East Coast-West Coast feud
Aug. 12th, 2009 10:36 amThis is hilariously true, but it's too bad he didn't get into the reasons why us East Coasters dislike long car rides. For starters, most urban-dwelling folk are pretty damned loyal to the cities in which they live. Bostoners prefer their town, New Yorkers don't believe other cities even exist. Why drive four hours away to some place that is clearly inferior in every way?
Not to mention, we have mass transit options and bad parking situations that make doing our own driving seem a fool's game. West Coasters never figured out that mass transit thing so good despite the fact that they built townships worth visiting as far apart and twice over again as any city in the NE corridor.
I find this amusing because I reverse discriminate against West Coasters for driving everywhere and it makes me a tad bitter that, as a result, everyone out there knows where every town ever is from Washington State to Baja. No, seriously. I was in a class with three Californians once, and just from listening to them, I ascertained that they none of them lived even within five hours of each other, and no major cities were mentioned. Yet each one knew exactly where the other two lived and off of what freeway. Shit, if I lived five hours away from someone in New York, they'd practically be in Canada. I get lost in my home town as is!
Not to mention, we have mass transit options and bad parking situations that make doing our own driving seem a fool's game. West Coasters never figured out that mass transit thing so good despite the fact that they built townships worth visiting as far apart and twice over again as any city in the NE corridor.
I find this amusing because I reverse discriminate against West Coasters for driving everywhere and it makes me a tad bitter that, as a result, everyone out there knows where every town ever is from Washington State to Baja. No, seriously. I was in a class with three Californians once, and just from listening to them, I ascertained that they none of them lived even within five hours of each other, and no major cities were mentioned. Yet each one knew exactly where the other two lived and off of what freeway. Shit, if I lived five hours away from someone in New York, they'd practically be in Canada. I get lost in my home town as is!