kennfusion reminded me of this problem

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Pet peeve: people who think that “everyone in Southern California” or even more amusingly “Everyone in California” is superficial, obsessed with beauty and wealth, and in shallow pursuit of someone to use.

Ahem.

Dear The Everyone Else:

Southern California is a large place full of many types of people, including but not limited to: Longshoremen, 85-year-old Armenian Ladies, Russian Jewish Immigrants, aerospace engineers, respiratory therapists, Foursquare Gospel deacons, industrial laborers, Mexican-American lesbians, lots and lots of Korean people, and an assortment of shallow, beauty-obsessed twits who moved here because they thought that’s what we were about.

Do not believe your TV. That last group is small and insignificant to the rest of us.

Hugs,

ignatz

P.S. And if you include all of California, please note that Redding, Needles, Salinas, San Bruno, Porterville, Hemet, El Centro, and Auburn have very little to do with the Melrose Place lifestyle either.

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[brianenigma.livejournal.com]

...and hugs from all of us vegan, granola-eating, microbrew-drinking, tree-hugging, dog-loving hippies up in Teh Rainy Pr0tland.

Our average annual rainfall is less than that of a bunch of cities, including Houston. We have one of the highest concentrations of burger stands in the nation. The microbrew thing is kind of true, though...

[wendigo.livejournal.com]

Fuhgettaboutit!

Here in New Joisey, we provide an entertaining series of tollbooths to impede the progress of New Yawkers silly enough to want to visit Philadelphia. If they can make it past the great herds of Ford Mustangs and primer-grey Camaros driven by men who all seem to be named Tony or Vinnie, we'll bog them down in pine thicket or poison them with the drinking water at the rest stops, the contents of which read like an Organic Chem glossary.

Or sometimes, we trap them altogether ... hey, folks who work in those cities need somewhere to sleep! Hell, if they really want to move up in the world, they may even learn how much money can be made in the "sanitation business."

[frobisher.livejournal.com]

and, of course, since this is from nyc:

fuck off and die.

love, dha