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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been in the south Bay Area for the past three years and am dying to get back to DC and send my DS to a private college on the east coast l if I can convince my parents to help me out with the costs (single mother here). This is a rant about all the tacky horrible crap I hate about California which makes me miss the gentility of the South and the northeast.

First, the kids my DS has made friends with in middle school and freshman year of high school (which was last year) talk like wannabe gangsters or rappers despite growing up in a nice Bay Area suburb. From my friends who have sent their kids to the UCs (UC Berkeley, UCLA and UCSB are represented among their kids), this is something that just continues into the college years apparently. DS has started to invite his friends to a night out to "kick it" (apparently this means "hang out"). Nobody says "yeah", they say "yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuh". Music is "ill" or "sick" (???????). Nobody dresses properly! The boys think a t shirt with no collar and sandals is an outfit. Who wears sandals in any setting except a beach, you may ask. Well, this is something that Californians think is acceptable. And the girls bare their midriffs with cropped tops and wear torn tattered denim shorts that barely cover their ass. Oh, and flip flops.

The informal culture at work drives me crazy too. I used to be a lawyer, now work as a consultant. In DC I was used to wearing pencil skirts and suits. And hose and heels. In California everyone looked at me weirdly.

You go to a nice restaurant on a date with a professional man and he's wearing a T-shirt.

People here have lots of money but are extremely tacky about it. Bragging hard enough to make you wince (how can a man not CRINGE to hear himself name the price and make of his Rolex Submarine?), wearing clothes or accessories that flash brand logos way too obviously, blatantly ask you what you do for a living, and are piled with their old insecurities. I know this breed is infesting NoVa, but I grew up in [i]proper[/i] Virginia and spent most of my student and professional life in DC. Nobody behaved like this.

Everything in California is tacky and people here have no class. I am sad my DS is growing up here.[/quote]

Who are you!?!?  Everything you've just written is EXACTLY what happens in DC.  I too used to live in California - Northern and Southern and I can tell you that kids are the same on both coasts, and they say the same things, listen to the same music as well.  As a matter of fact, if its happening in California right now - it will be the next hottest thing in DC in about 6 months.

Get over yourself.  you sound like an old, angry bastard.[/quote]

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