Higher latitude, yes. Higher profile; if you like Jethro Tull and your favorite song is Living In The Past, maybe.
If I hadn't been born and raised in LA, I wouldn't be a LSU freak and would have never had to read this thread.
If I had traded in my Super Computer for that Rolls Royce, I would not have been able to post my BCS calculations and everybody's head would have exploded from tension.