"California" according to Non-Californians
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
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As a non native California, everyone in the Midwest tried to convinced me it was basically anarchy here before moving lol. Turns out there aren’t cars on fire in the streets, I don’t need to wear specific colors for gangs, and I won’t just get mugged every time I leave my home 🤦♀️
My sister lived in Portland back when George Floyd protests were going on. At some point during that time you might've seen the extensive news coverage of the TOTAL ANARCHY and RAGING FIRES set by protesters and just massive destruction and chaos, no one is safe!!
She would regularly step outside during our FaceTime calls with a cup of coffee and pan the camera around the very peaceful, normal-ass neighborhood and say, "Man, it sucks that so much destruction and rioting is happening right now" LOL
What part of Cali are you in? I lived in San Diego for 7 years and would never go back. Total dumpster fire of a place
@@vettechhippie9373 Hard facts
Same! I moved here (NorCal) from Texas a little over a decade ago, and you wouldn't believe the things people say or ask about California when I go back to visit. It takes everything in me not to roll my eyes and say something sarcastic.
I always find it especially amusing when someone online tries to insult me for living here:
Them: "Well, enjoy stepping in human feces everytime you step outside!!"
Me: *all I see outside are gardenias, lillies, and two redwood trees*
Are you threatening to come poop on my porch, dude? 😂
I've lived here my whole life, and it's always amused me how people percieve it. "You've got desert, GTA, Lake Tahoe, and the Communist State of San Francisco and Berkeley which is full of violence and feces." I take public transit whenever I'm going to a major downtown, and it's nowhere near the druggie-infested gangfest people who have never been here tell me it is. It's mostly office workers, students, and old ladies!
The state is practically a garden of eden aside from the corner that is the Mojave. Ok, agriculture is taking all the water and some places are paradise paved over, but as long as you don't go to the likes of Blythe, Visalia, or Stockton, it's really not that bad.
It's important to clarify that "Southern Oregon" is not the same as "Southern Portland" as most of rural Oregon is full of culturally conservative loggers and ranchers, and is the west coast equivalent to Kentucky. Otherwise, no notes!
Ranchers are in Eastern Oregon, which is almost another country. Actually, several counties east of the Cascades are pushing to secede from Oregon and join Idaho. That will make Oregon a whole lot bluer right there.
Yeah, heard about the pointy white head gear folks in those robes in Oregon.
Honestly, a lot of the northern-most Californians are more like eastern Oregon than Portland... They keep talking about trying to seceded from greater California while totally ignoring that if they were their own state, they'd be super-poor.
As a Californian, I am impressed by the accuracy. Most people I run into are surprised it’s not all one big San Diego.
I always think of it north to south as, Forested California, Wine Country, and One Long City that changes names several times, all of which is nestled up to the coast.❤️🤗🐝
As a resident of "Baja Oregon", I sign off on the description.
Better than me. All i woulda given you was norcal and socal 😂
That's totally fair
Better than me. I would just call it all "Land of fruits and nuts" and go on with my day.
Man, i thought it was mudslides up top, earthquakes in the middle, and desert at the bottom. Glad i got taught by a local. :)
In just San Diego county you have the beach, a Mediterranean like climate, deserts, and forested mountains.
Nah, “earthquakes” is all the way through lol
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No mention of the giant deserts or the Sierra Nevadas ofc - Cali is all coastline 😂
That's in the Baja Oregon banner😂. My first response when he mentioned northern was "mountains" "it's all mountains" 😅
I've lived in California, but also based on driving to/through southern California, I would include a region called "the saddest, hottest, most deserty desert you'll ever see."
@@cbpd89 right? It's huge and goes on forever and is definitely a major feature of California
Which part is the desert? -Non Californian
@@alexandraphelps4020 there are a few huge major deserts in California. In the eastern lower half of the state. There is, moving north to south, Death Valley, Mojave, and Joshua Tree. They are all actually quite different in their ecosystems and range of wildlife, but driving through them does just look like endless, depressing, dryness and heat. Oh there's the Tehachapi area too, which is more high desert and not quite as miserable. All of them can be beautiful to look at if you enjoy that kind of thing. Just don't get out of the car. It sucks.
