T: "1234 Living below a damn in an earthquake zone St."
*pause*
M: *rolls eyes* "And the city, state and zip, please?" (I have to say this more often than you'd believe)
T: "Yeah, San Iveneverheardofyourtownbefore 99023"
They skip saying California. I get calls from all 50 states (and Guam) and I never have anyone skip over the name of their state except people from California. Heck, even people from Honolulu say "Hawaii."
It's almost as though I am expected to know that they hail from California. I mean, I know that they do because I can see it on the screen- I'm just verifying information. Still, it seems fairly geo-centric that I am expected to know where you are from.
Hell, even the Latin-American immigrants who don't speak a lick of English at least say what state they are from. Silly people.
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Yeah, the one I really hate is "I'm from the bay area."
Boston bay?
Chesapeake?
Why are we supposed to know which bay they're talking about? Then they get really incensed when you ask them.
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I'm from the Bay area and yes, there's only one =P
If a zipcode starts with 90 - 96 it's in California. If they give you that much, you should just know, ya know?
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what about saying your from the North bay area ;O)
I guess im diffrent from everyone in California cause when im asked where im from I usualy say california. Posts: 513 | Registered: Oct 2001
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How about some people from California? I won't include California when I'm telling my address to someone local -- they generally know where Camarillo is -- but I certainly include it when talking on the phone.
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Folk from California are ... different. But you knew that, didn't you?
I'm from New Jersey, which we sometimes call "New Jersey", and sometimes call "Jersey", and I've even heard "Nueva Jersey (pronounced 'Yersay')", but never "EN JAY".
We don't like being asked what exit we're from, mostly because we really do know the answer, and hate that we do.
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On many answer-center systems, typing in the ZIP returns the city and state, although most ZIPs have more than one city in them. I've often been asked for the ZIP first, and then asked to specify the city.
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There seriously is only one Bay Area... and I'm glad to see it so well represented on this board.
There may be other bays in the United States (or so people tell me... ), but is there another area that calls itself "the Bay Area?"
What bugs me is when I say I'm from the Silicon Valley, and people ask "Where?" I'm not trying to be egocentric (or geocentric, I guess), but unless you had your head in a hole in the ground during the late 90's, how did you NOT hear of the Silicon Valley?
I've had to settle for saying "an hour south of San Francisco."
Does anyone else from highly-congested areas give distances in time? I always do that and never noticed it until I lived in Germany and the family I was with made fun of me for it.
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In New Jersey, we always give distances in time rather than miles.
Question: How far is that from here? Answer: Oh, at rush hour, it is a good 45 minutes, but otherwise you can make it in under 30.
This is definitely more useful than knowing how many miles away it is.
Have you noticed that when men give directions, they mention distance and direction ("Head East for three and a half miles...") while women mention landmarks (You turn left at the park, then keep going until you see the elementary school with the tire swings in the playground. There is an antique store on the opposite corner)?
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Theres absolutely nothing wrong with "cali" .. you would say it too if Your state name was friggin long
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I'll type it, because my fingers are lazy. I always say "California," though... I think it's a rather pretty name.
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Oooh, lots of broad generalizations about my state! Yippee!
If asked my address, I state street address, city, state, and zip. Even though I am not aware of many other cities called Los Angeles.
Anyone who says "Cali" should be taken out and shot.
Anyone who cannot spell "Angelenos" should be drawn and quartered.
Anyone who lives in the so-called Garden State, home of more factories per capita than any other state, has a lot of nerve dissing California.
There are many bays. Each has an adjacent area.
Not only do I give distances in units of time, I often do not know the actual distance involved without looking it up. Thus, I work 15-20 minutes away from where I live (and it's somewhere in the general neighborhood of 4 miles away, I think).
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I think EVERYONE should say the name of that state like your governator does.
Cause that would definitely make me laugh.
Meanwhile, I DO say I'm from Atlanta (not tons of those around), but in a situation like PC described, where I'm saying my whole address, I definitely include the state name.
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quote:Originally posted by rivka: Anyone who lives in the so-called Garden State, home of more factories per capita than any other state, has a lot of nerve dissing California.
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As one who used to live in Atlanta, it is "Atlanta", please, NOT "Hotlanta". 'Cause that's just dumb.
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Since this thread is probably attracting anyone with an interest in California:
How many people think that California should be broken up into two states? I would choose not to, simply because it would decrease our economic and political power as a state (and more to the point, who would get Monterey?), but I've heard a number of people suggest it (half in jest, I think).
SoCal and NorCal are two very different places, with different outlooks... (For instance, people in NorCal do not need to know how to spell "Angelenos," Rivka. )
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quote:On many answer-center systems, typing in the ZIP returns the city and state, although most ZIPs have more than one city in them. I've often been asked for the ZIP first, and then asked to specify the city.
Speaking of this, what really annoys me is when they use such a system, incorrectly tell me I live in Kissimmee, and their system won't accept a correction. This happens with HP, for one.
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Okay, it's worth pointing out that while California and New Jersey have this bizarre and completely pointless rivalry going on, all the GOOD states are in the middle. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Oh Tom, do you mean all that other stuff besides the sea to shining sea bit? Purple mountains, amber waves, spacious skies, fruited plains, roaming buffalo, deer playing with antelopes, little houses, prairies, and all that?
I've seen it. It was big. A lot of it was flat. Except for the bumpy parts. I remember that there was a whole lot of corn. Or soybeans. Or something.
The middle part. I think that's where we keep the Republicans.
But the Blue States is where it is happening, baby!
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quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: I'm from New Jersey, which we sometimes call "New Jersey", and sometimes call "Jersey", and I've even heard "Nueva Jersey (pronounced 'Yersay')", but never "EN JAY".
We don't like being asked what exit we're from, mostly because we really do know the answer, and hate that we do.
Hey hey, not all people in NJ live off of an exit. The closest four lane highway to me is in New York state.
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quote: I live in a Blue State in the middle. Best of both worlds, really.
Hey, me too. And on top of that, I'm on a college campus. Not sure how much more of a blue area you can get.
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This is pretty much the best place to live just so ya' know,so we take a few liberties with how we talk about it...not really a big deal Posts: 137 | Registered: Apr 2005
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I live on the island. The island. If you don't know what island that refers to, you obviously haven't lived in or near New York.
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I lived in Southern California for the first 30 years of my life. I now live in Chicagoland! I had the California attitude that it was the best place in the Union and assumed that the whole world wanted to live there. I believed that every place else in the US (except NYC) was a hick town and full of wannabes.
I now know better. I'll never move back to So. Cal.
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Hey, I never said that flat=good. I said that the Midwest had the best states in the Union. That they're so good despite being mostly flat is a testament to how much most of the other states suck.
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