>The West Coast has the youngest subsections of what is, still, one of the
>youngest countries of the world [225+ years] and so people aren't quite
>as set in their ideological ways. Plenty of opportunities for
>troublemakers. After living-working in DC for too many years, moving out
>West was a breath of fresh air in more ways than one. Of course, you
>don't have to scratch too far below the surface to find the Wild West
>with all it's lunacies, but folks out here are nowhere near as dogmatic
>and adversarial as East Coast culture. The beer is better too!
Yeah, if you overlook the lifestyle smugness, which is a dogmatism that dare not speak its name.
Dog