrote that jingle before I was born.

"We will beat anybody's price or your mattress is FREEEEEEE!!!"

"You are killing me, Larry!"

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by denverian

Or I've experienced the reverse... some yahoo at a gas station came up to me and said, "Can you tell me how to get to I-405?" It took me a few seconds to figure out what he was talking about.

There are so many Californians here in Denver that it's understood that those of us who call the freeways "The 25, the 70, the 225..." etc., are from California. I just can't change my ways when I travel. Or when people in other parts of the country call freeways "highways/interstates/expressways"... it just sounds so weird to me.

There is a 405 freeway in Seattle(it bypasses I-5 along the east side of Lake Washington).

Washingtonians call it "405" or "I-405".

Whenever I visit Seattle, I mark myself as being a southern Californian, because I say that I am taking the 405 to the 520 to the 5 to the 512 (Bothell to Puyallup(South Hill).

Alternatively, I could take the 405 to the 167 and get off on Meridian(and sit in traffic for an hour).

[CaliDude1]

You know you are a real Southern California if...

You can remember when we didn't have all of these unnecessary area codes. It was basically 213, 818, and 714. And that covered just about all of L.A. County, Orange County, and the Inland Empire.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by RaymondChandlerLives

You remember what you were doing during the Northridge quake (sleeping)

I was "sleepless in Seattle".

I have these premonitions, and tend to wake up when major events occur.

Similarly, I woke up 7 minutes before my niece was born.

She is getting her driver's license this year.

I feel old.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by CaliDude1

You know you are a real Southern California if...

You can remember when we didn't have all of these unnecessary area codes. It was basically 213, 818, and 714. And that covered just about all of L.A. County, Orange County, and the Inland Empire.

I think you meant 805, 213, and 714. 818 was split from 213 in the late 70s or early 80s or something like that.