Yeah...I'm born and bred in the Bay Area. It's weird how people visit our region and want to go to beach. I have to warn them that the beaches are not what they think. And since I grew up in the East Bay, I have to also inform them that we have the bay beaches, and the ocean beaches. Many visitors think we are all like Baywatch.
I remember when I was living in Berkeley I was walking around downtown with a friend when some Irish exchange students, wearing swim trunks and decked out like it they were in San Diego, came up and asked us how to get to the beach 😅 We told them well you can take the bus down to the marina but it’s certainly not what you’re expecting…
As a midwesterner who's never been to California, that's a more comprehensive lesson on California geography than I've ever had before! Thanks!
California is a little bit of everything, really.
Also, fun fact, we're the only state to have an example of every major land-based geological feature within our outline. 😸
I used to live in Orange county (just south of Disneyland) I had people tell me that I lived in LA, they were from California, halfway between LA and San Francisco, to them California was San Francisco, then where they lived, then LA, then San Diego, then Mexico
As a native of Bakersfield I’d add in tumbleweeds to the cows and Fresno. 😂
Most non-Californians tend to forget that the southern half of the state is split between coastal sub-desert, and actual sub-desert. To them, the inland portion past the mountains just doesn't exist.
As someone who grew up in Baja Oregon, it always perplexed and vexed me that "nor cal" is San Francisco/Sacramento area. Like, that's not even halfway up the sate, how can that be "northern California." 😂
I always treated NorCal and SoCal as referring to the main population blobs, so San Luis Obispo to San Diego is SoCal, and Monterey to Lincoln is NorCal. "Northern California" is a separate term, just like "Central Valley".
I think because the weather is completely different.
I live in the North East of the UK. I am rather far north, but people from the south would say places that are hours drive away to the south are north. And I'm still 2 hours drive from the boarder. We do not have an equal division here either.
The robot boobs! So many times we drove past those wondering if they meant to make them look like that.
Anyway, this isn’t so bad… I learned pretty quickly after moving to Orange County that in the opinion of the local news stations the entire area was either LA or Not LA. So either news happened in actual civilization, or it happened in “the Southland.” If you heard an obvious police chase or prolonged helicopter noise in the night in Fullerton, good luck finding out what chaos went down because it wasn’t LA and never entered LA so it wasn’t news unless it ended in a big shoot out or someone famous was involved.
This is actually helpful because when i pick up a large map i forget how spacetime and language work, apparently, so i can never remember where anything is without them being in reference to each other.
You pronounce Oregon correctly, a true Californian! You can say whatever you want. You said it correct. How did I never realize i was that far into the state when I visited San Diego? Where in this melee is Stockton? And Santa Cruz?
Stockton is the shadowy place Mufasa tells Simba to never go to 😅
@Wee_Catalyst right? My aunt used to tell me to be back in her house no later than 4pm or I was locked out.
i have no mental map of anything outside of where the states are and where new york city is
oh yeah and all i knew specifically about california geography wise is that its surrounded by mountains or something. i know hollywood is in there and thats it, thats all i got
I work for CA doing agricultural inspections of vehicles entering the state. Evan though CA is large with a very long land border it is accomplished with just 16 stations. The terrain in CA can be impressive and challenging.
I think it's more that they don't realize how big California is rather than thinking San Francisco is huge.
I used to think the distance between Cleveland and Cincinnati was significant (roughly 250 mi). Then I moved to Colorado.
I now know how the middle of nowhere actually looks.
A day trip from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati just to pick up canned Gold Star chili
I lived in Albuquerque anything outside of the cities is desolate with no cell service. Never got a taste for New Mexico’s Hatch Chile
@@AngryVet44 It's wild how there're whole stretches for hundreds of miles with nothing, isn't it?
