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Having grown up here in Silicon Valley, I find it extremely boring. So boring in fact that I'm making my move out east.
by alaskamiller 19y ago
Having grown up here in Silicon Valley, I find it extremely boring. So boring in fact that I'm making my move out east.
- ardit33 19y agoI do agree with you. Except SF, and maybe Berkeley, the rest of California has been very very disapointing. Coming from the Northeast, I found the car culture and suburbia life very boring in CA. Also, for some really wierd reason, I find california girls boring, and much much less intellectual than what you find on the east coast. There are lots of pluses of living in here also, but lots of negatives also. The cool and awesome "California" image that is perpetuated in the media, is just a illusion. Cali has the climate and posibilities to be more like the Italy/France of the USA, but unfortunately the people squandered that place by building high-way monsters everywhere.
- alaskamiller 19y agocalifornia is basically los angeles, sanfran, san diego, and silicon valley. everythig else is inconsenquentual.
- nanijoe 19y agoThats a lot of places for one state
- nostrademons 19y agoYeah. Up here in the Northeast, New England is basically Boston. All Massachusetts/New Hampshire/Rhode Island/eastern Connecticut of it. (Vermont and Maine are nowhere, and western Connecticut is NYC.)
- vlad 19y agoHow did you like Amherst (the region) compared to the outskirts of Boston?
- nostrademons 19y agoDepends what you want. The pioneer valley (Amherst/Northampton/etc.) is incredibly beautiful. OTOH, there's not all that much to do. If you like outdoorsy stuff, hiking, woodlands, and rolling fields, Amherst is for you. If you want a bustling social scene and lots of people with common interests, stick to Boston. There are a couple of nice coffeeshops & bars in both Amherst and Northampton, but these are towns with a population of 7000 vs. 600,000 for Boston. Personally, I can't stand living without some green in my life, so I loved Amherst. But I was in college, and it's rare that college students lack a social life. I have friends who stayed behind after graduation and some of them complained about being bored (though one of them ended up in Vermont instead, go figure).
- imsteve 19y agoExactly, there's Boston but then what? The east coast is terrible for the most part. Girls uglier in most places too.
- ardit33 19y ago"Thats a lot of places for one state" -- Not if you consider the huge distance from each other. SF to LA 6.5 hr of driving, SF to San Diego, over 9 hrs. In the same distance in europe you would have Rome, Milano, Paris, Berlin, Zurich, Vienna, Frankfurt.... and so many other cities in between.
- aswanson 19y agoI was out for there a while ago for an interview. Are there any females or nightlife? For your average single male in his 20's early 30's, other than the possibility of getting rich, being a cube drone in a city populated by (mostly male) cube drones is not an attractive prospect. It is very close to my definition of hell.
- menloparkbum 19y agobeing a cube drone anywhere is hellish. I'd take Palo Alto over Scranton. SF vs. Boston, I'm going to have to go with SF. Boston vs. Palo Alto... I'd probably go with Boston. SF vs. New York... that's a tougher decision.