LA is a lot like Sacramento, but big and without the trees.
Really, I’ve spent a lot of time there, and most of my memories involve freeways. I hate cars and I hate being in them. I wouldn’t last a week. Do you know here in Santa Cruz i only get in a car a couple times a week and hit the freeway maybe twice a month?
Here in SC, the college students are split pretty evenly between Northern California and Southern California. The first few days in the dorms can get pretty tense, and people never stop fighting about “hella”. FWIW I think that Santa Cruz is pretty much the central-northern California border. The Bay and Sac are the northern strongholds, but Salinas and Monterey are definately central. What is there really beyond Sacramento? Marysville? Chico? Alturas? Not a hellava lot…
Hrm… who is saying “hella”, and who is complaining about it?
You know how I can always spot a southern california transplant? “How do I get to ‘the’ 280 from ‘the’ 101?” and so forth. I know it is something stupid to get worked up over, but it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard when I hear that. If I needed a reason to hate southern california, that would be it
I never realized “hella” was a regional word until my freshman year in Santa Cruz. All the Angelenos in my dorm were baffled by it. I wouldn’t say there were fights or arguments about it, but it was a definite and obvious dividing line - the Northerners said it and the Southerners didn’t - even though they lived in Santa Cruz, where the locals DO say it.
This is how we should figure out where the line between Northern and Southern California is! Where do people stop saying “hella” and start adding “the” in front of freeway numbers? (Sounds awful to my ears, too.)
And I would suggest the border goes esentially due east from there through the valley …Stockton (ick) is northern, Modesto (more ick) central. (Where’s that pukey smiley folks were asking for … ) Yosemite northern, Sequoia/Kings Canyon central.
