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I'm on the east coast as well (Boston). Although I dislike San Francisco for taking away talent and attention from Boston I wouldn't consider them weird compare

by agentgt 10y ago

I'm on the east coast as well (Boston). Although I dislike San Francisco for taking away talent and attention from Boston I wouldn't consider them weird compared to local Cambridgites. You want oddity come to Cambridge MA. To be honest though I love weird. The major weird thing I don't like about SF is the climate (like why is hot during the wrong times of year).

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I didn't say the people were weird. But the climate is unpleasant, and you can drive for miles and still be in the same state. And even "northern" california (I believe SF qualifies) is pretty far south, so it hardly ever snows. And all the landscapes look pretty ordinary, and then you suddenly see a palm tree (although that's more LA than SF). And I do love Cambridge. Why? Bookstores. Bookstores everywhere. If you're looking for a book, and you can't find it in Cambridge, than you're probably not looking hard enough. And there's the MIT Press bookstore as well: Their CS section houses SICP, EPL, TAPL, The Little Books, and countless other excellent books on one row of shelves. If that's not awesome, I don't know what is. I know that as a Cambridgeite, you know many more reasons why Cambridge is cool, but frankly, having a lot of bookstores is pretty high on my list of ways that places can be awesome. And yes, it totally sucks that so much talent is on the other side of the country. Living in the New Haven suburbs, I can say that it's hard to get a good pizza most places. And that's the least of the reasons it sucks.
- agentgt 10y ago
  Totally agree with the landscape (SF) and the bookstores (Cambridge). I love hobyy/game stores as well (we have one in Waltham as well as many in Cambridge). I hope they do this as on the east coast some time. I'm a long time ADOM and Crawl player. I really only play rogue like computer games. I would post links to my crawl profile but it is rather embarrassing how much time I have spent playing crawl. I'm sad to miss this event.
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    I'm embarassed by how much time I haven't spent playing nethack. I mean, I haven't even gotten below about L5. I need to up my game :-).
- kbenson 10y ago
  Eh, when we want snow, we drive to Tahoe. It's just a few hours away from most populated areas in Northern California. I think most Californians think that way. Snow is fun to visit, but we wouldn't want to live there... > you can drive for miles and still be in the same state ... all the landscapes look pretty ordinary, and then you suddenly see a palm tree Yeah, CA covers a lot of area.You get the Sierras, the vast central valley, the coastal cities, and the small mountains and rolling hills in the North. LA is in a desert (historically, so even before much of the state turned into a desert recently), so there's definitely a different climate there than the rest of the state.
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    >I think most Californians think that way. Snow is fun to visit, but we wouldn't want to live there... We northeasterners think the same way about heat, I suppose.
    - kbenson 10y ago
      Fair enough, but that's why we cluster at the coast. Much more temperate. :) Although, the last few years haven't been as hot, IIRC. Growing up, I remember when we would have multiple periods in the summer where it was in the low 100's for 3-5 days in a row, and that doesn't seem to be happening in recent years (but I could just be remembering outliers). That said, 100 degrees here isn't the same as 100 degrees there. It's all dry heat here. I would take a dry 100 over a muggy, humid 85 any day (but that's what I grew up with). I've been to the east coast a few times in the summer, and walking out of an air conditioned building into the humidity is still something I distinctly remember more than twenty years later.
      - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
        Yeah. It hits you like a wave :-D. And the house I grew up in didn't have AC for 10 years. At all. If we wanted to be cool, our best chance was either the basement, or our neighbor's houses.

by agentgt 10y ago

qwertyuiop924 10y ago

I didn't say the people were weird. But the climate is unpleasant, and you can drive for miles and still be in the same state. And even "northern" california (I believe SF qualifies) is pretty far south, so it hardly ever snows. And all the landscapes look pretty ordinary, and then you suddenly see a palm tree (although that's more LA than SF). And I do love Cambridge. Why? Bookstores. Bookstores everywhere. If you're looking for a book, and you can't find it in Cambridge, than you're probably not looking hard enough. And there's the MIT Press bookstore as well: Their CS section houses SICP, EPL, TAPL, The Little Books, and countless other excellent books on one row of shelves. If that's not awesome, I don't know what is. I know that as a Cambridgeite, you know many more reasons why Cambridge is cool, but frankly, having a lot of bookstores is pretty high on my list of ways that places can be awesome. And yes, it totally sucks that so much talent is on the other side of the country. Living in the New Haven suburbs, I can say that it's hard to get a good pizza most places. And that's the least of the reasons it sucks.

agentgt 10y ago
Totally agree with the landscape (SF) and the bookstores (Cambridge). I love hobyy/game stores as well (we have one in Waltham as well as many in Cambridge). I hope they do this as on the east coast some time. I'm a long time ADOM and Crawl player. I really only play rogue like computer games. I would post links to my crawl profile but it is rather embarrassing how much time I have spent playing crawl. I'm sad to miss this event.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  I'm embarassed by how much time I haven't spent playing nethack. I mean, I haven't even gotten below about L5. I need to up my game :-).
kbenson 10y ago
Eh, when we want snow, we drive to Tahoe. It's just a few hours away from most populated areas in Northern California. I think most Californians think that way. Snow is fun to visit, but we wouldn't want to live there... > you can drive for miles and still be in the same state ... all the landscapes look pretty ordinary, and then you suddenly see a palm tree Yeah, CA covers a lot of area.You get the Sierras, the vast central valley, the coastal cities, and the small mountains and rolling hills in the North. LA is in a desert (historically, so even before much of the state turned into a desert recently), so there's definitely a different climate there than the rest of the state.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  >I think most Californians think that way. Snow is fun to visit, but we wouldn't want to live there... We northeasterners think the same way about heat, I suppose.
  - kbenson 10y ago
    Fair enough, but that's why we cluster at the coast. Much more temperate. :) Although, the last few years haven't been as hot, IIRC. Growing up, I remember when we would have multiple periods in the summer where it was in the low 100's for 3-5 days in a row, and that doesn't seem to be happening in recent years (but I could just be remembering outliers). That said, 100 degrees here isn't the same as 100 degrees there. It's all dry heat here. I would take a dry 100 over a muggy, humid 85 any day (but that's what I grew up with). I've been to the east coast a few times in the summer, and walking out of an air conditioned building into the humidity is still something I distinctly remember more than twenty years later.
    - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
      Yeah. It hits you like a wave :-D. And the house I grew up in didn't have AC for 10 years. At all. If we wanted to be cool, our best chance was either the basement, or our neighbor's houses.