Re: A city so nice they had to name it twice.

Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:28:50 -0800 (PST) 

Yeah, I suppose I was stating my preference. It's like
that "grass is greener on the other side" feeling.
There's actually a big situation with the UC and CSU
systems. The CSU is accusing the UC's of taking the
top 20 or 15 percent of everyhighschool. But this new
guy that's head of the california college system is
trying to improve all the CSU's to be more competitive
with the UC's. As for phonies, I don't know of
anyplace anyone could go to get away from phonies(the
phony in us and everyone else). That's a very good
Vonnegut quote. I heard it in a song, but I always
thought it came from somewhere else. If I had grown up
in the New York area all my life instead of
California, I could see how I'd want to move to
California. I wouldn't want to get too hard in NYC,
but right now I feel the opposite like I need to get
out of California. Plus there's this girl I know in
New York who is totally unlike anyone I've ever met;)

--- AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/27/99 11:50:09 PM Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> pariah1980@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> << I'm sorry if I've ruined any one's idea of
> California,
>  and if you haven't been you really should visit,
> but
>  it's like living in a test tube. our way of life is
> so
>  different from the many other kinds out there.
> sorry
>  for rambling, but visiting New York for me was like
>  going to a whole other world. lol >>
> 
> Of course it was.  Jeez.  Growing up in CA then
> going to New York, or vice 
> versa, will be radically intense experiences.  CA is
> genuinely A Whole Other 
> World.  Or, rather, Literally :)  There is an
> "insulated" quality about it, 
> that's part of the Edenic effect it has.  
> 
> But so far as the writing programs go...I can't
> really speak to that.  I know 
> the UC system is pretty incredible over all,
> Berkeley being one of the top 
> rated schools in the country, but I can see more
> established writers (of 
> literary merit) in NY than in CA.  I think the UC
> system is set up so that 
> only the top fifteen percent of students can apply,
> and in the Engineering 
> school back in 1982 that meant you needed a 4.0 just
> to be considered.    
> 
> I'm not trying to run down NYC, my point is that
> comparing the two is pretty 
> useless.  All you're really doing is stating your
> preferences.  I'd rather 
> raise my kids in any so CA town at least 50 miles
> away from LA, but I'd sure 
> love to live in the city for awhile, at least.  
> 
> What did Vonnegut say?  Live in NYC once but leave
> before you get hard.  Live 
> in San Francisco once but leave before you get soft?
>  I think that sums it up.
> 
> Jim
> 

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