“I’m from Texas and travel to California for work.
I was shocked by all the warning labels of everything that could give me cancer.
The most surprising one was at Starbucks.”
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Updated 8 years ago,August 1, 2017
I visited Upstate NY from Texas.
The thing that threw me off was the bottle returns.
Always thought that was a cool concept to encourage recycling.
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The South is fucking slow.
I dont mean dumb, I mean the pace of everything is just so slow.
How incredibly nice people are in Colorado.
People just walking by or riding their bikes by you and always saying hi/asking how you are.
Liquor sold in grocery stores.
I am from Georgia.
Im from Texas and travel to California for work.
I was shocked by all the warning labels of everything that could give me cancer.
The most surprising one was at Starbucks.
Visited Seattle a couple months ago to see a friend.
No one said yall but instead said you guys.
My friend (we met on the internet) was shocked that I had no Southern accent.
He thought Gumbo was a bang out of shrimp… he was thinking of jumbo shrimp.
Also, no one had seen a tie dye before.
Yall got the best food, though!
Moving from a pretty small US nuclear site town where everyone had masters degrees in hard sciences to LA.
Lordy Lou, I love being in LA but there are some scientifically illiterate motherfuckers here.
You dont have to go far for a culture shock.
I lived an hour away from my dad growing up.
I lived in a suburb, he lived in a foresty mountain with a town population of under 1000.
From Socal and visited Oregon…
You cant pump your own gas.
They do not have self-service gas pumps.
Moved to Massachusetts from New Mexico.
Everyone in Massachusetts is an asshole, at least until you get to know them.
Some of them are assholes underneath too, though.
From Southern California, we visit our family in Montana.
My moms family is in Eastern Montana, my dads family is in Western Montana.
Its a lot more depressing than Eastern Montana thats for sure but way nicer than Southern California.
Also lots of Canadians.
I think there are more Canadian flags than there are American.
I dont know there is a big cultural difference from West to East Montana.
But compared to SoCal, Holy Cow!
Recently we were in the midwest a week.
There was also major food culture differences, Ohio piles on the portions.
Old ladies kept wanting to touch her hair, like it was gonna pop off or something.
From the North East, traveled to Hawaii this past winter.
I miss my Cousins.
Even if most were trying to sell me something, or Id already paid for their services.
They survive on their hospitality industry.
Still, lot of average day to day folk were very friendly.
HUGE homeless population though.
And I thought we had it bad here in the Northeast.
But at least theirs didnt seem to be as drug and alcohol related as merely easy going living.
I mean, yea few were strung out but most just were chill, tanned beach bums.
I could appreciate that a little.
I gave when I could.
Born and raised in small fishing town in Florida.
Recently went NYC for a week.
Jebus them some big buildings and people move like an ant colony but the people were actually very nice.
The traffic didnt seem like it ever moved so I dont understand the point of owning a car.
BUT I LOVED IT I cant wait to go back.
I live in Salt Lake City, Utah.
For those who dont know, Utah is overwhelmingly Mormon.
Its a very clean city, and even the bad parts of town are clean and safe.
The first time I went to Las Vegas I nearly had a panic attack.
I was a very uptight child and I had zero exposure to any adult oriented places.
Seeing ads for escorts and strip clubs everywhere nearly sent me into cardiac arrest.
Utah really is a bubble, but you dont realize it until you attempt to venture outside.
I grew up in Central Illinois but live in the south now.
Buying groceries was a huge shock.
In IL you dont talk to each other, rarely even to say the total.
In the South, you have full blown conversions.
It still makes me uncomfortable.
I love self-check outs.
Lived in LA since I was 18.
When I married my husband we moved to a small sleepy town in Idaho.
Biggest culture shock in our lives.
My husband was born and raised in New York City and moved to La.
We lived in WeHo (west hollywood) together.
We bought a home that would cost millions of dollars in WeHo for only 350.
Everything was so cheap.
There was no traffic.
No cup of smog in the morning.
I thought we moved to a different planet.
Growing up in NYC I never really considered how early places close in other states, specifically restaurants.
Just a crazy, small little thing that never even crossed my mind.
There is such a thing as too nice and Southerners are too.
He told me which stop I should get off of and I didnt see him again.
I went to Milwaukee and the highway ramps had stop and go lights.
I never saw something so absurd.
hahah Im so chaotic I cant wait to bring southern society to its knees!
No one gave a shit.
