California

[Itchybottom]

East coast is too cold and people are always on the verge of hysteria (tightly wound). Cape Hatteras also has crappy waves, and it's lame having to surf in a wet suit year round. Didn't like Long Island either. Fuck the Atlantic! The salmon isn't even very good in comparison to the Pacific.

I lived in Orange County (Laguna Niguel, and then Newport Beach) for years and loved it there. The rain in SoCal is more hardcore than Washington by far and kind of took me by surprise my first few months. Up here in Washington, there's a bit of a drizzle (not unlike an ocean mist, or a grass sprinkler system) that lasts for a day to a week and we call it rain. In SoCal (or anywhere in the southwest really) it comes down like flood weather for an hour or two and lets up. I also miss the empty blue skies, as that's a rare sight here in western Washington, even on a perfectly sunny day you see quite a few clouds. The only real bummers about California, are the women; the daddy's girls that spend every moment of their day on beauty (fashion and make-up) are acceptable, but the amount of fat and/or ugly women that are "driven" chasing some career absolutely shadowed everything else I saw - and that's all I really saw at concerts, colleges and raves (From San Diego, all the way up to Palmdale) Cops around Newport Beach need a special award for being jackasses, too.