At 12:07 PM 5/3/2003 -0600, jestrek wrote:

>> North of San Francisco is a whole different California.

The same sort of dichotomy exists between south Florida and north Florida.
South Florida is the palm trees and pink flamingos and all that stuff which
is out of place when it shows up in North Florida.  South Florida is
Tourist Florida; North Florida is the real Florida.  

>> And LA, which presumes to "define" California, is a
world unto itself,
>> distinct even from places just the other side of the San Gabriels, etc.
>
>I would agree with that. My friends and I visited CA a lot when I lived in
>Vegas -- LA isn't like anywhere else in CA that we went to. Very different
>culture. I'd say the general air of being laid back is the same all through
>CA, but it's a different kind of laid back in LA compared to way up north or
>down south, and there are huge differences between way south and way north
>in the state.

As someone from Southern California, I can say that Southern California,
these days, is a nice place to be from.

FAR from!  

>there've been some recent news articles about LA or SF being long overdue
>for a *big* quake... not wishing for time to catch up with them by any
>means, but it's sort of a reminder that geologically they're always sitting
>ducks :/

Oh, yes.  As Elizabeth says, we'd rather be here in Florida, where we can
see our natural disasters coming!

Veloci--gives us time for a getaway--raptor



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