Comments on: To Go East or West

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:52:05 +0000

The West Coast definitely have a more relaxed attitude about everything. The East are much more uptight, frothy and angry.

By: kathakali.chatterjee

kathakali.chatterjee — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:10:59 +0000

As far as the educatoin goes, I think the West Coast is more of a “easy-going” type, at least this article says so:
http://ideas.theatlantic.com/2009/06/the_east_the_west_and_the_ivy_league.
I faced a similar kind of attitude in University of Rochester, NY once, very subtle though…

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:16:27 +0000

It’s interesting that all the education initiatives come out of California. It takes five years for those new ideas to reach across America for adoption on the East Coast. I guess it’s because California is newer and perhaps less prone to East Coast didactic thinking and ingrained behaviors of tradition.

By: kathakali.chatterjee

kathakali.chatterjee — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:20:09 +0000

Although I’ve never stayed in East coast or the West but I found the East coast more intellectually stimulating than the West.
Whenever I think of Broadway musical/ theatre/ exhibition I think of East coast…somehow I find the West to be merely a symbol of glitz and glamour instead of being an engaging experience.

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:39:49 +0000

What were the big differences moving East to West?

By: Gordon Davidescu

Gordon Davidescu — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:36:23 +0000

Good point! I meant that I couldn’t relate to moving from the midwest

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:11:23 +0000

What about your move to Seattle? Not West enough?

By: Gordon Davidescu

Gordon Davidescu — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:37:40 +0000

I can’t say I can really relate entirely — other than I lived for twelve years in West Windsor, New Jersey — and when I moved to Princeton there were some at my new school who basically treated me like I was the biggest hick they had ever met, talking about my admiration for then President Reagan.