bschlessel

I too will be in PDX that weekend. I would be down to meet up with fellow tiger fans. Everything I've read has said EAT is the place tiger fans go. That's where I will be unless something else is suggested/decided through this thread.

Everyone always says that it costs more to live here. The thing that most people don't realize is that you also make more money here than you would elsewhere. This may not be true for all occupations but for most it is true.

The taxes are high. Trust me I just got my w-2 and I got bent over on taxes. It's worth paying the higher taxes when you realize how amazingly beautiful the Bay Area is. In any given day I can go to the coast, Tahoe, Yosemite, and one of the greatest cities in the world. I'll pay a higher tax to live in an area where people all over the world save up to spend a week.

Thank you. That mindset is all I'm trying to understand.

We need to get this thread back to the first page!

Only legitimate post in this thread.

Reasonable response.

So the reason for the hate is that people in California think they are smarter than people in the south?

It's just a numbers game. A lot more people in California than Louisiana.

I agree with you. When I first moved out here I thought Californians were terrible. I was selling wine when I first moved out here. Out of fear for people thinking I didn't know what I was talking about I wouldn't tell people where I was from. I would say "I'm from the south." People that were from California (mainly SoCal) would say, "oh so your from like la Orange County?"

This drove me up a fricking wall. Yes there are those people here. There are also a lot of great people as well. The catch is that it takes longer to find the good people

What I said is true. I agree that there are insufferable people in California. My point is that there are insufferable people in Louisiana as well. Not liking a certain "style" of person is not grounds for passing judgement on an entire state.