Predicto Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley and Cal Tech are pretty hard to beat. If the comparison becomes "all colleges from Maine to Florida" vs Colleges in California no doubt the East Coast is going to win. Can't deny it, but it's not really a fair comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGreenistheBest Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Favorite cities that I've lived in in order (in the US): Pittsburgh Boston DC Colorado Springs Raleigh (eh) Montgomery (blows hard) I'd love to be able to add a couple west coast cities to this list to see where they stand, but it hasn't been in the cards yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalSkins Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 If the comparison becomes "all colleges from Maine to Florida" vs Colleges in California no doubt the East Coast is going to win. Can't deny it, but it's not really a fair comparison. He was comparing Massachusetts by itself to the entire west coast. California on its own would beat out the schools of any other single state. When you look at academics, research, sports and overall college life there is no comparison to the top schools that are here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooka Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Go to Aqua or Farralon or Swan Oyster Depot or Yabbies or or Pesce or Catch... not to tourist traps. Oh man, the Oyster Depot is food of the gods. :hungry:hippie I knew I smelled a comment like that coming from ya. HEY HIPPIE, THE DEAD BROKE UP!! GET A JOB!! :laugh: Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Oh man, the Oyster Depot is food of the gods. :hungry:Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man. tune in, turn off, trip out. or however that goes. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Pressure Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 German, not so much, but who goes hunting for German food? I know where to find a good bratwurst, and that's all I need from Germany. I always try to find a few places with good traditional german food. They have meat/potato based dishes that are amazing, and no it's not all brats. Oh and seriously Knodel (potato dumplings) are amazing. Oh and I like that heavy italian food. Then again some people think great spaghetti should be in nothing but a tomato sauce, or in a very light sauce, some want strictly a meat sauce with ground beef, some strictly want meatballs, The same goes for Lasagna, some people like a certain layer or order or special ingredient more than others. To say however that any pizza in San Fran is better than Chicago or NY is crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 I always try to find a few places with good traditional german food. They have meat/potato based dishes that are amazing, and no it's not all brats.Oh and seriously Knodel (potato dumplings) are amazing. There are a couple of good German restaurants here. That's all we need. Oh and I like that heavy italian food. Then again some people think great spaghetti should be in nothing but a tomato sauce, or in a very light sauce, some want strictly a meat sauce with ground beef, some strictly want meatballs, The same goes for Lasagna, some people like a certain layer or order or special ingredient more than others. To say however that any pizza in San Fran is better than Chicago or NY is crazy. That's why I didn't say it. Our pizza is decent (better than DC IMO) but it isn't New York or Chicago. No one else can match those two places for pizza. But how are their burritos? Their pad see ew noodles? Their sushi? Their papusas and crepes and chana masala? Their local breads and cheeses and fruits? etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedskinDaddy Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 You don't really want to try to put VA up against CA college wise. Fortunately for East Coast supporters, they get to claim New England. Really? CalTech, Stanford, Cal Berkeley? That's just academically. Lest we forget, UCLA (yeah!) is athletically the first and I believe still the only major college with 100 NCAA championships. I'd say CA is pretty strong both in the classroom and on the field. EDIT: techboy, I think I misread your post. My apologies. Someone after you alluded to CA universities as possibly inferior though - grrrr... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 All of America's history is over here. We have Florida if you want sunny weather and beaches and the megalopolis is untouched. EAST SIIIDE. We have the Ivy League don't bring up colleges into the argument. Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, UPenn, Cornell, Yale etc. And don't forget MIT which offsets Cal-Tech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Pressure Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 That's why I didn't say it. Our pizza is decent (better than DC IMO) but it isn't New York or Chicago. No one else can match those two places for pizza. But how are their burritos? Their pad see ew noodles? Their sushi? Their papusas and crepes and chana masala? Their local breads and cheeses and fruits? etc... I don't like any of that stuff, so I couldn't tell you :laugh: I still see nobody contested the point that the east coast isn't perpetually on fire, shaking itself apart, and the Atlantic is fairly seaweed free as well as the temperature is above 40 degrees in the summer. Then again Yosemite is the greatest place I've ever been... But the east coast is full of history. I drove through Sharpsburg on my way to work today, some people travel a long way to visit Antietam...and as far as outdoors things to do, riding a bike along the C&O canal is a strictly east coast experience... My favorite season out of the year is winter... which is better, North Atlantic or North Pacific. Hmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcnativenerd Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Oddly enough, I wrote a poem on this subject recently. _______________________________________________________________ On the Right Coast They tell me I've got to go west Where the sun always shines And the clouds stay away Where it's summer all year long And the light gleams from ebony limousines But maybe I like the clouds Maybe I like the rain and the wind and the snow Why settle for one season When you can have all four Here on the east coast I want to stay where people know who they are I want to stay here, the home of the American dream The home of New England Cynicism The home of New York Sensibility The home of Chicago's Big Shoulders The home of St. Louis' oversized arch The home of Pennsylvania's tough simplicity The home of the Chesapeake on Maryland's shores And the home of our nation's capital, on the banks of Potomac I want to be in the hill country and the prairies I want to be among the magnolias and the swamp land Where the hospitality is second to none I want to be here in chartered territory Where the Nation's had time to mature Where People's feet are planted squarely in the ground Stay East, young man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 I think SoCal weather would get boring and repititive. Here we have 100 F summer days and 15 F winter days. In the 12 years we've had two hurricanes, a hundred year rainstorm, an F4 tornado and two classic Nor'Easters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedskinDaddy Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Vegas tops any gambling you can do on the east coast. Hell, Reno even beats out AC. Indian casinos everywhere. the mass transit of DC is something to marvel at though when compared to most of CA. I dunno. To the best of my knowledge the Metro doesn't travel underwater, does it? I know DC is built on a swamp (haters don't bother), but the M is not called upon to cross the bay like the BART does. Or is it? Corrections welcome here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedskinDaddy Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley and Cal Tech are pretty hard to beat. Damnit, this is what I get when I read PART of a thread and then start (to borrow an E Coast thang) popping off. SoCal, way to represent brother. I pretty much repeated what you posted verbatim before I got to your post. I'm an idiot. Clearly I didn't go to college in Cali. