77%
When my mother visited me in Monterrey, she hissed, “There’s a man with his hair in braids.”
I glanced over and said, “Yeah?” to be polite.
Really, you know you’re a Californian when you see a blond guy with his hair in braids, with silver concho earrings and feathers on the leather braid ties and you don’t think it’s unusual. You don’t even think it’s interesting.
48%
100%, and I moved here for college.
If it’s NorCal, it’s ‘I-5’. If SoCal, it’s either the Santa Ana Freeway or ‘the 5’.
After the earthquake?
Ha - before. I always thought the quakes were exciting once I grew up and learned the earth didn’t usually open up and swallow you. I remember the Sylmar one distinctly. I lived in Azusa. I left a trail of blankets from my bed running into the hallway.
Now you should know better–you’re just buying into the stereotypes. You know about June Gloom, and you know about Santa Anas. You know you do.
These quizzes are just Buzzfeed/Facebook chaff–for whatever place they address. I could get 100%, because I knew the simplistic answers they wanted. (It helps that I’ve lived in both Northern and Southern CA, too.) The problem with this particular one is that–while everyone expects a place like NYC to be complex–few outsiders realize how complex California actually is.
Correct. It’s the Santa Ana Freeway.
Even in Northern California.
The Santa Monica Freeway. All the way to Jacksonville, FL.
I got 90%, which surprises me because I only lived there for 5% of my life. We moved away 15 years ago.
We think differently, up here.
It WAS the city, the only real city in a hundred miles, when (and where) it was called The City. But those times are past. It would be an old person who called it that now.
No, that would be the antithesis of “California”, not the real state. There are many hundreds of square miles where you’d be right at home.
Cite?
My parents call it the City. They’re in their late eighties. I never hear young people call it that. I’m of the generation that calls “Silicon Valley” The Santa Clara Valley, which is its real frickin name. I was born there. And, by the way, you’re standing on my lawn.
83% California:
No. I’m from Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, and (primarily) (Western) Montana. (It’s complicated. Let’s just say that Missoula has long been my pole star, the one fixed point in my personal geography, regardless of where my mail was actually going.) I’ve spent a total of less than a week in California (San Francisco) and I can’t say I’m especially immersed in the culture.
More personally, I’m in favor of good-tasting food with novel ingredients, but morally opposed to the anti-GMO anti-vaccine anti-science Greens I see selling it. ‘Organic’ is not quite an insult in my lexicon, but its coloring is morally ambiguous.