# How California Are You? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 10, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762 "2014-07-10T13:53:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/61 "2014-07-11T21:19:24Z")
100%, although I push Dodger Dogs at Burning Man, so that’s why people can tell I’m from SoCal. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/62 "2014-07-11T22:05:28Z")
54%. I’ve visited San Francisco… ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/63 "2014-07-16T06:03:15Z")
Dude. If we are having an _ **actual earthquake** _, I am not gonna be running over to my PC to check facebook! First of all, in a quake that is clearly not a tremor, the place to be is under a heavy table or in a doorway to protect your squishy body. During the Loma Prieta earthquake, I was in a 5-story building somewhere in San Mateo taking a Lotus123 course. I went under one of the heavy metal desks. All of the people not from California ran to the windows, which in this particular building were designed to swing out away from the building rather than shatter. :rolleyes: The freaking floor opened up, you could see all the way down to the parking garage.:eek: It is true, however, that the most common thing you hear people say here after a tremor is, “Did you feel that earthquake?” I am third generation Californian, and I got 70%. I missed the fast food one and the other fast food one. Do we even have that chain in the Bay Area? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/64 "2014-07-16T10:17:18Z")
I got 60% which means the dork that put these questions together is a [Complete Loser.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUZijEuNDQ) ---
**Author:** ![troubledwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@troubledwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troubledwater)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/65 "2014-07-16T12:28:41Z")
80%. I guess having spent 17 years in Nevada hasn’t caused irreparable damage. And I got this question right, but I don’t go to Facebook after earthquakes; I go to the USGS site. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/66 "2014-07-17T23:42:37Z")
I got 90%. Born and raised So. Cal. ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/67 "2014-07-18T04:52:53Z")
93% Too lazy to “drive my recyclables” any effing where. ---
**Author:** ![MrsTime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@MrsTime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrsTime)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/68 "2014-07-18T05:11:21Z")
52%, and I was born and raised in Southern California. However I have been away for many many years. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/69 "2014-07-18T05:29:29Z")
97% Yippee! Born and raised in the LA area. Haven’t lived there since the late 90’s but still registered to vote. :-)) ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/70 "2014-07-18T20:10:12Z")
Having lived my entire 46 years in Sacramento, I find that I’m 90% California, only because I answered Question 8 ‘wrong’. I know what the ‘right’ answer was, but instead I answered honestly (I’d toss them in the trash). I particularly liked question 9 “This is a taco truck…” ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/71 "2014-07-18T20:12:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > You ain’t from around here, are ya? :dubious: > > If you’re on I-5, you’re in NorCal. If you’re on the 5, you’re in the real California. If you think you’re in NorCal, you’re not from Northern California. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/72 "2014-07-19T14:32:48Z")
12% Who are you trying to kid here? Maybe you’ll do better on our “How NYC Are You?” quiz. Schmuck. Now I gotta try the NYC quiz 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/73 "2014-07-19T15:21:59Z")
56%. That sounds about right – I lived there for three years, about 20 years ago. I scored a bit higher than I “should” have, because I’m so comfortable with Mexican language and food, for reasons having nothing to do with my years living in California. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/74 "2014-07-19T16:24:06Z")
90%. Born and raised in Philadelphia! I do drive through from time to time…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/75 "2014-07-19T19:31:01Z")
I got the earthquake one wrong. I assumed they meant a Northridge type earthquake. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/76 "2014-08-07T07:01:06Z")
4th generation Californian. 87% on the quiz.:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/77 "2014-08-07T14:04:14Z")
57%. New England born and breed from a family of very old New Englanders, and you couldn’t get me to live in California if the rest of the US fell into the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/78 "2014-08-07T15:28:19Z")
34% and proud of it considering my total time in California has maybe been 30 days over my lifetime and I was in an altered state for 25 of them. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/79 "2014-08-16T21:04:27Z")
Only visited California three times, all more than 20 years ago. Got 40%. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762/80 "2014-08-16T21:40:15Z")
87 percent. I left in 1989. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-california-are-you/692762.md?page=5)