I was being facetious about the fat thing. Culture you can get in certain other places, but not everywhere. Many ethnic foods are only (well) represented in California, NY, and Chicago. If you don't care you don't care, but if you do it can be a deal breaker.
I wasn't necessarily directing the comment at you (I hadn't even seen your other comment), but generally to people who say they dislike California. It's a shitty attitude, so it feels a bit rich to then claim "the fact that you're expressing being offended is exactly why I was justified in being shitty". Blah. It's all bullshit. Ignorant opinions don't deserve a positive attitude in response.
And BTW, you see this ignorance in California itself. People in Southern California think Northern California is a burning crime-ridden hellscape. People in the North think SoCal is shallow and materialistic.
They're jealous because they're too poor to live in CA. They believe everything they hear on the news and don't realize that there's more to the state than wildfires and homeless people. They aren't cultured enough to appreciate theater, fine cuisine, fine wine. They're too fat to surf.
Right. And that's what Linus lead with.