Ever try moving to another state?

[ezas]

When I moved to 'gold country' I met people who raved about Yosemite. But I'm too jaded to take that kind of  gushing seriously . . .

I finally took a motorcycle trip there and man was I wrong. Breathtaking, stunning, those are the kind of words that come to mind.

 

[Patrick from Davis]

I have always heard Lake Tahoe, as Tahoe.  South shore (Casinos) or North shore (I80.)  And anything north of Fresno is the central valley.  The Bay Area is a republic by itself.  Dunno about the central coast, don't refer to much by that.  Placerville is in the Foothills, which is an indistinct length of highly burnable hills before the Sierras full of rattlesnakes and red dirt.  It is preceded by Folsom (More towards the valley), which most know because of Johnny Cash.  You can generally tell if people are from northern or southern California by the way they refer to roads.  In Northern California some one will say, "Traffic is backed up on 80 near the causeway, again..." and in Southern California you will hear things like, "We are taking the 5 over the grapevine."  The roads are given a "the" for some reason in Southern Ca.  Odd but it just seems to be the way of things.  It is kind of cool to go fro the ocean to the snow in four hours, depending on traffic, but once you have done that you really don't need to a second time.  Very strange place, bu a lot of fun as well.  You can get by for a reasonable amount of money, but you have to work at it.
Patrick

 

[hannaugh]

I think we put "the" in front of freeways because we have a gazillion of them in one place, so we probably talk about them a lot more than other people and find them a lot more important.  Within a 20 mile radius of my house are the 5, 10, 55, 57, 91, 22, 405, 605, 710, 101, 60, and the 71.  Just a little ways more and there's the 110, 2, 105, the 15, 215, 118, the 1... I could go on.  That's a lot of freeways. 

 

[ezas]

I have always heard Lake Tahoe, as Tahoe.  South shore (Casinos) or North shore (I80.)  And anything north of Fresno is the central valley.  The Bay Area is a republic by itself.  Dunno about the central coast, don't refer to much by that.  Placerville is in the Foothills, which is an indistinct length of highly burnable hills before the Sierras full of rattlesnakes and red dirt.  It is preceded by Folsom (More towards the valley), which most know because of Johnny Cash.  You can generally tell if people are from northern or southern California by the way they refer to roads.  In Northern California some one will say, "Traffic is backed up on 80 near the causeway, again..." and in Southern California you will hear things like, "We are taking the 5 over the grapevine."  The roads are given a "the" for some reason in Southern Ca.  Odd but it just seems to be the way of things.  It is kind of cool to go fro the ocean to the snow in four hours, depending on traffic, but once you have done that you really don't need to a second time.  Very strange place, bu a lot of fun as well.  You can get by for a reasonable amount of money, but you have to work at it.
Patrick

Pretty good description but I've never heard anyone in P'ville say they live in the foothills.  Evergreen trees grow native in P'ville so I think that is why people consider it to be the Sierras.

Also we are above the fog . . .

Placerville motto (and bragging):  Above the Fog - Below the Snow