Comments on: California and Me, a Short Interlude http://tleaves.com/2004/07/17/california-and-me-a-short-interlude/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amos the Poker Cat http://tleaves.com/2004/07/17/california-and-me-a-short-interlude/comment-page-1/#comment-474 Amos the Poker Cat Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:14:14 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=145#comment-474 I have had banh mi in more places than just CA. The example was because it was mentioned in a tv program than I would expect a number of people in the area would have seen. Lets see, I have had banh mi in Denver, Houston, Cleveland, DC, Atlantic City, and even Munich. OK, she has different sizes, but what I got for $5 was nothing more than a standard single serving bagette size 6 inch that I have gotten everywhere. Why should I ask? Should not the business make an effort to enumerate the options? Menu? Signs? OPS, I forgot this is Pittsburgh, and everyone just knows. See Pittsblog and the Custard Class. I have had banh mi in more places than just CA. The example was because it was mentioned in a tv program than I would expect a number of people in the area would have seen. Lets see, I have had banh mi in Denver, Houston, Cleveland, DC, Atlantic City, and even Munich.

OK, she has different sizes, but what I got for $5 was nothing more than a standard single serving bagette size 6 inch that I have gotten everywhere.

Why should I ask? Should not the business make an effort to enumerate the options? Menu? Signs? OPS, I forgot this is Pittsburgh, and everyone just knows. See Pittsblog and the Custard Class.

]]> By: Tony http://tleaves.com/2004/07/17/california-and-me-a-short-interlude/comment-page-1/#comment-473 Tony Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:19:44 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=145#comment-473 Been in Chicago for 8 years and love it! The architecture, the culture, the park lined downtown with it's nearly 26 mile bike path, the incredible nightlfe, the even more incredible restaurants, and even more incredible neighborhoods (lincoln park, old town, wrigleyville) I can go on and on....the transit A plus, the cabs are plentiful, the buses and l trains 24 hours daily...awesome place. Traffic f'n sucks ass big time though. Came to Chicago from HELL A (LA) and do not miss LA a all except for the fine ass in manhattan beach. Chicago rocks! Been in Chicago for 8 years and love it! The architecture, the culture, the park lined downtown with it’s nearly 26 mile bike path, the incredible nightlfe, the even more incredible restaurants, and even more incredible neighborhoods (lincoln park, old town, wrigleyville) I can go on and on….the transit A plus, the cabs are plentiful, the buses and l trains 24 hours daily…awesome place.

Traffic f’n sucks ass big time though. Came to Chicago from HELL A (LA) and do not miss LA a all except for the fine ass in manhattan beach. Chicago rocks!

]]> By: peterb http://tleaves.com/2004/07/17/california-and-me-a-short-interlude/comment-page-1/#comment-472 peterb Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:28:21 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=145#comment-472 Lucy the Banh Mi lady actually charges $3, $4, or $5 depending on the size of the sandwich you order. And you can get chicken OR pork, if you but ask. I asked her to have the pate next week, and she said "sure." So yes, there are many things that are not as easy to get in Pittsburgh as in California. But there's more than you think -- if you're willing to take the time and ask. Plus, for some reason Californians are constitutionally unable to produce a decent hot sausage and pepper sandwich. So I figure we're even. Lucy the Banh Mi lady actually charges $3, $4, or $5 depending on the size of the sandwich you order. And you can get chicken OR pork, if you but ask. I asked her to have the pate next week, and she said “sure.”

So yes, there are many things that are not as easy to get in Pittsburgh as in California. But there’s more than you think — if you’re willing to take the time and ask.

Plus, for some reason Californians are constitutionally unable to produce a decent hot sausage and pepper sandwich. So I figure we’re even.

]]> By: Amos the Poker Cat http://tleaves.com/2004/07/17/california-and-me-a-short-interlude/comment-page-1/#comment-471 Amos the Poker Cat Wed, 10 Aug 2005 01:31:05 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=145#comment-471 The lone Veitnames sandwich lady in PIT charges $5 for grilled chicken with no pate calling it a banh mi. On Sebak's "Sandwiches You Will Like", in high priced San Jose, Huong Lan Sandwiches (hlsandwiches.com) has a dozen all under $2. The lone Veitnames sandwich lady in PIT charges $5 for grilled chicken with no pate calling it a banh mi. On Sebak’s “Sandwiches You Will Like”, in high priced San Jose, Huong Lan Sandwiches (hlsandwiches.com) has a dozen all under $2.

