LOL...actually I was born a Californian...only a 'zonie for the last 37 years! I spent the first 7 and all my summers until I was 16 trolling the beaches of L.A. with a surf board under my arm!Originally Posted by JoFotoz
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LOL...actually I was born a Californian...only a 'zonie for the last 37 years! I spent the first 7 and all my summers until I was 16 trolling the beaches of L.A. with a surf board under my arm!
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My vote for Larry for helping a fellow Larry when he got me a drain plug from an Isuzu cuz mine was some aftermarket quick release that I did not trust. I was a newbie at that time and Ldub came through for a fellow member, that he has never met, and I still really appreciate it and will never forget it. Not only that, but a few PM's went his way asking "rookie" questions as well. Like I said, if I can do anything over here on the "west coast," I will make the same effort!
Thanks again dub!! :gring:
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LMFAO, I was just poking at you...I guess now I can say that Southern Californians are way too sensitive? Although my sample group (VX owners) would not be a good representation, VX owners are not "normal".
The only reason I mentioned it is that I just moved here to SC from San Diego 1 year ago this week. I lived in San Diego three different times. I was in Rancho Bernardo, Chula Vista, and Pacific Beach. At every house we lived in, we would go talk to our neighbors, some of whom had lived there for years, and none of them knew each other!!! How do you not know your neighbors? My wife and I are both from Missouri, and my wife's closest neighbors were 1/2 mile down the road, and they still knew all of them within a few miles. I guess it is just a cultural difference.
Relax So Cal brothers and sisters, it was just good natured ribbing. Being in the Navy, I have met people from everywhere and get along with just about everyone. When we get new students, they have to write an essay about where they are from, their hobbies and so on. It enables us to profile, so to speak, and identify the ones that may have problems later on. When I read the San Diego kid's essays, it never fails that hobbies include :shopping, tanning, water polo, surfing, texting...I didn't know tanning was a hobby?! They also have really bad habits about saying "LIKE" and "DUDE". LOL
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And us east coast folks get left out to dry. I understand. Tomorrow, I shall divide the states at the Mississippi River and call it a day.
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LIKE DUDE...you sure know how to stir the pot...LMFAO, I was just poking at you...I guess now I can say that Southern Californians are way too sensitive? Although my sample group (VX owners) would not be a good representation, VX owners are not "normal".
The only reason I mentioned it is that I just moved here to SC from San Diego 1 year ago this week. I lived in San Diego three different times. I was in Rancho Bernardo, Chula Vista, and Pacific Beach. At every house we lived in, we would go talk to our neighbors, some of whom had lived there for years, and none of them knew each other!!! How do you not know your neighbors? My wife and I are both from Missouri, and my wife's closest neighbors were 1/2 mile down the road, and they still knew all of them within a few miles. I guess it is just a cultural difference.
Relax So Cal brothers and sisters, it was just good natured ribbing. Being in the Navy, I have met people from everywhere and get along with just about everyone. When we get new students, they have to write an essay about where they are from, their hobbies and so on. It enables us to profile, so to speak, and identify the ones that may have problems later on. When I read the San Diego kid's essays, it never fails that hobbies include :shopping, tanning, water polo, surfing, texting...I didn't know tanning was a hobby?! They also have really bad habits about saying "LIKE" and "DUDE". LOL
I think "texting" as a hobby is hilarious, whatever happened to just TALKING to people?
It is my fervent hope, that the stoop @ the ROCK doesn't degenerate into "fight club" when alcohol is added...
Anyone in the mood to get "scuffed up a bit", will no longer be welcome near 112...
And me, the "midwest poster boy" here in the middle...I can drive for about two hours (N E) & literally WALK across the headwaters of the Mississippi.And us east coast folks get left out to dry. I understand. Tomorrow, I shall divide the states at the Mississippi River and call it a day.
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I'm with you Cece, I've been moved to Reno from Chicago for 2.5 years now and there is NO WAY I would come back. There would have to be some ridiculously enormous sum involved for me to even think about going back east. I honestly don't know how anyone could even begin to compare the East to the West. Just look at a map. The eastern US is like 3 times and crowded!! Gill is one lucky dude to have found someone willing to make that sacrifice!!!Now go convince him to move out west with you!!!
See, maybe it's a city thing, but man, people out here are WAAAAY more layed back than the people in Chicago. And the same goes for California. People are just super friendly and way more outgoing and open minded. Living in Chicago was like, put your head down, walk, and don't make eye contact. I also found living in the city very "click" oriented. I had my group of friends (that I have been friends with since childhood mind you) and that was really it. To me it was like, I don't know you, I don't want to know you and I don't care to know you. TOTALLY DIFFERENT VIBE out here, and imo, way cooler.
But you live in the "South" where it takes like 20 minutes to get a #2 cheeseburger meal at McDonalds, so I really can't compare.
