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From: steve@dartvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Back East vs. the Coast
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Date: Fri, 30-Sep-83 19:39:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 30 19:39:56 1983
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Hold on a second, Mark.  Your reasons for finding the East Coast distasteful
are a bit wide of the mark (heh, heh).  Let's run down your list.
(a) "It's incredibly crowded."  So is Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and
    Houston.  Crowding is an urban phenomenon, not an eastern one.
(b) "It's expensive."  Ditto. 
(c) "It's old and run down."  It's perhaps understandable that someone
   from the coast would tend to equate the two.  The South Bronx and Watts
   could both be called run down, and age has little to do with it.  Here
   in New England there are lots of houses that are 200 years old, and
   the quality of most of them puts your post-1950 construction to shame.
   Lots of things back East are old - buildings, institutions, customs -
   and it's a mark of their value.
(d) "It's in the 'north', and thus has hot humid summers and cold winters."
    Well, yes and no.  Summers in the southern sections are pretty brutal,
    but in the north, especially New England, they're delightful.  Days in
    the 80's and nights in the 60's are our norm.  As to winter, they're
    SUPPOSED to be cold, else what good are they?  Try stepping outside
    on a January night when it's 20 below, dry, crisp, still, clear.  You
    can do it with only a sweater.  It's magical.  Who wants just one
    season all year long?
					Ayah love the East