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canada wishes. actually we do we might become bigger then russia then.
This seems about right.
And I don’t even live there.
Yeah, this is how most people view the US….
yeah i have a feeling Canada does not wish to be Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. woo strudel and really old rocks?
Hey… leave my strudel alone.
Oh my… That sounds bad.
Umm…Canada wishes they could be as awesome as us Minnesotans.
minnesota rocks
but Canada must want to me MI.
er, be Michigan.
It’s true, sadly. Although I’m not sure that most Californians know where New York is exactly and either believe that the entire state is actually New York City or are not aware that there is even a New York state at all. It’s more of a vague idea of a general area known as the “East Coast” which also somehow includes Chicago. That said, I love California and still proudly live there.
Mmmmkay, seriously, there are smart californians who know about what new york is, etc. But concept that follows each region on that chart is on the nose.
Know what’s funny? It goes both ways. Some urban New Yorkers think that us West Coasters still don’t have cars and ride around like cowboys.
Lolz @ the East Coast including Chicago. This is a funny graph, but I’ve lived in almost all of the regions of the US (including California), and IMHO, I think that most Californians are brain-dead, plasticated, latte-drinkin’, Hummer-drivin’, pseudo-vegan assholes. Sorry, it’s beautiful and all, especially the redwood forests, but I can’t wait for it to fall off into the ocean.
I love you.
That’s fine. We can’t wait to be away from the rest of the nutballs! Though we’d happily take the east coast and Canada with us.
pretty accurate. very nice.
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Oooo. This just BEGS for a retort from people from non-California areas.
I dunno Cali… a lot of those religious nutballs are in the quasi-vegas area too. They’re more of the “marry your niece who is also your half-sister” variety though, I guess.
Sounds like W. Virginia… only it’d be your real sister, who is also your mom. And don’t forget uncle Daddy!
If you substitute “left coast nutbars” for “awesome” and “Our Southern Cousins”
for “Canada” this is how most Canadians view America too!
I’m from California annnddd….. its rather sad how true this is. I wouldn’t have known it was true until I saw this but I quickly was nodding and laughing.
This is pretty true. I’m from Cali and have friends who think like this. One of my friends even said “Kansas? I thought that was just in Wizard of Oz.” The only things I would change is add apples to Washington and add in Chicago.
Besides Cali, we think Hawaii is cool too.
Heh, as a Kansas native going to school in Chicago, I had a housemate actually say “Wichita? I thought that was just a line in the Jayhawk song”
/facepalm
Heh. I live in Oklahoma, and people from the west and east coast still ask me if i ride a horse and live in a teepee.
The most annoying thing about telling people you’re from Oklahoma is when people start singing the song. I’m impressed when someone knows more than 40% of the words, though.
umm does that say Coffee??? I need a remedial geography course I guess
Coffee = Starbucks = Seattle (I’m guessing here… but I think that’s the general idea.)
We don’t grow it, just serve it like its going out of style.
Yes it does… Starbucks
I’m from New York State… upstate, near Syracuse, if anyone knows where that is.
“Are you near the City?” asked my ex-girlfriend’s father, or some such.
“Nah… upstate, a fair distance away. Geographic center of the state.”
“Could you see the smoke from the twin towers?”
*headdesk* “Like, FIVE HOURS away.” Smoke literally can’t go high enough in the atmosphere to overcome the curvature of the earth between me and NYC.
Anyhow, from the East Coast… Texas looks right, Florida looks right, and “Religions Nutballs” doesn’t start until you’re south of D.C.
One tiny discrepancy: Texas has equal parts fake cowboys and real cowboys. Hey, someone’s gotta fuel this country’s love of beef.
My brother lives in Pennsylvania and he’s doing enough fueling as it is. XD
I know all too well. As in I now attend SUNY Cortland…. but as I spent my first 20 years in CA… This is pretty accurate for how THEY see the rest of the country.
I live near Albany, NY and it really amuses me how New Yorkers refer to everything north of Westchester County as “upstate”
There’s the famous New Yorker cartoon showing a New Yorker’s view of the US. This California view is equally funny.
Hey, I’m from Watkins Glen. I joined the military shortly after 9-11, and I got asked that same question over and over. and when I told people I grew up in the country, they said: “But you said you were from New York”
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What’s funny is I’ve gotten something similar living in CA. People who ask if you know certain movie stars when they find out you live in Cali. It’s like Hellooo, I live almost 400 miles away from Hollywood. :/
haha, yes! Personally, I think Northern CA and Southern CA should have been made into TWO states…
another thing… I’ve never heard anyone who lives in California call it “Cali”
Seriously–This is so true. No one says Cali.
Seriously … I’m from Orange County, and everyone I tell asks if it’s like the show ‘O.C.’ The other one I get is they then ask if I know their cousin Mike, who also lives somewhere in the state of California.
