No man - California is the cultural, technological, and increasingly economic center of the world; and it's not too shabby as far as agriculture goes either. Now, everybody hates that this is true; but it is true.

lol whut thucy?

California is drying up literally and metaphorically, and it's far away from everything else. Next contestant

Yeah, California is fracked up. Move on.

Silicon Valley technology is in California! Television and movies! Porn! Those things are like 90% of what you spend your time on. "We look to Los Angeles, for the language we use" - even Morrissey lives here, for crying out loud.

Porn? California's doing its best to drive that industry away.

U srs bro?

Even better!

Porn comes from California? You clearly haven't been to Berlin or Amsterdam. They literally do porn as street art.

Actually Louisiana is taking California's place as the movie production capital of the country, too. Notch another one for tGOAT region of the universe.

http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2014/03/louisiana_outpaces_los_angeles.html

Hahaha. California laughs at your pathetic claims.

Laugh all you like, LA means Louisiana, not Los Angeles.

Things the Gulf Coast has better than anywhere else on Earth:
- Beaches
- Seafood
- Attractive people

What more do you honestly need?

They also throw the best parties down there.

It's actually the center of the world. Makes you think

reminder that the Silicon Valley bubbling is near-bursting as we speak

California, or at least the parts of it some of you people seem to admire is build on a faultline and is in perpetual drought. What possesses people to build cities on a dry section of faultline?

Southern California is one giant mall, in an area where standard agriculture is impossible without ridiculous irrigation projects, and happens to have an earthquake every now and then. The Indians did not live there as a general rule, and they had really good reasons for it.

^yeah you right

Beaches with petroleum tar balls.

Oh PE, if you think your beaches are the best in the world, I think you should travel a little more...

As far as the movie industry is concerned, Cali has been losing to many other states because of tax reasons...

Toronto Ontario

Best beaches EVER

Worst beaches in toronto. Most important place in the world though.

Uh...............yes and no....beautiful city though.

Speaking of Toronto, I saw the Jays play the Sox last night. Huge contingent of Jays fans in attendance.