Having lived in L.A. before the Bay Area, my impression is that the population of L.A. is (on average) significantly more status-anxious than the Bay Area LW community, but the population of L.A. is (on average) much less able to talk coherently about it.
People from the Bay Area famously have contempt for Los Angeles and SoCal culture. One way of showing status is by conspicuously showing that you don’t care about the status signifiers of another group.
Having lived in L.A. before the Bay Area, my impression is that the population of L.A. is (on average) significantly more status-anxious than the Bay Area LW community, but the population of L.A. is (on average) much less able to talk coherently about it.
People from the Bay Area famously have contempt for Los Angeles and SoCal culture. One way of showing status is by conspicuously showing that you don’t care about the status signifiers of another group.