I'll forgive the mention of Gold Star. 😏 Skyline is the better option. 😉
There's a joke about how in America, 100 years is a long time, and how in western Europe, 100 miles (or km) is a long distance.
Am a thousands of miles away in UK, and this is the very first tie I've ever had a clear working idea of California, thank you so much Prof 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Never knew about the robot boobs!! lol 😂
Ive always lived on East Coast and my breakdown was: wine country, San Francisco, suburbia, LA+SD.
Loved your geographic descriptions😅
Thank you so much for pronouncing Oregon correctly! Makes me so happy!
As an Oregonian, I can't tell you how much I appreciate the fact that you pronounce "Oregon" correctly. Thank you!
how do people typically pronounce it?
@@alissa6380 "Or-ee-gone"
As a Sacramento resident, I feel personally attacked by this.
The not-so-racist Los Angeles starting closer to Bakersfield is funny and fitting except for how the southern San Joaquin Valley keeps voting like racist Los Angeles. The migration into Bako from LA has been shifting this city in ways I never thought I'd see.
I lived close to 30 years in the San Francisco portion, and that is a perfect rendering of how the city sees itself.
I was thinking the racist los Angeles (which he first described as clean los Angeles) was like orange county. Long beach, Huntington Beach, etc
Having lived in "Baja Oregon" and "racist los Angeles" this map does seem pretty accurate. Though the money is different between the two, Baja Oregon and racist los Angeles does have similar attitudes.
Baha Oregon? WTF? I have never seen a single rice field in Oregon ever! They also don't have mosquitos the size of birds and it doesn't typically rain bugs when you drive through Oregon. Only in Norcal as you leave Sacramento do you have to carry window cleaner and a squeegee to be able to pull over every 5 miles to clean your windows. Having been born and raised in this region of California I would call it more a misplaced section of the South, and not part of Oregon. This region politically has nothing in common with Oregon. It does have a lot more in common with the South/Bible Belt than it does with the rest of the West Coast. Oh, if you ask these people about the rest of the state of California, they will tell you that is where the devil is from.
It gives me mental whiplash any time I see a State of Jefferson sign out there. To be fair to the tales of the devil, the valley is focused towards a mountain that bears his name. It's a really nice landmark, always visible across the valley except in smoke season.
Oregon is red outside of Portland. We have State of Jefferson signs all over in Central Oregon.
Thank you. I’m from here 45 years and I jokingly referred to the failed attempt at breaking off into the state of Jefferson and ppl hated. It’s true! The ppl here are MUCH closer to the south than what you’d think of as ‘California’
I'm Canadian, never been to California but I find it nice to see that Californians and Ontarians share a similar relationship to their respective countries.
I’m an Oregonian. Northern Cal is not Oregon. Thank you very much. I don’t understand why people can’t wrap their head around the idea that western states being geographically large can be very diverse. Also isn’t there a big difference between coastal communities in California and those more inland?
So much for the beautiful mountain ranges, the redwoods+yosimite+other national forest, hot ass deserts/valleys, PCH & a wild number of beaches etc 😅. Though i dont completely disagree with the fullerton/ cow part or just ending at San Diego. Lets be honest once youre past San Diego youre just going to Vegas😂
Why would you go way down to San Diego to go to Vegas, you go through Los Angeles to get there. San Diego is a hop, skip, and jump from Mexico.
Lmao I was about to say “Regions?? Idk enough to even describe it’s regions!” but then you started up north and I was immediately like “Ah, yes, Oregon” 😂
As an Oregonian, I’m glad to have a Baja Oregon to the south!
Fresno is like the navel of California, we also have cows, yes.
(There are also some who say Fresno is the 'real world' Hellmouth, but if you're not familiar with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", that may not make sense.)