]]> By: Amos the Poker Cat http://tleaves.com/2004/07/17/california-and-me-a-short-interlude/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Amos the Poker Cat Wed, 10 Aug 2005 01:20:34 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=145#comment-470 I grew up in Pittsburgh, fled, and like La Cosa Nostra, ... ... "Just when I thought I was out, THEY PULL ME BACK IN." I can not wait until family obligations are done, and I can flee again. Ya, CA sucks too, but why is it still growing? If PIT was so great, why did the population get cut in half, and people are still leaving? Wish I could put HTML in comments here. I grew up in Pittsburgh, fled, and like La Cosa Nostra, …

… “Just when I thought I was out, THEY PULL ME BACK IN.”

I can not wait until family obligations are done, and I can flee again.

Ya, CA sucks too, but why is it still growing?

If PIT was so great, why did the population get cut in half, and people are still leaving?

Wish I could put HTML in comments here.

]]> By: Josh http://tleaves.com/2004/07/17/california-and-me-a-short-interlude/comment-page-1/#comment-469 Josh Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:25:42 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=145#comment-469 The weather may be fairly static, but the scenery is not. Hiking the surrounding parks, biking the urban areas, and water physical activity is the way to go. Time does not stand still when you do not sit still. This can be your next three months: Tahoe one weekend, then Yosemite, then Point Reyes, then Santa Cruz, then Monterey. Undoubtedly a Jazz festival and street fair. Big Sur. BBQ get-together at a local park. Wine country. Partying+sleeping. Golden Gate Park drum circle, reading, various facilities. The weather may be fairly static, but the scenery is not. Hiking the surrounding parks, biking the urban areas, and water physical activity is the way to go. Time does not stand still when you do not sit still.

This can be your next three months:
Tahoe one weekend, then Yosemite, then Point Reyes, then Santa Cruz, then Monterey. Undoubtedly a Jazz festival and street fair. Big Sur. BBQ get-together at a local park. Wine country. Partying+sleeping. Golden Gate Park drum circle, reading, various facilities.

]]> By: John http://tleaves.com/2004/07/17/california-and-me-a-short-interlude/comment-page-1/#comment-468 John Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:43:06 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=145#comment-468 I've lived here in California for almost 20 years. I love it here. To the people who live here but do nothing but complain ... Leave. To the people who do not live hear but do nothing but complain ... stay out. Simple really. I’ve lived here in California for almost 20 years. I love it here. To the people who live here but do nothing but complain … Leave. To the people who do not live hear but do nothing but complain … stay out. Simple really.

