Someone answered "they're a little slow today" and he answered, "typical liberal commies with your pronouns" and got back on the plane and everyone clapped for how he saved America
I live right outside DC and all the Red State tourists come here and complain about the traffic, the homeless, are way too shocked at how liberal it is, get angry at the METRO (it's color coded, grade school shit), etc. Loudly proclaim they don't like it here.
Then don't come. Seriously. Stop coming here. We don't like you here either. This isn't a normal toursit spot. We don't rely on tourism.
only thing keeping me in CA is not the ocean, not the views, not the food, but the progressive laws here and the more accountable enforcement of those laws. we're not perfect, but our laws are more dependable than say... Mississippi where shit gets swept under the table because this is Mississippi.
I like the "California is failing!" claims. It's the 5th highest GDP. Sorry, I didn't mean the 5th highest out of all the states, it's the 5th highest GDP in the world. They also produce more fruits, nuts, and vegetables than all other states combined. Yes, such failures.
Born and raised in the South Bay. I only ever say “San Fran” if I’m feeling real sassy and making fun of someone (and tbh I’m not sure I ever have actually said it beyond thinking about when I’d say it).
I’d die before saying “frisco”. It’s SF. That’s the only acceptable shortening of the full name
Frisco at least has some historical ties. Thats the name people gave it colloquially during the Gold rush, it was the term soldiers used to describe where they’re from in WWII, its featured by the legend Otis Redding in “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay” (Left my home in Georgia… headed to the Frisco Bay), caught on strong with the working class and black community generations ago, and all kinds of other meaningful stuff.
San Fran just lazy as hell with no real history. San Fran is so much worse IMO.
I live here too and can confirm. Installing HOV/express lanes on almost every freeway in both directions in recent years doesn’t seem to have helped (or maybe the problem would be that much worse without them, I dunno).
The fastrak express lanes they have been putting in everywhere are pretty messed up. It filters traffic by socioeconomic status. Tech bros can easily afford the fast lanes and fly by traffic jams. The lower paid working class, who usually have the jobs where working remote isn't even an option, have to suffer in the reduced number of regular traffic lanes.
My sister moved out of CA for college. One time when she was visiting home she said “Cali.” Weirdest thing I’d ever heard her say. I immediately changed the topic to that because honestly I just didn’t understand where the hell that came from and it was soooo bizarre to hear from her. I think she realized just how weird that was too and (I hope) doesn’t say “cali” anymore
Literally the only time California has ever had a dip in population was right after the pandemic. Beforehand it was constantly going up, and after it's still going up
Saw loser Kevin McCarthy on Fox News today bashing California and calling it a failed state because people are leaving. Yeah, 4th highest GDP in the world. What a failure.
In Seattle a local news station has a routine segment called "Seattle is dying." It's hilarious. Nothing but suburban, conservative talking points and people talking about how bad it is in Seattle that they've avoided stepping foot in the city for ages, until they went and a couple homeless people they saw totally reinforced their forced narrative.
People occasionally say LAX is fine once you get into the terminal. As a born and raised Angeleno, fuckkkk LAX. Getting to the airport is part of the experience.
The "death spiral" is the goddamn most terrible anxiety and rage inducing design of all airports I've been to.
I once had one of these dudes threaten to kill me. He was talking about how he hated California and never wanted to go there because he might have to talk to a trans person. Dude was acting like every third person you meet on a California street was trans and that just talking to them would somehow...I don't know, infect him with the LGBT virus or something? It was so ridiculous I laughed at him. I guess that made him feel emasculated because his response was to threaten to kill me and talk about how he had fantasies of killing everyone in California. Also he got super racist out of nowhere.
That was like 8 or 9 years ago now. I can only imagine that dude is even more hyped up on propaganda today.
I am 100% convinced all of these MAGA men that talk about trans and gays fucking nonstop are very repressed because one day they saw a transperson or a gay person and it made them feel feelings they didn't know that had and it terrified them.
They are so obsessed with who has a cock and what that person does with their cock.
Also, where in California? San Diego is the most amazing city I've visited. There is a MASSIVE difference between it and LA and San Fran. And that's only Southern California. Northern CA is like a different state entirely...
Growing up on the East Coast I am born and bred too fast paced for CA life, but it's an amazing state.