I'm from Chicago but I've lived in LA for 7 years now. (I should note I don't get to travel much except to Santa Barbara.) This is accurate. Except, for me, it goes more (from south to north) :
- San Diego,
- SoCal (basically encompasses anything I see on the local news. Northern border of this territory is SB),
- San Luis Obispo,
- Central California/no man's land (is this wine country? Or silicon valley place?),
- Bay Area (includes San Fran. I did not know until this vid that they were 2 separate things)
- NorCal/yeah, basically Oregon
Silicon Valley = the south part of the Bay Area, roughly San Jose :)
Wine Country usually refers to Napa and Sonoma, which are North Bay (north of SF across the Golden Gate bridge) but can also refer to the Temecula area (between SD and LA)
Central California is where a lot of the agriculture is, as well as Fresno, Bakersfield, and once you get up north, Stockton and Sacramento.
You should come up to NorCal sometime! We’ve got some good stuff :)
@@catxtrallways Maybe? I only lived there for a few years during peak pandemic haha. It’s at the very south tip of Riverside County.
Gee, and all this time I just thought of it as the home of the Hells Angels, Black Panthers, Crips, Bloods, and Sotel 13. Manson Family and SLA too, but they were flash in the pan.
We got some nice trees too. So tall it takes two men and a boy to see to the top of 'em.
I mean, that's more detail than I'd give NY, which is both my home state and also I'm from the upstate part away from the city lmao.
Yeah ngl I'm from California and that's pretty fair. Obviously I could be more detailed but this is way more accurate a description than I could give of any other state so who am I to judge
Id say anything Bakersfield up is NorCal. Anything above Tahoe is the Baja Oregon thing. LA Area is SoCal. Anything east of the LA area is desert. Anything South is San Diego. Disneyland is LA. Anything Petaluma to Monterey is Bay Area. Oakland is just a no.
LOL... That's pretty much what I hear too as a former Californian now living elsewhere.
Baja Oregon. 🤣🤣🤣
As a non American this seems like an accurate map. I see no problems. I think those are all the things I know about California and then some.
I french so for me california somewhere west coast by the sea. There's Hollywood there. And that's were crazy ex girlfriend takes place.
To be fair, that's more than most Americans would be able to say about any random region of France.
@@Brandyalla I have that much information about maybe 5 or 6 states out of the 50.
Now I want to travel all the way from the East coast, just to go see the 'robot boobs.'🤣
As an Ohioan, this seems accurate.
As someone who lives half the time in the Inland Empire, I've basically come to terms with telling non-Californians that it's "A bit east of LA" or if they're older or more vintage-vibey, "a bit west of Palm Springs". Hell, even a lot of native Californians look at me blankly when I say "the IE".
There’s Trees, San Francisco with Mountains to the East, Silicon Valley with Grass to the East, Suburbs with Something to the East I Dunno, Los Angeles with Racism to the East and San Diego with Mexico to the East.
Baha Oregon got me rolling 😂 I've lived in OR all my life. Northern Cali is gorgeous just like it's neighbor up top!
I lived in San Diego for a year, and I have NO memory of robot boobs lol
@@catxtrallways Definitely drive up the coast a bit, but I guess it wasn't that far. Thanks!
No wonder haha, I lived in Temecula for a few years and in CA my whole life and never saw these! Pretty much only use I5.
California born and raised. It's not too far off lol. I have to admit that the pea soup, cows, and Fresno bit were quite accurate. I'd add that just above the giant boobs along the coast is also part of racist LA, and racist LA to the east is more like racist oranges.
I am a native Californian, and this isn't entirely wrong.... I mean, it's not completely right. There's some stuff that could be tweaked. Like like that SF vibe kinda stretches down the coast all the way to the bottom of Big Sur, there's the whole desert rat vibe out in the hell hole that is Death Valley, Mojave, and Joshua Tree that is basically the same as Arizona and lower Nevada. And then there is Blythe. That place should be a country of its own, because no one should want it here. Just clump it in with Bakersfield and throw them both out of the union. Just disgusting.
