Here's a quick list of things that are more likely to happen to you if you live in Southern California and not the Midwest:
1. Rainbow flip flops on casual day are totally acceptable. At your former firm, wearing a skirt without panty hose was cause for dismissal. Now you're cruising into the office on Fridays in flops and shorts.
2. High school friends of your friends are porn stars. You kind of dismiss this story the first time your friend tells you a friend of a friend from high school that you just met at a party is a porn star. The second or third time you meet the kid and hear the same story, your curiosity gets the best of you. You Google to confirm or deny the allegation and kind of regret the Googling but are oddly intrigued. Regular discussions of the nuiances of his porn career now spring up every time this kid shows up at a party.
3. You doubt the economy is really in a recession because so many people can afford plastic surgery and luxury sports car. At the gym and beach, the plastic surgery work is so obvious, it makes even other women stop, stare and comment. On the road, every fifth car is a Range Rover, Aston Marton, Ferrari, Lamborgini or Maserati. Seriously? There are three or more luxury car dealers within five miles of your house. If there was really a recession, wouldn't at least a few of them closed their doors by now?
4. You suspect your neighbor is a drug dealer. From what you gather, he is home at all hours of the day yet manages to pay rent in a relatively pricey area, has visitors looking for him from 7:30a 'til 11:30p, and your living room constantly smells like wackey weed but you don't even know what 4:20 is. Initially you thought a skunk had sprayed but after the fifth day in a row of the smell, your naivete wears off and you reminisce about your favorite episode of "Weeds." Unfortunately he isn't as charming as Nancy Botwin.
There are definitely more of them, but these are the most humorous I could think of this evening.
