California-how you can tell

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<li><p>You expect street names and numbers to actually be indicated by signs that are visible from the road instead of expecting everyone to magically guess them.</p></li>
<li><p>You have not experienced the inexplicable road design phenomenon known as the “cloverleaf”, i.e., you have on-ramps and off-ramps characterized by (1) absence of sudden, tight curves, (2) enough length to allow for speeding up or slowing down without disrupting the flow of traffic, and (3) a decent probability of entering or exiting a freeway without crashing into people.</p></li>
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<p>(Just had to speak up about the roads … I’m from California and the roads in the other places where I have lived have driven me insane.)</p>

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<p>Not to mention sipping your Peet’s and making calendar notes on your PalmPilot. :smiley: (guilty grin)</p>

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<p>CGM - Multiple boosts for me! (Immunity and Vita-boost)</p>

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<h1>55. You read this quote…</h1>

<p>“I missed the bus. They changed the schedule,” Weir said. “It was every 10 minutes. Today it was every half-hour. I was late getting here and never caught up. I never felt comfortable in this building. I didn’t feel my inner peace. I didn’t feel my aura. Inside I was black.”</p>

<p>And you pause and think, “Wow, Johnny, I know what you mean.”</p>

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<h1>56 or whatever</h1>

<p>Your kid uses the word “hella” and people in the east don’t understand</p>

<h1>57</h1>

<p>You jog and your doggie has his own treadmill</p>

<h1>58</h1>

<p>You order cheeseless, meatless, glucose free “pizza”</p>

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<h1>59</h1>

<p>Drivers actually stop for pedestrians in cross-walks, but there aren’t many.</p>

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<p>For it being such a nor*cal word, it’s gained pretty wide usage here at ucsd. Even by socallers.</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>So let’s talk Norcal. Nobody here puts their dog in a purse. Nobody medicates their dogs that I know. We are all just bemused because we don’t understand our demographics. Where else other than NYC do you find so much overlap of millionaires with liberals? Northern California, where you can be rich and a Democrat at the same time:)</p>

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<p>But in Berkeley Democrat is as conservative as it gets.</p>

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<p>Whatever number. You say “it’s FREEZING”, and you mean that the temperature has dropped into the 50s in mid-February.</p>

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<p>60- Frost freaks us out</p>

<p>61- You see the most giant obnoxius SUV parked smack dab against the tiniest european sports car, both looking gooodddd</p>