<p>We are from the greater Seattle area and are constantly amazed at how people from Chicago and east think of Seattle as out in the wilderness. Hello . . . Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks - just to name a few things we have here.<br>
D refused to look at schools east of the Mississippi and/or south of the Mason Dixon line. Her reach was Stanford, and others are in Washington, Oregon, Minnesota and Iowa. It was definitely a cultural thing. LA area has it’s own culture separate from the rest of the west, though. I once went on 3 day cruise out of LA and it was like being on another planet - the women in particular. Everyone from teens to seniors were “enhanced” in various ways.</p>