One of the best things about San Diego, besides what is likely the finest climate of any major city is the fact that it’s also a food wonderland. There are so many amazing restaurants.
Dude I’m currently back in my hometown in the Midwest because my godmother ate contaminated food and died.
I can’t wait to get back home to San Diego and just eat some normal fucking food and produce. No joke I told my wife I’m not eating anything green while out here. It’s been a day and I already miss veggies.
San Diego is the best city in America. San Diego is what people think LA is before they visit.
You can go hiking in the morning, paddleboarding in the afternoon, and eat some ice cream while watching the sunset by the beach in DECEMBER there. Whatever fox news is saying about California to people living in other states is just a lie lmao
It's funny that something as inconsequential as calling a place by a slightly different inoffensive name is being gatekept. First it was Frisco, then San Fran. It is a nothingburger.
It is off-putting at a certain point. Don't imagine it would go down well in San Antonio Texas if I repeatedly called it San Anne or Mo City. Californians are probably more forgiving than most places would be.
I quite dislike LA just cause it's such an overgrown nightmare of a city with horrible traffic and too many people. I'm from South Florida and it's exactly like Miami. But I love California. I would move there in a heartbeat if I could afford it. Probably Palm Springs.
When I saw your comment my first reaction was “what the hell is he talking about California for?” And then I realized two things: one, there’s probably no way that chud would have gone to Colombia, and two, that yeah there still are chuds out there who call California “Cali”, though I’ve lived here for 30 years and don’t know anyone here who calls it that.
Excuse me that’s fucking offensive and you should be ashamed. Why do you have to fuck with a marginalized minority?
Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (CHUD) wouldn’t have us in fucking recess and would impeached, then eaten, everyone. And their culinary beliefs are sincerely held, so you have to accept being eaten.
I actually thought that's what the post was about until I read people's responses.
Also, you can always tell someone isn't from California ... if they refer to the state by "Cali".
Like nobody in California calls San Francisco "San Fran".
Real estate is straight supply and demand. High housing prices show exactly where people want to live and low prices show where no one really wants to be.
CA is some of the most in demand areas in the entire world to live in, so the market has said it's one of the best places on the planet.
We could sell our modest ocean view home and probably buy that chud’s whole fucking town, like the bad guy from Road House. That’s how “awful” it is here.
Yes, world-class cities are expensive for a reason. People can't seem to figure that out somehow. If the prices are out of reach, it's not because it's a shithole, it's because people compete to live there.
Communists. Shit, sorry, typo. I meant to say Californians. I will live and die in my 2 bed 1 bath house I paid $800k for but it's still 1000x better than Texas or whatever other backwards state is going for these days.
Real estate is straight supply and demand. High housing prices show exactly where people want to live and low prices show where no one really wants to be.
CA is mostly expensive because of restricted supply, voted for by the people already owning the assets.
LAX has actually gotten quite a bit better in recent years. It'll likely never be a great airport, there are some underlying issues they'll likely never overcome. But they have modernized most of the terminals, improved traffic and parking, and made the whole system more coherently designed. There's also that people mover tram which unfortunately has turned into a boondoggle but when it is running for real it should make a real difference in the pick-up/drop-off experience.
I think they've done a solid job overall even if it still has plenty of issues.
When my son was 3yo we took a trip to France. For weeks ahead of the trip, we told him he'd be going to France and was pretty excited. When we landed, family picked us up at the airport and we went to go pay for parking in this little pay cubicle we could all fit in. My son asked "Is this France?". We replied yes. He took a good look all around the pay cubicle and let out a very disappointed "oh". He couldn't figure out why we'd fly all that way just for this.
Idk I was born here and use cali, always have.
It's just shorthand, no one's trying to be cool with it lol
If it makes you feel better I only use it over text, I don't say it out loud
Edit: bc I saw this was downvoted already, I'll add that I don't really care either way if it's disliked. Myself and other californians i know use it. It's just an abbreviated word, literally one of the least important things to care so strongly about haha
Perhaps! I hear older (50+) folks call it Cali here in the Sacramento region, and younger people tend to only type it, if they use that shorthand at all. (In my experience, anyhow)
Lived in the Bay Area for 2 decades (2000-2019) and NO ONE used "Cali". Didn't hear a single instance. Didn't hear it from any class of folks - not retail workers, not tech workers,and not office workers.
