socal vs. norcal

better?

http://21grand.org/cali.png

Ned, you are from the Maryland/Missouri of California.

My dad more than me but I am a spiritual citizen of the place.

xp Hahaha

you're giving up ZZYZX Rd. to New Nevada? you fucking traitor

i would consider norcal to be san jose and points north. give or take a few miles.

hahahaha zzyzx road!

San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara are socal. Any diehard Northern Californian should know this.

Anyway the real battle is Contra Costa County vs. Inland Empire.

above SLO = norcal and below = socal

I can dig this. I need at least some more participation before I continue on to my next few points.

"i would consider norcal to be san jose and points north. give or take a few miles."

No way Santa Cruz is Socal.

Dude, New Nevada also gets most of the prisons, pollution, and meth labs.

fine, santa cruz and points north. it can be right on the border.

xp Not until incorporates Riverside it doesn't.

what we're all missing is the fact that norcal and socal are not just geographic definitions, but rather, horrible states of mind

you can be norcal anywhere, really

If you are stoned enough, sure.

Santa Cruz is more or less equal in terms of northness as San Jose now, as San Jose has laid claim to a lot of unincorporated area south of its former boundaries.

If you are stoned enough, sure.

I'm pretty sure you can then be NorCal and SoCal at the same time. Pretty sure.

step 1. buy 'norcal' logo for the window of your black pickup truck / rice rocket

The line has been blurred since we began to get more In-N-Outs in the Bay Area, I'll admit.

what is the Maryland/Missouri of California?

No way Monterey is So Cal!

I'm gonna claim Monterey for norcal too. The entire Monterey bay is norcal's.

wiki sez Teh Big Line

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Southern_California.png

Try the Big Line. You don't like the Big Line? Just try it. Just once.

We can argue over SLO but the high concentration of lesbians makes it inherently more norcalish.

What the hell is that blue thing there in the middle Riverside/Imperial? It looks like a deflated PacMan ghost.

i think san luis as a border sounds good. went to school there and this debate was fuckn omnipresent

I've driven across the big line and Tulare Co belongs in So Cal.

what is the Maryland/Missouri of California?

Carmel and other areas on the border of NorCal/SoCal...akin to border states around the 1860s.

surprised no one has mentioned hella btw

Is deflated Pac Man ghost the Salton Sea?

Missouri of CA = SLO
Iowa of CA = Sac
Texas of CA = Bakersfield
California of CA = LA
New York of CA = SF
Florida of CA = SD
Colorado of CA = Yosemite

the big line gives way too much real estate to "northern" california

Hella, as an expression is more Central Bay Area/Sacramento area. Never heard it growing up in the South Bay/Monterey area.

Does Oakland get to be Brooklyn or Baltimore?

If you live in Cali and don't know what the Salton Sea is, you're definitely norcal (although the reverse isn't true)

someone who knows LA super well should do the next level, an LA version of that. what is the california of LA?

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/8629/socal.png

I was gonna mention hella but thought it would be a bad idea

Berkeley is the Boston of CA - I have the same mixed feelings about both places.

xspot - one day, lib, one day

you have to wait for the Salton Sea fish to grow legs first.

Much less likely to get hit in the head with a beer bottle in Berkeley.

Kentucky of CA - Fresno

Berkely is to Boston
as
Oakland is to Southy

Carmel and other areas on the border of NorCal/SoCal...akin to border states around the 1860s.

We just sip wine and look a bit into the distance on the shore:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2383/2144424321_f33da65162.jpg

Much less likely to get hit in the head with a beer bottle in Oakland.

Much less likely to get hit in the head with a beer bottle in Oakland.

Than Southy? Yes.

Likelihood of running across the following groups in Boston vs. Berkeley is about the same:
neurotic middle aged women with cats
dumpy dude with dockers in therapy
gothy live action role playing game nerds
black people

someone who knows LA super well should do the next level, an LA version of that. what is the california of LA?

san pedro = bay area old-skool longshoreman culture
pierce college (in the SFV) = central valley big agriculture
hollywood = san francisco gays, junkies, macrobiotics
the southeast valley south of ventura blvd = irvine

I know quite a few people who got hit in the head with beer bottles in Oakland.