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DUUUUDE! How can you get to know your neighbors in the Midwest when very few of them speak English? I moved out of a condo complex because I felt like I was in an east block country and now that I finally moved into a "nice neighborhood", neighbors on one side still don't speak English and the neighbors on the other side are gold medalist A-holes. The house two doors down is renting out every room in their house, the garage is converted into another apartment, and they're trashing the block (piling up dog crap in the alley, cigarettes, beer cans, fast food trash, did I mention they have 8 or so different cars that they can't park on their own property)... yeah... Midwesterners are the BEST!!!
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There you have it folks. Another Chicagoan who feels the same way. I got SOOOO SICK of EXACTLY what Gill is talking about after living in the city for nearly 10 years. It's just TOO MUCH. Leaving that place was a MONUMENTAL LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE. But you know, Chicago has some nice suburbs, if you can afford them and don't mind commuting for 3 hours a day.DUUUUDE! How can you get to know your neighbors in the Midwest when very few of them speak English? I moved out of a condo complex because I felt like I was in an east block country and now that I finally moved into a "nice neighborhood", neighbors on one side still don't speak English and the neighbors on the other side are gold medalist A-holes. The house two doors down is renting out every room in their house, the garage is converted into another apartment, and they're trashing the block (piling up dog crap in the alley, cigarettes, beer cans, fast food trash, did I mention they have 8 or so different cars that they can't park on their own property)... yeah... Midwesterners are the BEST!!!
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How did we highjack this thread so bad?
I feel it's more a city size thing sometimes. I was born and raised in Tucson until I was 21 and most of my neighbors spoke English when I was a kid and I had other kids to play with. As time went on and people left, new people moved into the area we had less and less English speaking people. As well as lots of people that wouldn't maintain their yard's and would keep their dog tied to a 10ft chain in the back 24/7 barking ALL the time.
That was my "South" and people were on the go and click oriented too, I think everyone a little. Moving to Reno was also a major change for me. I have grown and become more of an individual here than I ever was back home.
People get stuck in their Day to Day and don’t care about anyone else back there. My father-in-law just crashed his motorcycle a month ago in Tucson because some lady ran a red light. NO ONE stopped to help him. NO ONE!!! He was OK and everything but he was having a hard time getting the bike up and getting out of the way and no one did anything...
How did we highjack this thread so bad?
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Bottom line...size & below zero matter...
Here in dinkycoldville (Fargo, right around 100k) I live in an old house that's been converted into six apartments. I know every one of my neighbors by their first name, including the elderly couple who live in the house next door.
Four out of the seven other people who live here, regularly come to hang in "Larryland" (it's on my door), and the two noobs who just moved in, have already been invited to join us around the fire pit on summer evenings...
I still maintain friendships with at least four people who formerly lived here.
There's one I won't hang out with at all, he's on the long list...
I regularly patrol the yard & boulevard to keep trash at bay...the ghetto is right across the street in two directions, but I'll keep it there as long as possible.
All in all, I feel like a pretty lucky guy.
And yeah, we did jack hell outta this thread, my apologies Mark...
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Thread jack doesn't bother me any. The original post was just to thank you (Ldub) for the work on Vicki last year. I never got to wheel her in Moab with the lift, so I'm looking forward to getting back there this year to see how the lift helps.
Oh, and I agree....the Red Rock porch is no place for feudin'. Only good natured ribing, tall tales, and swash buckling stories coupled with some adult beverages will be tolerated.
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An Epiphany I have had over the years of traveling coast to coast in the last 15 years (2 million Miles)
Illinois is a great place to be FROM!!!!
and if you actually gauged the separation of the country according to attitude... The Mississippi river is about right.
just my 2 cents minus emoticans
Jeff
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x2... Our bad!And yeah, we did jack hell outta this thread, my apologies Mark...
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Wait a second, I don't really count Chicago as Midwest. There are no farmers in Chicago!!! Even the people from Illinois don't like to claim chicago!!!!!! It is it's own corrupt little world. Kind of like grouping So Cal with the rest of California. They are not even remotely the same. I realize a majority of California is farmland. But much the same as NY, everyone thinks of NYC, where as it is physically a very small part of the state. Upstate is awesome, I went to school in the Albany area, gorgeous and great fishing/camping.
I just like "stirring the pot". There will certainly be no fisticuffs from me!!! We (nukes) just like to spin people up, we sometimes play devil's advocate just for something to do. It keeps your mind sharp, and boredom at bay.
As far as the East Coast, well, I suppose its just the East Coast..how about the Mason-Dixon Line, so we can have the New England area, and the South East...
And Bart, it does take 2 hrs at McDs to get a burger here in the south...but at least they are polite about being ridiculously slllllllooooooooowwwwwwwww.
ummmmm, keep up the good work LDUB, (now its not thread jacking)
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See I am from southern AZ. Very, Very close to the US border, but im not considered from the south. I know what people mean when they say they're from the south but I'm from a place thats physically south as SC.
Drives me nuts.
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