Sixth-generation native Californian. Actually, sixth-gen Angeleno (if only by a technicality: my mom had ties to one of the German families that founded Anaheim in the 1850's). Now annoying native Oregonians by taking up space in their beautiful state.
The only people that I ever heard say the words "Cali" to refer to the state of California are people who weren't from California.
Given the size of the state, actually, it is more common for people to refer to which metro they are from (LA, SF, SD [which, unlike "Frisco", natives actually say "Dego" sometimes], even Fresno and Bakersfield) rather than say they are from "California." This is often taken to a logical extreme: it was not uncommon for people from Palm Springs and Barstow (both over 100 miles from LA city center) to say they're from LA.
It is also worth noting that out of the 100 or so people I kept in contact with from my high school days (the 1980's), only two are still living in California. And one is trying to move right now.
Now annoying native Oregonians by taking up space in their beautiful state.
*snicker*
I sometimes say I'm from "around San Francisco" (I'm ~45 miles from it), but only to people whom I don't expect to have any idea where I mean if I say "Sunnyvale" or even "San Jose". (It also forestalls "Sunnydale" jokes, which I hate with a passion.)
Most of the people I know who have left California did so because it was too expensive. I'm hoping that we can install enotsola into something lucrative enough that with my $57k we might actually be able to *gasp* afford a house (although not likely anywhere near my street, where something currently way undersold for about $860k because the inheritors just wanted to be rid of it, and others are going for ~$1m) or even just a condo, but at the moment I'll settle for being able to move out into an apartment before the end of the year (hello, ~$1500-2000/mo).
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Date: Mar. 26th, 2008 02:03 pm (UTC)From:The only people that I ever heard say the words "Cali" to refer to the state of California are people who weren't from California.
Given the size of the state, actually, it is more common for people to refer to which metro they are from (LA, SF, SD [which, unlike "Frisco", natives actually say "Dego" sometimes], even Fresno and Bakersfield) rather than say they are from "California." This is often taken to a logical extreme: it was not uncommon for people from Palm Springs and Barstow (both over 100 miles from LA city center) to say they're from LA.
It is also worth noting that out of the 100 or so people I kept in contact with from my high school days (the 1980's), only two are still living in California. And one is trying to move right now.
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Date: Mar. 26th, 2008 07:53 pm (UTC)From:*snicker*
I sometimes say I'm from "around San Francisco" (I'm ~45 miles from it), but only to people whom I don't expect to have any idea where I mean if I say "Sunnyvale" or even "San Jose". (It also forestalls "Sunnydale" jokes, which I hate with a passion.)
Most of the people I know who have left California did so because it was too expensive. I'm hoping that we can install