Surf City Baby
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Re: Re: Re: what's your opinion?
I don't know a scientific definition.
For a long time I felt completely out of place, and wholly misunderstood whenever I chanced to converse with a stranger.
Except on a job training visit to Reno, I had never been outside California. And, except for Reno (where there are bumper stickers that read Welcome to Nevada -- California's Designated Smoking Area) I had never seen so many smokers! First in NoVA for a few months, then in SoMD, I had to get used to being in a public places where people could smoke again. It took a whole year before I was no longer surprised at being asked "smoking or non-smoking?"
I am quite out of place in some of my political philosophies. For one example, I am baffled by the gun culture (and even more baffled by the rhetoric of the gun lobby. It's not too noticeable in So. Cali.). I have one bumper sticker on my car and it sticks out like a sore thumb as I tootle down Leonardtown or Route 6.
Politics in general seem to be more conservative, and although some may be thinking of Hollywood and saying to themselves, "no surprise there," it really is surprising. It's really only largely around L.A. that politics are liberal. Orange County, for example, is so politically conservative that its confines are routinely referred to as "behind the Orange Curtain." As for the rest of the state: remember, the Golden State gave the nation Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
In some ways, parents seem more permissive than my friends with children back home. In other ways, they're far more strict.
Attitudes are different here. People on the road are more aggressive and quicker to flip the bird at the slightest excuse. There seems to be more misogynism here -- from women as well as men. That really surprised me.
On the whole, though, I generally find that people are basically the same. Most just want to live their lives in peace and to allow others to do the same.
(Now if I could just get used to the unbelievably frantic pace in DC. My god, you'd think that no one in that city ever slowed down for anything! People, take your time... I'd be willing to bet the average blood pressure within the beltway is a third as high as that back home.)
I don't know a scientific definition.
For a long time I felt completely out of place, and wholly misunderstood whenever I chanced to converse with a stranger.
Except on a job training visit to Reno, I had never been outside California. And, except for Reno (where there are bumper stickers that read Welcome to Nevada -- California's Designated Smoking Area) I had never seen so many smokers! First in NoVA for a few months, then in SoMD, I had to get used to being in a public places where people could smoke again. It took a whole year before I was no longer surprised at being asked "smoking or non-smoking?"
I am quite out of place in some of my political philosophies. For one example, I am baffled by the gun culture (and even more baffled by the rhetoric of the gun lobby. It's not too noticeable in So. Cali.). I have one bumper sticker on my car and it sticks out like a sore thumb as I tootle down Leonardtown or Route 6.
Politics in general seem to be more conservative, and although some may be thinking of Hollywood and saying to themselves, "no surprise there," it really is surprising. It's really only largely around L.A. that politics are liberal. Orange County, for example, is so politically conservative that its confines are routinely referred to as "behind the Orange Curtain." As for the rest of the state: remember, the Golden State gave the nation Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
In some ways, parents seem more permissive than my friends with children back home. In other ways, they're far more strict.
Attitudes are different here. People on the road are more aggressive and quicker to flip the bird at the slightest excuse. There seems to be more misogynism here -- from women as well as men. That really surprised me.
On the whole, though, I generally find that people are basically the same. Most just want to live their lives in peace and to allow others to do the same.
(Now if I could just get used to the unbelievably frantic pace in DC. My god, you'd think that no one in that city ever slowed down for anything! People, take your time... I'd be willing to bet the average blood pressure within the beltway is a third as high as that back home.)
I know the word.... Ever struggled for the correct spelling of a word, but it just won't come to you? I was miserably off the mark, and I am royally embarrassed.
you are not prepared to make generalizations based on the relatively few you've met.
I attended Berkeley for undergrads in the 60's and I loved it out there. But I am certainly glad that I am back home.
It's good to laugh. Glad I could help make your day!
I wouldn't go out of my way for it. Some is better than others, Sharons husband (by far) makes the best stuffed ham in Southern MD. 