What most people don't realize is that the big tourist places have nothing on the real California experience. Visit the small farm towns in the central valley and go to restaurants where you can't pronounce the name of the place. Use Google translate to decide what you want on the menu, then just sit back and enjoy the exquisite cuisine and the amazing hospitality of California's diverse and rich culture. Those tiny little hole-in-the-wall businesses, and more importantly the people who run them, are what makes California beautiful.
Well that, and the amazing landscapes. We have everything from temperate rainforest to snowy winter mountains to diverse desert ecosystems, and everything in between. Enough diversity of landscapes in this one state for an entire continent. Don't like the weather or scenery? Drive a few hours in any direction and you will be somewhere completely different, while still being in the same state. Yeah, California has its problems, and I will end up leaving because of some of those problems, but holy fuck it is amazing and beautiful.
Try explaining New England to non-New Englanders 😂
I’m from California and moved to Boston for grad school a few years ago (moved back since). Such a culture shock, especially meeting folks from New England! I learned that I knew absolutely nothing about the area haha.
I distinctly remember when I first moved there and would introduce myself, “I’m from California, are you from around here?” and they would say “Oh no, I’m from New Hampshire” 😅 Very eye-opening to the different social geography and mindset about distance!
I mean, yeah.
You brought so many memories mentioning the robot boobs (or the tits as marines call them). So many horrible, painful memories of humps and route reccies and PT runs. Thank you for that. Sincerely.
😂 This is hilarious even for me. I don't get half the connections, cos I never been there or know people from there. I am not even in that continent 😅 but still so hilarious
Pretty accurate, but just change the eastern half of “San Francisco” to “racist San Francisco,” and it’s spot on.
Sounds about right honestly
Pea soup, cows, and Fresno. Truth.
Every time we drove past the robot boobs my mom would tell us to duck so we wouldn't get radiation poisoning. Ah ignorance.
Which part is the desert?
The pea soup!!! 🤣🤣
Dumb question - is this referring to the marine layer that exists about 22/24 hours a day?
@@elizabethdavis5661 Not a dumb question at all-there is a famous restaurant named Pea Soup Anderson’s along one of the major highways that runs the length of CA in a town called Solvang that is like visiting Dutch Disneyland (a themed downtown area with windmills and wooden clogs for sale everywhere)
@@Wee_Catalyst ah, thanks! I lived in Santa Maria and thought it might be a reference to the marine layer along the coast being as thick as pea soup.
BWAHAHAHA! Accurate.
Ok, but what's pea soup?
Thick fog
@@mommyofkittens4809 oh, got it
I think it's referring to a restaurant called Pea Soup Andersen's in Buellton.
@@chantristrammell6088 Mommyofkittens is wrong-it’s referencing a famous restaurant named Anderson’s that served pea soup in a town called Solvang along one of the major freeways that runs the length of the state
Solvang’s downtown area is like visiting Dutch Disneyland with windmills and wooden clog souvenirs for sale everywhere
DefinitelyNOT the fog or whatever 😂
I was really surprised to see Pea Soup Andersen’s referenced here lol! He must know a lot if people who’ve driven through the state before
Orange County and all the eastern counties disappeared lol.
Why does the sign for San Francisco look like a H*tler cross? 😳
what exactly is clean/racist Los Angeles? i can't figure out which area that is.
You missed the inland empire
But are they WRONG?!😂😂😂
California is the Florida Keys if the Keys were an independent state
BRO I THOUGHT THE SAN FRANCISCO THING WAS A SW*STIKA I WAS SO CONCERNED-
Where's the rash of communist party meetings? (Sarcasm)
……ok?
dont forget the homeless junkies
Yup. That's what I've learned that people think about California.
I was part of an online group back when it was BBSes, and there was a play by post RPG where the PCs all met in a suburb of Los Angeles prior to departing on a ship, and it was legit fascinating to read the descriptions of what the other players believed the area to be like. For the most part, all of them seemed to think the entire area looked like a cross between Skid Row and Gotham. 🤣