We have the same problem in “downstate” Illinois. When I lived in Springfield (4.5 hours south of Chicago - actually closer to St. Louis than Chicago), I had to argue with people about whether it was the capitol, and explain that, no, it is not a suburb of Chicago - which usually leads to no, I did not live on a farm. Of course, I also fielded a lot of questions about the Simpsons, but you have to have a strange kind of respect for someone who will actually ask you if their favorite *cartoon* is filmed in your hometown….
as someone who comes from the chicago suburbs…i am surprised you did not live on a farm!
XD I’m technically from the suburbs and I live about a mile from many farms, so even the suburbs aren’t free from farms in Illinois. Then again, I live on the outskirts of suburbia near Aurora in Yorkville.
I know exactly what you mean… I’m from Louisiana; one of my best friends lives in Shreveport. That’s something like six hours northwest of New Orleans. She goes to college in San Antonio now, and people always ask her if Katrina damaged her house.
Now mind, I live only an hour north of N.O. and we just had the power go out.
I live in Oregon and this is exactly how I think of America! Except I don’t think of California as awesome.
I’ve lived at least once in each of those geographic areas, and that’s still exactly how I view America. Nicely done! Especially since I somehow landed and stayed in Southern Cali, which has an awesome factor of actual = -15, perceived = +100.
There should be a little dot in the middle of the “Vegas Somewhere” section called “Skiing” or “Weed” or some crap like that. Goodness knows that half of Colorado is made up of Californian transplants. There must be some reason they keep coming here, and since skiing and smoking is mostly what I’ve seen them do….
Denver is the sex-change capital of the world. I’m not sure if that’s related or not… but…
lmao! So true about the skiing and weed.
I’m from AZ & have a LOT of experience with Californians… this map seems fairly true except for one thing…. I don’t get why Calis would find Canada awesome? I mean, i personally love Canada, but in my experience Calis are a little too shallow to appreciate the more subtle awesomeness of our Northern neighbors. I’m just sayin.
As a Californian–one of the realistic, sane ones, mind–I can tell you it’s because they believe Canada’s some sort of liberal wonderland where there are no problems at all and everyone holds hands and sings all day.
…I’ve never been to Canada, so I can’t say whether or not that’s the case, but that’s what most Californians seem to believe.
I’m from California as well and I honestly don’t see ALL of the country like this. xD
But it’s true in a funny stereotype sort of way.
But hey man… I have a friend in almost every state in the Union (I think I still need Rhode Island and New Jersey… help me out here. xD).
Us Californian’s aren’t that bad are we? :/
As a native North Dakotan, I can testify that most of the country (not just California) thinks we’re Canadian. I also have a lot of Canadian friends who would be happy to claim us. And I’d rather be affiliated with Canada than with California, anyway…
How’s this? Was chatting w/a gent from an online dating service. Said he was from Chicago. Asked where I was from (keep in mind this was stated clearly in my profile). Said I am in North Dakota ….his next brilliant question? Oh yeah.. that’s in Cali…. right? …. hmmmm
Texas is definitely NOT full of fake cowboys. If you want to see fake cowboys go to Colorado. They’re all over the place up there.
Well, we don’t have many fake cowboys, but there is enough to get annoying.
haha ya i live in texas and there arent many the more annoying thing is the mexican “gangsta’s” but ya the cowboy thing does get annoying i also hate it when people attomtically thinks we have an accent >.< only texans who really have accents are west and east (old people mosly)
That is COMPLETELY inaccurate for me and most of the people I know.
Of course it is. Most sweeping generalities are extremely inaccurate. But people still make them anyway.
Of course it is. If they made an accurate chart, it wouldn’t be funny. Funny > Accuracy around here. Come to think of it, Funny > Accuracy just about anywhere.
P.S. And yes, hon. It’s me.
and i bet you never saw a priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar together either? well better start removing all those jokes from history…
Native Californian who’s been living in Oklahoma for nearly a dozen years, and this is *still* how I see the country.
Only thing I don’t understand about this map is, does the creator generally mean the northeast as loud and obnoxious or just NY? The arrow seems to be pointing closer to RI or MA.
I have one other thing to add. It does depend on whether you are from Southern California or from Northern California. Northern Californians think Southern California is Mexico and Southern Californians think Northern California is full of hippies.
Everyone agrees 909ers are lame.
We Socal ppl generally call Norcal ppl “whack”. That sums it up.
Well, the 909-ers think you are lame too…
Hi–has everyone forgotten that we have a Central California? I’m from Fresno and this part of California is really hot! Ha! Literally, it’s 110 degrees this minute as I type! Calif. is still awesome.
I disagree!
That’s nice, dear.
californians only know the locations of the five states that matter…….california, florida, hawaii, texas, and new york…..the other states are in there somwhere lol
They know where New York *City* is
I doubt they know much about the state at all.