This is so wrong it's ridiculous

[sharan]

You Belong in San Francisco

You crave an eclectic, urban environment. You're half California, half NYC. You're open minded, tolerant, and secretly think you're the best. People may dismiss you as a hippie, but you're also progressive, interesting, and rich!

Where Does Your Inner Californian Belong?

Did I ever mention how much I HATE San Francisco/the Bay Area? I belong right here in Los Angeles. Some day I might write up a rant on why people in the Bay Area are incredibly rude (a few friends up there excepted). The whole attitude up there can be be defined by one thing that was actually said to me: "Oh, you're from L.A.? I'm SORRY." in a really insulting tone. It really feels like they look down on anyone that's not them (Los Angeles especially, but not exclusively). Personally I've found people in L.A. to be MUCH friendlier! I'm not saying everyone up there is like that, but it's definitely the prevailing attitude.

The Bay Area is a nice place to visit for cons and things like that, but hell would have to literally freeze over for me to even consider living there again.

About the only true thing about this is the half NYC part, being an ex-NYer.:) The quiz was pretty flawed, though. How could I choose between 5 different bands when I'd only ever heard anything by 1 of them and didn't even like that one. Some of us gave up on the radio back in 1991-92 and never looked back.;)

Comments

[danielmedic.livejournal.com]

The "I'm sorry" line -- sometimes joking, sometimes not -- seems to come out with a whole bunch of regional prejudices. (And trust me, Minnesota gets it as bad as any place in the country. Yah, sher, ya know, it's all lutefisk and ice fishing up here. Minneapolis is exactly like Lake Wobegon. Exactly. Uh-huh.) Even when it's a joke, it's a damned rude one; when it's not, it's vicious. I'd have been tempted to tell the SFan in question to step off before you went and got all South Central on his ass, but I suppose that wouldn't really have helped.

[sharan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that type of attitude does seem to pop up everywhere. I'm not surprised it happens there! I know in NY people get that way about New Jersey (I sometimes think of it as an "unwanted suburb of NYC"), but I have friends there and some of my favorite musicians are from there (Symphony X and Joe Lynn Turner).

It is very rude. I've heard similar things from other people up there too, and my roommate lived in Santa Cruz while I was in Berkeley and he ran into the same attitude while he was there and it annoyed him too. I don't think I've ever heard anyone here in L.A. say anything like that, so I think it's a lot more common up there. I guess there's not much you can say that can stop them, though!

L.A. has it's annoyances (like the not being able to go anywhere without people with cell phones glued to their ears, especially while driving, oblivious to everything around them), but at least they're not quite as annoying, and I manage to avoid most of the people that give the area a bad name:).