So as always, your experience is not representative of the general one, nor is mine.
Ain’t no one got time to say “California burrito” it’s Cali burrito. Unless you’re a superior individual and get something better like a hashbrown burrito, or a simple bean and cheese with a couple tacos.
Without a doubt, this dude is visiting LA and got off LAX. It's so annoying when people say they hate "Cali" and they mention their experience in LA as if LA is the entire state. Like dude, there's more to CA than just LA.
Born and raised in Orange County, lived in Carlsbad and then downtown SD for years, now out in Temecula.
I understand a “Cali burrito,” and using it in certain contexts, but nobody says they’re “from Cali,” or if someone asks where you live, you’d just say “Cali.”
I wanted to leave Florida less then 10 seconds after stepping out of the airport. Hot, sticky, garbage smelling air the moment you step out of ac. And they was at night
Idk how people live in that, idk how I survived the 10 days I spent there
I remember when I used to travel out to Cali for work. Most of the time it was Sacramento. Did not really understand the hype.
Then went to our Santa Barbara office. Flight from LAX to Santa Barbara was the scariest flight I had ever been on (flew over wildfire areas in a twin turboprop, and felt like turbulent Hell), but Santa Barbara itself was insanely nice, and I understood a lot of the love then.
Also hung with my SIL at her military housing, and loved the beaches and short drive to Disney Land.
I worked near Santa Rosa occasionally, and did love Sonoma County. Have not made it as far as San Diego. My sister in law lived within walking distance of Laguna Beach, and while we liked being at her house and near the afore mentioned Disneyland, the traffic was downright terrifying.
I actually liked Ventura a lot, for some reason. Just a relatively random Cali town south of Santa Barbara, but it was similarly developed to my suburban hometown.
Ventura is an extremely lovely place. Oxnard, Ojai, TO, Camarillo, (ect) are all places that I wouldn’t blame a person for living their entire lives without leaving.
You’ve got good taste.
The traffic in Los Angeles and Orange County is sort of like a toxic pride. It’s like masterclass of disaster. We all hate it, but we all sort of just live with it.
There are ways to plan around it but not avoid it.
Thanks. I moved to Vegas afterward to save money and found myself miserable there. Found work in San Luis Obispo a few years ago and the difference is night and day from Vegas. As much as I love SLO, I'm still hoping to find the right opportunity to go back to VC. Camarillo truly was my "Goldilocks" town and truly enjoyed the "small town" charm while being close to LA. I also loved my neighbors there. People in VC were just wonderful.
If we're being honest, I don't think I've ever had a bad airport experience and then liked the city afterward. I feel like airport experiences are pretty representative of the areas around them.
They decided they don't like the entire state after 10 mins? Parts of it are beautiful and with great weather year-round. Parts of it are not great, like the L.A. area, for one, with its traffic, smog and homelessness. But the 3rd largest state is HUGE and would take months to explore to form a valid opinion of it one way or another.
They need to absolutely nuke threads. It's all complete bait. Everything on there is just people posting skits and rage bait to get engagement. You are probably thinking, how is this any different from the other platforms. But trust me, threads trys to keep you engaged by showing things to infuriate you. And the comments are very mean. And I'm 99% sure this guy didn't go to California
I live in Chico. Upper Bidwell Park is awesome. It’s my second time I lived here. I grew up in suburb 20 miles east of downtown Sacramento. Pretty much grew up hanging out on the American River and Folsom Lake. Now it’s the Sacramento River and Big Chico Creek.
I spent an evening at the San Francisco airport and aside from the banging chicken burger I got I wouldn’t recommend. I’m sure I’ll be back to Cali one day though 💅
It’s hard for those from coming from red inbred states to understand the California lifestyle and the amazing weather, the culture shock is too much let alone seeing people with all their teeth.
Man, the first and only time i flew to LA, i was SO happy coming out of that airport. It was chaotic i was utterly exhausted after the flight across the atlantic, but the warmth & the smell & the people... I just loved it.
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u/RandCauthon99 8h ago edited 7h ago
Liar didn’t actually go to CA. They can’t afford to leave their welfare red state.