The Two Californias
In the Bay Area, if the air quality is poor, it's officially called a "Spare the Air Day." It makes the news, and everyone is encouraged to find other means of transportation--walking, biking, taking public transportation.
In Southern California, when the air quality is bad, people talk about how nice it is outside.
it's funny how Californians are so antagonistic toward their geographic counterparts; the two regions are incredibly different and not in ways we tend to embrace.
The Bay Area is completely dominated by the computer industry, while Southern California really isn't dominated by one particular industry--the entertainment business is very visible, of course, but it is no match, dominance-wise, for the "Silicon Valley-ization" of the Bay Area.
It was such a relief not to hear the word "software" even once while I was visiting SoCal.
In Southern California, when the air quality is bad, people talk about how nice it is outside.
it's funny how Californians are so antagonistic toward their geographic counterparts; the two regions are incredibly different and not in ways we tend to embrace.
The Bay Area is completely dominated by the computer industry, while Southern California really isn't dominated by one particular industry--the entertainment business is very visible, of course, but it is no match, dominance-wise, for the "Silicon Valley-ization" of the Bay Area.
It was such a relief not to hear the word "software" even once while I was visiting SoCal.
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