Friendliness and location
 

A hot topic in class tonight. What are the differences you notice between different regions (or cities) and friendliness and other personality traits?

The only region I've been outside the midwest was the south, I do notice people will speak to me randomly whether they know me are not and are offended when you don't speak first (almost got into a fight once over this when I visited a certain southern state when I was younger).

Florida people are really mean, in my experience.

And I had a huge culture shock when I came to school from my town (pop. 400), even though it's only 45 minutes away. The people here are more rude, they drive recklessly, and they aren't very friendly. :( I just can't believe the difference...

Oh, yeah, and the cops are arses here, also.

I think cops in the Midwest are mean...

People in the real West are usually nice though!

Cops in the Midwest--mean? LOL I've gotten out of hundreds of dollars in tickets--they're pushovers... Especially the cute young ones ;)

Wellll... I will go back on that to some extent; it depends on the stretch of highway, too. But for the most part I've found cops to be pretty darn nice.

As for people in general, Midwesterners are pretty nice... I didn't really like LA when I was there. I lived in the KS suburbs of KC and people weren't overly kind there... actually at school people could be pretty mean, but that's partly just teens in general... I moved from there to a town that hardly has any sidewalks... people are pretty nice there, but mainly because EVERYBODY knows you and the only way to get away with anything is to be nice to everybody (or that's one way to look at it :))

Mmm..I've noticed that northern Ohio (mostly Cincy & Columbus are pains..) some parts of WV and yes, I agree with the statement of Floridians. *nods*
Here everyone basically says hi or whatnot when passing someone on the street. Bad side of this is when you're used to doing that and when you visit somewhere else and do that, they give you this really weird look. I guess you just can't show friendliness anymore :p

People down here are super-friendly. No one wants to disappoint their mama by being known as rude ;)

Down here, even if a woman is being rude, she'll say it in the nicest way possible. Think Julia Sugarbaker from Designing Women. We tell it like it is :)

One of my roomates is from the midwest, and boy is she ever a passive agressive piece of work. And I've encountered that from other people from that area too. Must be all that snow or something.

Well, in all honesty, I have only had a run-in with one there and they were probably meaner to me b/c I had out-of-state tags. I bae my assumption off the fact that on roadtrips, I have seen them go over their stateline and follow speeders from the next state back into their jurisdictions... jerks!

Oh, by the way... I totally know what you mean about talking your way out of tickets! I've done that so much!

Wow... I'm in MO and the worse I've seen are cops around Springfield whip it around in medians on the interstate to pull people over who are traveling the other way... besides that I got pulled over for going 54 in a 45--supposedly 45 b/c of construction but I went back and looked and it HAD said 55 which was why I had been accelerating in the first place :rolleyes: But she didn't give me a ticket and I attribute that incident more to her ignorance/stupidity than being mean :)

I don't know about all the friendliness stuff, but I do know California girls are the best in the world. Mostly every girl I have ever known was a strong, independent person.

Sadly to say...most girls from the south are the opposite, dumb, blonde and need a guy to do everything for them.

How is blonde the opposite of strong and independent?!

Dude, I love those bimbo blonde type.......


Now, when I have a girlfirend or when I decide to get married.....the chick has to have some sort of brains......I can't stand it when you actually try to talk to a chick instead of trying to get into her panties and she ends up being a bimbo.....pisses me off.

This is definitely not true. :rolleyes:

I was kiddin about the blonde part...it was directed towards a certain someone here, heh.

I think people in Florida are nice.....



German chicks are even nicer......

Though not all that well traveled, I have found it doesn't matter where I go, people are great! If YOU walk around with a smile, you usually get one in return!:D

Very few people I can't talk to and get a laugh from. Now about my NEIGHBORS..........

I've travelled around a little bit and the nicest people I have met are probably the French and the Northwesterners. When I studied in France, I found the people there to be incredibly thoughtful, kind and helpful. Same for people in Seattle, Montana and Idaho - very kind and generous.

The south was nice but with my Yankee accent I got a few stares and Civil War stories. The MidAtlantic (especially NJ and PA) are a mixed bag.

There's an old joke about how you can tell who's who in Manhattan:

- The natives are walking along, totally oblivious to anything around them.
- The tourists are gawking at all the skyscrapers.
- The folks from the suburbs are constantly looking around them, paranoid that someone's going to snatch their purse/wallet/jewelry at any moment.

The sad thing is - it's true!

People here in Oklahoma tend to be fairly nice... Once you get out into the small towns though watch your back:D They're real nice to your face but they are REALLY apprehensive to out of towners.

gotta luv the Midwest. people from ND and MN are the nicest. NE is ok, but I think I got lucky cause Creighton people are the most welcoming I've found.
Aspen is good too as long as you don't mind the occasional snob.

I think it def depends on your current location and who you feel is friendly vs. rude. Like I am from VA and find northeners (new yourk ecsp.) loud and outspoken.. which to me is very rude but to them they see nothing wrong with it. I also think that pace of life can be a bit stnad offish to me.. I am use to a slower pace of life and when I go to visit my boyfriend's family in Chicago I feel very overwhelmed by the people and the life there. There are rude and friendly people everywhere you go.. I think its just a matter of perspective.

True! That's the only thing we agreed on. No matter where you go, if you flash a smile you will more than likely get one in return.