This is how people in LA dismissively refer to the Bay Area while they’re drinking their champagne and eating their fancy dinners. Upstate. Like Berkeley is Syracuse or something.
So, how do we feel about this? Perhaps it’s finally time for that Great War of California to happen.
Huh? I thought we were the people who drank champagne and ate fancy dinners! When did that</em change?
Hm. Bad HTML. Bad me.
Flush twice, So Cal needs the water.
Come on, you know no one in LA hates on SF. SF is the one that’s full of snobs…as further proven by your stupid post.
So people from LA are assholes cuz they said “upstate” just like people in NY? what?
who said anything about assholes?
I think the words “dismissively” and the suggestion of war might lead one to think that this post casts southern Californians in a negative light.
You’re from Pasadena, I grew up in Long Beach and I think we both know that LA for life has a point – outside of Dodger games Southern Californians have nothing but good things to say about the Bay and try to visit as much as possible. Bay Areans, on the other hand, love talking shit on LA.
I could care less how either feel about each other, but it’s safe to say these are the facts.
Yeah, but those people outside the Dodgers games always say “Frisco.” That shit is offensive. Fucking assholes!
Kids who grew up in the Mission call it Frisco.
“San Fran” is fighting words though.
it’s amusing how a comment as innocuous as referring to the Northern part of a state as ‘upstate’ can trigger the raging inferiority complex of some Northern Californians.
Inferiority? You’re joking, right? It’s more just a deep scorn for the cultural wasteland that is socal.
i can’t tell if you’re genuinely or sarcastically reinforcing my point.
never heard of a “raging inferiority complex” before. Nice try though. I’d say most people here are pretty content.
see this, this is exactly what i am talking about.
I don’t even understand what this statement is based on. Did you overhear it somewhere? Who are these people in the picture?
LA is like Nebraska-fornia in some ways. Just ignore it.
Well said.
HA! People in SF love to be self-righteous about everything! It’s so entertaining! Life isn’t so horrible here to be complaining all the time, people. Lighten up and stop ruining it with your bad attitudes. OR, just move to NY already so you can disdainfully look down on everyone with less money, style, birthright, and opportunity than you. And let the rest of us enjoy SF. (Was Berkeley really that bad, anyway?)
The chicks shower in LA, I am partial to relocating.
Yeah, chicks bro. Chicks.
yeah, sweet t.
CHICKS
don’t overthink your instinct. san franciscans tend to think that their highly evolved brains and sense of self-worth will trump the power of a beautiful woman. wrong, bitch.
there’s a reason why san francisco is called “the city of 6s.” i swear, i love living in this city, it’s fucking elitist cunts like you that make me want to hate it.
Wasn’t really thinking about instinct at all. I was thinking about an overly tanned guy with a goatee, gelled hair, and a dope Ed Hardy tee – one size too small – standing in a line outside an empty night club saying, “Bro, the chicks in this club are, like, 9s all…day…long. I’m serious, Bro. Not a 6 in the house.”
And then I was thinking about that very same guy, later that very same evening, lying awake in a bed in dark room. Alone. Staring up at the ceiling. A ray of light shining in from the street lamp outside the window illuminates a single tear’s trail down the side of his bronzed, leathery face. And as the crushing loneliness smothers the younger night’s bravado, mere seconds before the spark of epiphany has its chance to catch and save him from himself, he falls asleep and dreams empty dreams.
That was epic bro. Beautiful prose. You have a future in broetry.
Hmmmmm-Kay then. But what’s with the creepy pic?
Anything south of The City is So Cal to me.
as an la native and sf resident, i must say:
while in la:
- never thought twice about sf. and when did, it was always love and positive regard
- cali love is cali love.
reality in sf:
- no one outside of sf ever talks about sf. period.
- i’d rather deal w/the smug than the smog
- true religion jeans? still? enough said.
- sf is about 10 years ahead of everyone (in their own mind), but about 10 years behind in everyone elses (music, fashion, art, etc…all reactionary).
yeah let’s make this simple.
nobody from California, any part of California, refers to northern California as “upstate.” but about half of the people in LA are not from California.
people in southern California do, however, refer to northern California as “up North” suggesting that there is nothing north of northern California worth bothering about, which is the opposite sentiment of the one suggested by the blog post.