The way I see it (colleges)

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<p>There are two types of schools: Schools I go to and schools I don’t.</p>

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<p>California has good weather = sunshine = more people in outdoors = more activity = more energetic.</p>

<p>CA is the richest state in the country, and most of the most expensive and good neighborhoods are in Southern Cal.</p>

<p>ie: Beverly Hills.</p>

<p>It has beaches and places that would be perfect for your vacation (Santa Barbara), and people are liberal and appreciative of new ideas.</p>

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<p>oh yeah and the governor is an ex-movie star.
BEAT THAT!</p>

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<p>LOL YOU GAIZ R SO FUNNA****Y!!!11111oneone</p>

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<p>California is great, but who wants sunshine all year long?! Maybe I’m just weird since I’ve lived in Texas for so long where it’s always sunny and HOT AS HELL. I’m ready to go way north, and I’m very happy that most of the best colleges are up north as well.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I would hate to live in a place where it is usually 85+ degrees. Its too hot, I would fry.</p>

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<p>I love how ignorant people are about Texas…it’s so cute.</p>

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<p>I think you’re blind.</p>

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<p>Actually, It’s NOT. NJ, followed by CT are the two richest states in the U.S.</p>

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<p>Liberals are more accepting of gay people. It’s only natural that a liberal school would have a large gay population.</p>

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<p>“I think you’re blind.”</p>

<p>If that’s directed towards me, I have nothing to reply with but laughter.</p>

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<p>Yeah for NJ!!!</p>

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<p>I hope the ignorant a/b Texas thing wasn’t directed towards me. I’ve been here for 18 years, so I’m pretty familiar with the weather.</p>

<p>Edit: lol just realized that was referring to the political position of Texas. yeah mostly republicans (another reason I’m leaving) but there are definite liberal spots like UT.</p>

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<p>haha. it’s kind of true. lots of people talk about texas and they generalize sooo much its ridiculous. however, that said, i will say it is pretty damn republican. as far as colleges go, there are a lot of them that are relatively liberal. i mean, people aren’t rallying against gay marriage and abortion every day. jeez. seriously, people seems to only think rice and UT exist.</p>

<p>however, THAT said…i still don’t like texas. haha. the culture is just very monotonous, there’s nothing “special” about it…to me. and it still has that rebuplican feel to it no matter what.</p>

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<p>It most definitely IS. If California were a separate nation, it’d have the 8th largest economy in the WORLD. What you’re talking about is completely different:
“Its per capita personal income in 2004 was $41,636, 4th in the U.S. and 126% of the national average of $33,041.[11] Its median household income is the highest in the nation with $55,146. It is ranked 2nd in the nation by the number of places with per capita incomes above national average with 76.4%.”</p>

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<p>Of course I wasn’t talking about your weather comment, brand! In my area you could easily add on 10-15 degrees and still be accurate. It’s awful!</p>

<p>I don’t quite understand what you mean by what you say about Texas culture, current, but the Republican feel pretty much stays in the smaller cities and towns. Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas seem pretty normal to me.</p>

<p>And Californians may make a bigger dollar figure, but they have outrageous cost-of-living. I sure wouldn’t want to live in most places there unless I was near movie-star wealthy.</p>

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<p>jpod,</p>

<p>props to nj,</p>

<p>not to ca.</p>

<p>quirkly, i don’t know where you got your data from, but according to the 2004 census,</p>

<p>median household income for california - $51,185
median household income for new jersey- $61,359</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.thinkkentucky.com/EDIS/Deskbook/files/HouseholdIncSt.pdf[/url]”>http://www.thinkkentucky.com/EDIS/Deskbook/files/HouseholdIncSt.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/acs-01.pdf[/url]”>http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/acs-01.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>My mistake. I got lazy and pulled that from Wikipedia. I suppose I didn’t make it quite clear–that (apparently inaccurate) quote is supposed to refer to NJ.
My point was, though, that CA still has a larger economy/GSP than NJ or CT or any other state in the country.</p>

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<p>CA alone has the 5th largest economy in the WORLD.
NJ is the richest? what have you been smoking?!?!
They are incomparable.</p>