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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have always found this tweet to be accurate:

https://br.ifunny.co/picture/jordan-green-when-i-describe-east-coast-vs-west-coast-tLkrwtOK9

I don't know much about the south, but I definitely prefer the way people in the northeast help out while minding their own business.

Jordan Green: When I describe East Coast vs West Coast culture to my friends I often say "The East Coast is kind but not nice, the West Coast is nice but not kind," and East Coasters immediately get it. West Coasters get mad.

New Yorkers will not say a single nice word for 15 minutes, whole time they're shoveling your car out of the snow for you

Stand at a flight of stairs in the NYC subway with a stroller. Someone will grab the other end, help you carry the stroller, and then walk away without saying a word. [/quote]

The narcissism of New Yorkers is always astonishing to watch in person. [/quote]

I don't know, I once got on a bus in NYC when I was visiting from out of town and realized I had left my wallet in the hotel room and a passenger stood up and announced that they were taking up a collection for me and a bunch of passengers dug into the pockets and purses and handed this guy coins all while barely acknowledging him or looking up from whatever they were reading.  I've had a soft spot for New Yorkers ever since.  [/quote]

[b]Living in NYC, I had the strongest "neighborhood" feel out of everywhere I lived --I knew all the shop-owners, my neighbors in the apartment building and just walking around, and they did more nice things for me than anywhere else.[/b]   I felt similar when I lived in Madison, WI, where people would just really help you out.  But one really strange thing there was I never experienced so much gossip! The second someone left, people would just spill all the tea about the person even if you were the most casual acquaintance.  This was across age groups, people associated with the college, people who were in the K-12 schools, people in businesses.  Even if you were a regular at a bar or coffee shop, you'd hear gossip about all the other customers. It wasn't  mean-spirited---it was just everything was fair game. I never knew so much about people that they didn't tell me directly.  I remember when I first moved there, being stunned in a meeting where a woman got up to go to the bathroom and someone else commented on how much she (the person who left) suffered from ovarian cysts, and someone else commented on how getting pregnant might help her, and then someone else talked about how hard she and her husband have been trying to get pregnant, and they started talking about her weight gain and how they thought maybe she was pregnant finally but "false alarm" etc.  and it went on from there all in these hushed tones, but audible to the group of like 8-10 people. And no one blinked or indicated this was TMI/not work-appropriate, but all went quiet the second she came back in the room.  And the two years I lived there, it just continued like that--everyone was really all up in everyone's business but rarely talked about it directly with them--just with all their friends and acquaintances. The gossip level seemed at least 10x what I was used to.  I had to cure myself of it a bit when I moved back East.

I'm not sure if it's more general or just a quirk of my time in the town, but my now-husband is from the Midwest and his calls from his mom are basically an endless stream of gossip about people he doesn't know, so I'm guessing it might be a more general theme. [/quote]

Did you live in Manhattan? [/quote]

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