snobby socal shit

I don’t know if this is anyone else’s experience, but one of the weirdest things about moving out of southern california, is that people’s attitudes about location are different/nonexistent in norcal.

OKAY, I was bored and watching an old episode of the oc, and there was a snide comment about the 909, and it occurred to me that up here people don’t really talk about location/area codes. Growing up in San Diego, that sort of locational snobbery wasn’t as obvious as in, say, Orange County or LA, but I still know all of the area codes and their stereotypical/offensive implications (for example: 949 is rich orange county/newport beach yuppies, 909 is inland empire/white-trash, etc, 818 is the valley. and so on, so forth).

I don’t know if this is necessarily the case for other san diegans, but that knowledge is somehow ingrained in my brain. Either way, I don’t feel anything like that in norcal. It’s probably just because I’m not from around here, but I just feel so much more detached from my surroundings, whereas in socal I feel like I know what’s what (in a wholly superficial and judgemental, but nonetheless very comforting way).

side note: area codes are maybe the southern california version of all of the boroughs and neighborhoods in new york city.