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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, do you live in the DC area?[/quote]
Yes. Is it different elsewhere?[/quote]
Yes. Quite.
I have lived in DC, southern VA, SC, and north Florida. The kids in DC were the most impolite. The children in SC had the best manners (and no, before you ask DCUM, they weren't all racist Christian fundamentalists.) We now live in FL and *for the most part* the teens here make eye contact, use please and thank you, can have conversations with adults. I have never heard a parent permit a child to refuse to say hello, like I did in DC all the time. There is a higher expectation for kids to have manners and the good behavior is encouraged in schools.[/quote]

Very interesting. But aren't the majority of DC parents transplants? I would think they would bring some of the values you've experienced elsewhere with them. And yes - OMG not requiring a kid to say hello is one of my personal pet peeves. I will drill that into my kids if I have to die trying![/quote]

Even I am more polite when I am out of here. There is a rude vibe - the competition, the stress... When you realize, you are doing the same. [/quote]

NP.  My impression is the opposite.  Kids are kids everywhere but elsewhere, people are more tolerant of normal kid behavior, more relaxed.  [/quote]

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