Our front yard

GlueGuy · Aug 17, 2001

I don't mean the collective "we", I just mean our family. Kind of a north-south rivalry thing.

The GlueGuy

GlueGuy · Aug 17, 2001

Only transplants call it North California

Good one /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif....

There have been several "movements" over the years to break Ca. into 2, 3 and even 8 different states at one time or another.

The 2-way was split somewhere between San Jose and Salinas. The 3-way split divided it into North, Central, and South. The 8-way split divided it into regions, and made the Bay area and LA separate states on their own.

I think the transplants way outnumber the natives these days.

The GlueGuy

scruffy · Aug 17, 2001

IMHO, California ends about 3 miles south of Santa Rosa, I don't know what the call the rest of that stuff south of there.
My wife is a native (hatched) down in SoCal's most infamous San Diego....it ain't California from my humble 4 years or so living in that mess.

glennmac · Aug 17, 2001

Scruffy, it may be more correct to say that Oregon ends 3 miles south of Santa Rosa.

pdxman · Aug 17, 2001

Up here, we call North California...South Oregon.

JATO_RaT · Aug 17, 2001

I'm sure your right about that Glueguy, but then alot of the transplant folks are great people, you seem to be one of them. Rat...

scruffy · Aug 17, 2001

Glennmac, Pdxman, I stand humbly corrected! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Having grown up in a combination of SWOregon and NWCalifornia, I agree that the two have more in common than the area south of Santa Rosa.....in fact, I could suggest moving that line to just north of the northern city limits of Ukiah. SoCal has been creeping northward as the city folk keep expanding their bedrooms.

Edited by scruffy on 08/17/01 05:59 PM (server time).

Harv · Aug 17, 2001

Rat -

Did quite a bit of diving all up and down the Monterey area. Beautiful place.

I don't golf any more, especially since the kid I loaned my clubs to, in turn, loaned them to someone else. Never saw them again. /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif Ione is getting pretty close to my tractor property (outside Sutter Creek), but I've never seen the golf course.

GlueGuy · Aug 18, 2001

Scruffy

Although that area from just south of Watsonville to just north of Santa Barbara is still pretty nice. We just spent a few days down there going through Big Sur and such, and it was a very pleasant trip.

Harv

I just say no to golf. My Dad & Brother tried to get me interested, but it never clicked with me. Also, when you talk about Central California, I always tend to think in terms of Central Valley.

One thing's for sure. It's a really big state. Anti-homogenous too.

The GlueGuy

mdbarb · Aug 18, 2001

ouch I'm just over the marin border - It seems like country - acres looking out on the petaluma river- have to admit it gets a bit dense (in many ways) further south, but I like having the option of San Francisco fairly close for that change acoupla times a year. and I challenge anyone to beat the climate. I grew up in the military and lived just about everywhere in the US. Northern California can not be beat. (But don't tell anyone OK?)