Regional Contrast Quotes

I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, where you can see not just for a few miles but for a few hundred miles.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

We grew up in the South, but in a very liberal household - both our parents are from the Northeast.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.

I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.

I think there's a big difference between New York and Chicago.

After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.