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[quote=Anonymous]This thread is cracking me up. I grew up in the MidWest and have lived in CA Bay Area (where I am now), PNW, NE-Boston/Cambridge, and DC. The stereotype about the PNW-er with the cart is so true! DH is from Seattle area, and we had a similar encounter with a biker on a 10ft wide mixed use path who gave DH a huge lecture about not getting out of the way for her bell when she had like 6 ft of clearance to go around us.

While I've spent more than half my life elsewhere, the MidWest is still where I feel culturally most comfortable. But overall I, counterintuitively, actually think Boston/Cambridge was the easiest place to live. I feel like you always know where you stand, and there is a genuineness to encounters there. In classic fashion, I was once walking down the street and got cussed out by a driver while I was crossing a street in the crosswalk when I had right of way, because well...they were a Boston driver. But 3 blocks later I was looking for a place and must have looked confused, because a nice person stopped to help me without my asking. Boston, I swear, has the kindest, biggest-hearted, and rudest people in the country!

I moved to Cambridge from Seattle, and a couple of my Seattle freinds were from NE...and when asked they complained how Seattle was so fake and hard to make friends. I tend to agree, actually.

The person who said the thing about Californians being oblivious was spot on. I totally remember that and really struggling with it when I first moved here from the MidWest. It's like people don't bother to care at all about anyone but themselves. And I remember talking about that with a friend who was a native Californian from Berkeley, and she was like, "That's what I love about California! You don't have to think about anyone but yourself!"

It's pretty interesting how different cultures are across the US. I guess my advice is that now that you can identify what's different, it might be easier to adapt to it or at least tolerate it beause you understand it.. And maybe try to find the upsides as well.[/quote]

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