#26 Manhattan (now Brooklyn too!)
January 26, 2008 by clander
Often times if you ask a white person about where to travel, you will get a lot of responses. But if you ask them about New York, white people will go nuts. They love the city universally and all either live there, have lived there, will live there or want to live there.
White people like New York because it has artists, restaurants, a subway, history, diversity, plays, and other white people. It literally has everything white people need to thrive! The only thing it’s missing is nature, but Central Park is right there, and since you are walking all the time, you are outside!
If you are from New York, tell this to a white person. They will instantly be interested in you “what part of New York? and you are really from there?” When they inevitably tell you about your home town (“I know this great italian place…”) you should respond by saying “man, I thought place was only known to New Yorkers.”
Another secret fact about white people, if you are in group setting and the topic of New York City comes up, find the highest ranking white person and say “oh, are you from New York?”
To them, this means you are calling them cultured, cool, and urban. They will respond with something like “oh, well, I’ve spent a lot of time there,” or “I lived there for three years.” You will have instantly become more popular than all other people in the group.
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And Brooklyn.
FUCK Manhattan.
Lindy:
If you go inland a llittle bit there are a lot of the old citrus/railroad towns that have maintained a lot of their original character…you should spend some time in downtown Orange (1 1/2 miles from Disneyland, and about 100 years away) near Chapman University-there are businesses there from the 1900′s (Watson’s Drug)an old drug store with dining area), a great, inexpensive Cuban restaurant (Felix-which could well be one of the 10-best restaurants in OC) in the circle/town square, lots of antique shops, and strict historical preservation ordinances…
You should also spend time in downtown Fullerton (same, with lots of restaurants/bars-the OC version of Gaslamp) and Santa Ana (the county seat with a large, vibrant barrio)…same goes for San Juan Capistrano (not only the mission but the town around it)…the train station and the old town on the west side of the tracks is well worth your time (as is the kiddie zoo!)
Finally-find the main business district in San Clemente-good restaurants, bars and definitely not prefab (I will admit, anything east of I-5 fits the bill)…
Having said that-people like living in those gated communities (I in fact live in one Dove Canyon) and love it-being the father of a 7 year old there are kids everywhere, the schools are good-public and private-and we do in fact have a town center in Rancho Santa Margarita that is very walkable and vibrant, as is the lake…and not too many chains/strip malls-they all went to Foothill Ranch to the north. DC/RSM has all been built in the last 10-15 years-and has consciously tried to create a center, and not be just a collection of strip malls…
A lot of the older planned communities (Irvine, Mission Viejo despite the fantastic landscaping) have the sterile feel you describe.
I drove down the PCH last year, and with the exception of Laguna Beach – quite a quaint town – found most of the OC really mall-like, completely ignorant of the beautiful landscape, and what is with those gated communities?! It feels so processed and dead.
LA, while insanely covered with highways has a wildness and optimism to it that you certainly couldn’t get anywhere else and the architecture is outstanding, a cultural gem that is part of everday life.
SD Gaslamp Quarter is good times all around though!
for those of you looking at southern California-LA and OC/SD are very different places…most OC/SD people will only cross the county line to go to LAX for an international flight…otherwise you have better roads, cleaner cities, honest (by and large, with a few conspicuous exceptions) politicians not catering to the illegal immigrant lobby, your own sports teams, better schools, first-rate restaurants with every bit the diversity of LA, etc..
It’s interesting that the first thing you notice is that when you cross the county line on I-5 or 405 driving south is that there are twice as many lanes on the freeway (since the voters of OC were wise enough to pass a gas tax in the early 90′s that rebuilt all the roads…and as a result the LA politicians that are busy lining the pockets of their government employees complain of OC dumping their traffic into LA (instead of rebuilding the freeway-which should have been done a long time ago!)
To sum up-LA is a pit-while OC/SD is still a nice place…
hey Jon, after the narcos shot each other up in the middle of Tijuana over the weekend, I dont think you want to vist there anytime soon…
besides, all the nice Tijuana hotties (the ones from good families with money and educations)-hang out in the Gaslamp in SD on the weekend….
I think that the definition of “white people” in this case applies to liberal, Ivy-League or equivalent educated, white people….
Here in south OC we have lots of $$$, like our good weather, uncrowded roads, and techie jobs-and moan about the lost equity in our overpriced houses and really moan when barrio SantaAna or the heathens from the 909 (Riverside/San Bernardino) area code invade Newport Beach on a hot day like yesterday…oh well, I guess nothings perfect! We also tend to go to large bible-thumping megachurches like Saddleback (i would never go near the place myself, but I would guess half of my neighbors do!), almost never vote for Democrats (Obama is cancer here, as is Hillary) – and the best-kept secret is the name of a good gardener/housekeeper!
I would say most of my neighbors have lived in the places discussed above before they had kids….
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