Anonymous wrote:I agree with OP. California is tacky. Come home OP!!!

Anonymous wrote:Yours mom's tacky, OP.

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Anonymous wrote: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 proper 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.

WTF? DC is the mecca of 'what do you do'. Even in NYC they ask it less.

CA asks 'what do you do' way less often than here. You must be on that sweet mendocino purp.

I don't hear much of bay people flaunting wrist watches etc - that's a NY banker thing. What they do flaunt is expensive eco-outdoor treks and vacations - climbing xxx mountain or doing xxx trek that obviously costs a lot of money (and time) to do.

The clothing culture you are right, but I think there is a nice inbetween. Suit to work everyday is stupid. But ratty company t-shirt and cargo shorts and flipflops is stupid as well.

"wiggerisms" are rife in all suburban schools, this is not a 'bay issue'.

The tacky money thing actually has ramped up a lot post financial crisis when lots of north east banking/consulting types MOVED to the bay area and brought that culture.

There was an article about this i read when a veteran of the bay tech scene says: "beware of when the pretty people arrive".

You and OP are both screamingly racist.

Anonymous wrote: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 proper 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.