What are the cultural differences between cities on the west coast and cities on the east coast?

Question

For example, how is life different in two cities of similar size, one on the west coast and one on the east coast? Say, Portland, Oregon and Boston, Massachusetts?

Answer 1

Seattle and Boston I'd choose as sisters. Seattle has great variety and a young, though not such a "Where'd you go to school" and busy-with-career attitude as in Boston. Seattle is surrounded by vast, beautiful forests and hills, and the weather is conducive to be outside as much as possible.
Portland I'd compare with the state of Vermont, especially Burlington, but PO is a bigger city, really has as much going on as Seattle, and is more laid back, friendly, fun, and lots of youth, lost and found.
I'd put New York with San Francisco. They both have a feeling like you're completely apart from the rest of the country, both have endless diversity and a tough edge, but in both places it's really not cool to be mean. There's an Amsterdam type tolerance level there, with lots of very bright and creative people.
Next l'd put Miami with Los Angeles. Both have the traffic, the patchiness of neighborhoods, some beautiful, some tacky, some really rough looking, Both cities are like an unpredictable quilt. Large Latino populations, though I know Miami is really led by the Hispanics with one and a half times more Spanish spoken than English. I think Los Angeles has a large Hispanic population, but they don't run the city, and I think they get a less friendly welcome when they immigrate to L.A., whereas in Miami they are home, legal or not.
Both cities are busy, lots of traffic, beaches, Florida's warm and good for soaking and snorkeling, but California's cooler and best for surfers in wetsuits. Fort Lauderdale has a laid back beachy culture like some burbs of Los Angeles.
LA wins hands down for culture. It's up there with NYC for new releases and style.
But they say LA people may be more "friendly" on the surface than New Yorkers, but if a NY person likes you (Miami, too, for that matter) you know it.
I don't know what to compare San Diego to, haven't been there.
In sum, west coast is greener, hipper, more laid back, friendly and intelligent. East coast has to be divided into north and south, since the Northeast is very career oriented and busy. The Southeast coast is just more for relaxing, boating, sunshine, and is very car oriented, so very suburban compared to the NE, which is very urban and sort of European with all the trains and more historical cities.
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Answer 2

Culturally?

On the East Coast, when someone asks where your family is from, usually the answer will be a country - Italy, France, Russia, Greece.....

On the West Coast, the answer will probably be - Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania.

The west has only been "open" for a little over 100 years......the east has been "open" for almost 500.

The West was dominated by Spain, Mexico and Russia. Many wars were fought for control of the west. First American settlers were looking for land and gold.

The East was peaceful and inhabited by Native Americans who were shortly dispatched by the invaders from Great Britain, the Netherlands and other "western Europe" countries. Only one war was fought between countries for control....the Revolutionary war. The invaders were looking for land and religious "freedom" and domination.

Answer 3

The East Coast is awesome, and the West Coast is tan.

Answer 4

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