John, the east coast of North America (south of Canada, north of Mexico) does not, alas, exist. You are misinformed. What people think is there is entirely a creation of the University of Chicago school of criticism, made up to serve as a straw bugbear. (Just like the San Francisco Bay area poets and Berkeley were made up.) I should know: I get mail via New York on the "east coast". It's dreamlike.
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