Yearly Matt Campbell to ?? Thread
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“I only went to the overly crowded tourist areas that locals never step foot in unless they are forced to and I hated it. Whole area is a dump”
100%. Not sure urban grasped the burn this was, but CMC called him up, asked his advice, then did the opposite of that advice.
I have some relatives that were the opposite. They fell in love with LA and Cali on vacation. Started going on yearly vacations there and decided to jump in and move there. They didn't make it a year until they moved back. Turns out they loved the vacation side of Cali/LA but the living side wasn't what it was cracked up to be.
It’s like the Ankeny of California. All you outsiders **** all over it, but the enlightened know it’s 10/10.
Ames is CMCs dream, he said how blessed he was in the PR because of how hard its been, hes getting a kick out of winning in Ames, and frankly he is set for life and so is his kids at this point
Well, I think you’re ~400 miles off on the greatest place in America, but agree SoCal is nice.
My Bay Area born-and-raised teenager fell in love with Chicago after a day walking around the city. She has spent a good bit of time in Manhattan and thought Chicago was better.
In Iowa, if you say something is 10 miles away, that usually correlates to a 10 minute(ish) drive. In LA, ten miles usually equates to a 90 minute drive, in my experience.
If people googled Lincoln Riley’s house and neighborhood they’d probably change their mind.
I live in LA fwiw. Miami is the only city I really didn’t like. Dallas and Houston were whatever to me. Absolutely love Chicago and NYC. Like any city or town, individual neighborhoods are a much better representation of the culture than the major tourist areas.
I’ve been to Dallas a bunch. It sucks, but I prefer it to LA.
New Orleans is my favorite American city, and it’s not all that close.
Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St Paul, St Louis, KC, and Chicago all rate highly for me too.
Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St Paul, St Louis, KC, and Chicago all rate highly for me too.
I can see Matt leaving at some point. Maybe even after the season. I don't live in a fairy tale world where all of our coaches are locked in to stay. Fred and Cael convinced me that any of our coaches could move jobs. Hope we keep Matt and TJ but say someone like that packers job came open, That would be a legendary job that I could see someone taking.
I’ve heard similar things about other parts of California (either people that loved traveling there or didn’t like it when living there when they thought they would) like San Diego, places a little farther from LA like Santa Barbara/Palm Springs, Sonoma/Napa, etc. But that would be new to me to hear about LA and the close suburbs.
I guess my takeaway is that I generally like or at least enjoy the overcrowded tourist areas in most places I visit. I mean I went downtown, Bevery Hills, Santa Monica, most of Hollywood. All of it pretty meh as far as tourist attractions go. I'm sure living there is fun, I mean multi-millions of people do so it can't be terrible, but it was not at all for me. I was simply echoing that sentiment that was also contained in the original post I replied to.
Any small bit of research would have told you to skip Santa Monica. Head south. Much better beaches.
I don’t fear large cities or anything and I’m sure there are good places in LA but the traffic alone is enough for me to say **** that
I mean this is def true if you leave at rush hour. But it's not true at all when you plan accordingly. I travel to LA every month for work and have zero issues getting around and experiencing the various towns though I tend to stick closer to the beach cities these days as that's where work is.
Life in SoCal certainly can take some planning and organization in terms of getting places...but if you do that...the payoff is a lot of fun...whether it is a day at the beach, boating/skiing/playing in the mountains, concerts in regional parks...all sorts of good stuff!