]]> By: GoPadres! http://tleaves.com/2004/07/17/california-and-me-a-short-interlude/comment-page-1/#comment-467 GoPadres! Sun, 12 Jun 2005 19:00:58 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=145#comment-467 This is kind of long so let me apologize in advance for such a long post. Stay with me. I've lived in alot of different locations, but Pittsburg does not happen to be one of them so I cannot comment on Pittsburg. 12 years ago my husband's job transferred us to California. I had never been there and I pitched a fit because I didn't want to go out there with all those "fruits and nuts." I was extremely negative about going and told my husband that we had to transfer again ASAP because I didn't want to get "stuck" out there like alot of people do for some reason. Well---- we ended up staying out there for over 10 years -- in San Diego the whole time. We had a GREAT life out there. It wasn't like that at first. It took me a good 2 years to adjust, but after that it was a done deal. First of all --- there are so many people which is an annoyance to some, but I found that it gave me new opportunites each day to meet new people and form new friendships. I found the people in San Diego to be some of the friendliest and most helpful people in the nation. I went out there with no college education and ended up leaving with a Masters degree and several years of work under my belt. After only 3 years at my job, I was making about $60K a year, and I'm nothing special to say the least. There are so many job openings in so many different fields. To me, there is gold in California (the land of golden opportunity). On the surface it looks like California has a traffic problem. Not so. Their traffic is very well planned for and managed. Driving out there is not really that unpleasant. California drivers rarely honk, give the finger, or yell. 99% of the time if you need to make a lane change in heavy traffic, you put your signal on and the car beside you will slow down and wave you in. Let's say you go to a restaurant and they tell you it's a 60 minute wait--- most of the time you will actually be seated in 20 min. San Diego restaurants give the absolute worst case scenario and then add 15min. more when you ask how long to be seated. Service workers know what they are doing in alot of fields and have a good attitude about their jobs. Example: you won't be repeating your order at McDonalds because the people working there actually have a brain and listening skills. Reason: if you don't do your job, you're fired, because there are plenty more great applicants to choose from. Also if you don't like your boss, QUIT -- no problem, you can walk down the street and get a new job the same day. If you choose your neighborhood carefully, you can pretty much walk almost everywhere. Pedestrians always have the right of way and you will rarely find an intersection without crosswalk buttons on all four corners. Sidewalks are wide. There is so much to do for singles or for families, that you can never be bored. You go to the beach in a bathing suit and drive to snow covered mountains in the same weekend. Education --- I know the schools don't have money, but the teachers in CA are the hardest working I have ever encountered and San Diego is packed full of smart, smart kids. The only reason that the schools score low is because the testing requires that the test also be administered to students who don't speak English. Those students just end up filling in whatever bubble. This skews the test results for California. Also, in middle and high schools alot of students have taken to rebeling to the testing by conspiring to fill in whatever bubble, because they are sick of the politics of testing as well. I won't comment on the illegal immigrants, other than to say it is a problem, but that said, I love the Mexican culture there. Also, love the Asian culture. My one pet peeve about California --- my disdain for celebrities and their "my expert opinion counts more" attitude. Uuuugh! ALOT of Californians strongly dislike and are totally embarrassed that so many damn celebrities live there. Also, I just have to shake my head at some of the crazy politics that go on. If you look at the political map of CA, you will see that San Diego is more conservative, more Republican, etc., everything LA and north always make the state go liberal or Democrat in the elections. Two years ago we had to move to Florida, and I HATE it! I will sell everything I have to be able to afford a one bedroom house in San Diego if that's what I have to do. I could write a book on all the stuff I don't like about Florida, but it is pretty strong stuff and I don't like to offend an Floridians reading this. Alot of Californians won't defend their state because they actually don't want more people to move there for obvious reasons, so they just nod or shut their mouth when confronted with California bashing. I love CA so much that it's hard for me to keep my mouth shut in an effort to deceive. This is kind of long so let me apologize in advance for such a long post. Stay with me. I’ve lived in alot of different locations, but Pittsburg does not happen to be one of them so I cannot comment on Pittsburg. 12 years ago my husband’s job transferred us to California. I had never been there and I pitched a fit because I didn’t want to go out there with all those “fruits and nuts.” I was extremely negative about going and told my husband that we had to transfer again ASAP because I didn’t want to get “stuck” out there like alot of people do for some reason. Well—- we ended up staying out there for over 10 years — in San Diego the whole time. We had a GREAT life out there. It wasn’t like that at first. It took me a good 2 years to adjust, but after that it was a done deal. First of all — there are so many people which is an annoyance to some, but I found that it gave me new opportunites each day to meet new people and form new friendships. I found the people in San Diego to be some of the friendliest and most helpful people in the nation. I went out there with no college education and ended up leaving with a Masters degree and several years of work under my belt. After only 3 years at my job, I was making about $60K a year, and I’m nothing special to say the least. There are so many job openings in so many different fields. To me, there is gold in California (the land of golden opportunity). On the surface it looks like California has a traffic problem. Not so. Their traffic is very well planned for and managed. Driving out there is not really that unpleasant. California drivers rarely honk, give the finger, or yell. 99% of the time if you need to make a lane change in heavy traffic, you put your signal on and the car beside you will slow down and wave you in. Let’s say you go to a restaurant and they tell you it’s a 60 minute wait— most of the time you will actually be seated in 20 min. San Diego restaurants give the absolute worst case scenario and then add 15min. more when you ask how long to be seated. Service workers know what they are doing in alot of fields and have a good attitude about their jobs. Example: you won’t be repeating your order at McDonalds because the people working there actually have a brain and listening skills. Reason: if you don’t do your job, you’re fired, because there are plenty more great applicants to choose from. Also if you don’t like your boss, QUIT — no problem, you can walk down the street and get a new job the same day. If you choose your neighborhood carefully, you can pretty much walk almost everywhere. Pedestrians always have the right of way and you will rarely find an intersection without crosswalk buttons on all four corners. Sidewalks are wide. There is so much to do for singles or for families, that you can never be bored. You go to the beach in a bathing suit and drive to snow covered mountains in the same weekend. Education — I know the schools don’t have money, but the teachers in CA are the hardest working I have ever encountered and San Diego is packed full of smart, smart kids. The only reason that the schools score low is because the testing requires that the test also be administered to students who don’t speak English. Those students just end up filling in whatever bubble. This skews the test results for California. Also, in middle and high schools alot of students have taken to rebeling to the testing by conspiring to fill in whatever bubble, because they are sick of the politics of testing as well. I won’t comment on the illegal immigrants, other than to say it is a problem, but that said, I love the Mexican culture there. Also, love the Asian culture. My one pet peeve about California — my disdain for celebrities and their “my expert opinion counts more” attitude. Uuuugh! ALOT of Californians strongly dislike and are totally embarrassed that so many damn celebrities live there. Also, I just have to shake my head at some of the crazy politics that go on. If you look at the political map of CA, you will see that San Diego is more conservative, more Republican, etc., everything LA and north always make the state go liberal or Democrat in the elections. Two years ago we had to move to Florida, and I HATE it! I will sell everything I have to be able to afford a one bedroom house in San Diego if that’s what I have to do. I could write a book on all the stuff I don’t like about Florida, but it is pretty strong stuff and I don’t like to offend an Floridians reading this. Alot of Californians won’t defend their state because they actually don’t want more people to move there for obvious reasons, so they just nod or shut their mouth when confronted with California bashing. I love CA so much that it’s hard for me to keep my mouth shut in an effort to deceive.