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Pressure Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 After that poem I think we should establish some agreeable concept as to where exactly the two coasts end. I was under the impression that the west coast encompassed California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Arizona and the east coast was everything from Maine to Florida and as far west as perhaps Indiana. Some people clearly see it as strictly states with coastline for obvious reasons, and apparently dcnativenerd thinks the east coast is the home of Chicago and St. Louis, which aren't even in the same time zone as the Atlantic states... Which is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 I dunno. To the best of my knowledge the Metro doesn't travel underwater, does it? I know DC is built on a swamp (haters don't bother), but the M is not called upon to cross the bay like the BART does.Or is it? Corrections welcome here. The blue and orange lines go under the Potomac but what does that matter, BART can't compare to the second busiest rail system in the country. Plus, you got NYC Subway, The T in Boston... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 The east coast is Maine to Florida. Chicago? STL? That's the mid-west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Oddly enough, I wrote a poem on this subject recently. _______________________________________________________________ On the Right Coast They tell me I've got to go west Where the sun always shines And the clouds stay away Where it's summer all year long And the light gleams from ebony limousines But maybe I like the clouds Maybe I like the rain and the wind and the snow Why settle for one season When you can have all four Here on the east coast I want to stay where people know who they are I want to stay here, the home of the American dream The home of New England Cynicism The home of New York Sensibility The home of Chicago's Big Shoulders The home of St. Louis' oversized arch The home of Pennsylvania's tough simplicity The home of the Chesapeake on Maryland's shores And the home of our nation's capital, on the banks of Potomac I want to be in the hill country and the prairies I want to be among the magnolias and the swamp land Where the hospitality is second to none I want to be here in chartered territory Where the Nation's had time to mature Where People's feet are planted squarely in the ground Stay East, young man. That's a good poem. :applause: Still, I'd like to stick with a comparison of specific places. Putting Chicago, the praries, New York, New England, DC, Dixieland and Florida (and only the good parts of each of them) up against California isn't really a fair comparison, is it? You don't live in all those far flung places at the same time. Heck, you don't even visit most of them. Compare life in a single metropolitan area in the East and tell me how, overall, it compares to living in San Francisco or San Diego (or even LA or Seattle). I've lived there in the East, in DC and in Chicago and in Michigan and I've been all over the place from Boston to Miami to St Louis to Macon, Georgia. I haven't found any place that can match life in California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedskinDaddy Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 The blue and orange lines go under the Potomac but what does that matter, BART can't compare to the second busiest rail system in the country.Plus, you got NYC Subway, The T in Boston... Good point. I was referring more to the engineering aspect of the Chunnel-like tube that allows the BART to go from Oakland/Alameda to 'Frisco proper. That is a BIG body of water it runs under. Deep too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Pressure Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 I dunno. To the best of my knowledge the Metro doesn't travel underwater, does it? I know DC is built on a swamp (haters don't bother), but the M is not called upon to cross the bay like the BART does.Or is it? Corrections welcome here. D.C. is not located on the Chesapeake. The metro has no reason to cross it, though it does of course cross the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. The bay bridge over the Chesapeake is massive however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 The blue and orange lines go under the Potomac but what does that matter, BART can't compare to the second busiest rail system in the country.Plus, you got NYC Subway, The T in Boston... BART alone doesn't compare, but SF also has the MUNI subway and surface trains, the electric buses and even the cable cars. Of course, NYC is much better on that count, and Boston is at least as good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedskinDaddy Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 D.C. is not located on the Chesapeake. The metro has no reason to cross it, though it does of course cross the Potomac and Anacostia rivers.The bay bridge over the Chesapeake is massive however. I misspoke. I meant to say a bay. I realize DC is not on the Chesapeake. As bridges go the Coronado, double-decker Bay and of course the Golden State are all pretty impressive in their own right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcnativenerd Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 St. Louis and Chicago, though not ON the coast, are still certainly eastern cities, or at least the eastern most Mid-Western cities. Chicago defiantly has that "east coast mentality" and many believe St. Louis is a southern city. I consider them to be eastern cities, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Pressure Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 I think we are all missing the number one fact in this argument. The east coast has a city...that city is called Washington, D.C. Washington D.C. is the home to a football team, this team is called the Washington Redskins. People living in MD, VA, and D.C. enjoy not only living in the broadcast area of the Washington Redskins, but living in close proximity to the stadium. I'll tell ya, last December, you couldn't offer me any of those West Coast advantages as a trade for standing in FedEx field amongst 90,000 people, drenched and freezing, looking at a 27-6 scoreboard while singing Hail to The Redskins. I rest my case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedskinDaddy Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 I think we are all missing the number one fact in this argument.The east coast has a city...that city is called Washington, D.C. Washington D.C. is the home to a football team, this team is called the Washington Redskins. People living in MD, VA, and D.C. enjoy not only living in the broadcast area of the Washington Redskins, but living in close proximity to the stadium. I'll tell ya, last December, you couldn't offer me any of those West Coast advantages as a trade for standing in FedEx field amongst 90,000 people, drenched and freezing, looking at a 27-6 scoreboard while singing Hail to The Redskins. I rest my case. Absolutely agree with you brother. In your shoes I'd do the exact same thing. ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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