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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
but if you had this conversation with one of your coworkers in NYC:
coworker: "i'm headed out to the west coast next week"
you: "oh cool, where are you going?"
coworker: "denver"
wouldn't that seem really fucking weird to you?
now you understand why someone in LA calling chicago east coast seems really fucking weird to me.
denver and chicago are similar distances from salt water.
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Geographically, you're right. But Chicago is often grouped in with the cities east of it, while Denver is usually considered distinct from the cities west of it.
Maybe it doesn't seemed weird to me because whenever I was in California as a kid nobody seemed to distinguish between Detroit and the rest of the east. The last time this conversation popped up on here I had just flown back from L.A., and I distinctly remembered that a flight to Atlanta was departing from the next gate over and people kept referring to the flight as "going to the east coast".