]]> By: Mike http://tleaves.com/2004/07/17/california-and-me-a-short-interlude/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Mike Sun, 10 Apr 2005 04:38:12 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=145#comment-466 Just moved to Pittsburgh from Queens and I absolutely hate it here. You can't walk anywhere, you can hardly DRIVE anywhere because the roads are so freaking illogical (and note, I come from QUEENS), and everything is always under construction. Culture is nonexistant, and it's the only city I've even been to (besides for New York, this counts Philly, DC, Miami, New Orleans, Chicago, and LA) where I can walk into a bar in the middle of downtown and be accosted by football-crazed hicks and blaring country music. And don't even get me started on the accent.... don't even get me going.... I'm moving back to Queens at the end of the year, and I'm NEVER coming back. Just moved to Pittsburgh from Queens and I absolutely hate it here. You can’t walk anywhere, you can hardly DRIVE anywhere because the roads are so freaking illogical (and note, I come from QUEENS), and everything is always under construction. Culture is nonexistant, and it’s the only city I’ve even been to (besides for New York, this counts Philly, DC, Miami, New Orleans, Chicago, and LA) where I can walk into a bar in the middle of downtown and be accosted by football-crazed hicks and blaring country music. And don’t even get me started on the accent…. don’t even get me going…. I’m moving back to Queens at the end of the year, and I’m NEVER coming back.

]]> By: DanH http://tleaves.com/2004/07/17/california-and-me-a-short-interlude/comment-page-1/#comment-465 DanH Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:31:41 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=145#comment-465 Yea Pittsburgh is really great, thats why so many people take their vacations here. I can't wait to leave. Yea Pittsburgh is really great, thats why so many people take their vacations here. I can’t wait to leave.

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