Here’s a Californian example.
“Will you come to my thing?” “Yeah.” (Translation: maybe.)
“Will you come to my thing?” “Maybe.” (Translation: no.)
“Will you come to my thing?” “Lemme get back to you on that.” (Translation: fuck no, dude!)
It was all the worse in the days before cell phones, because at least now you’ll get texted at the last minute with a flimsy excuse. I didn’t know it was so abnormal until I left. Many Californians will straight up claim that there’s nothing wrong with it. Fuck no, dude!
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Tolls upon tolls upon tolls.
The cities are too sprawled. I’m lucky to be from one of like thirty walkable neighborhoods in the entire state of Texas. That number is too low.
The traffic sucks.
Hot as hell
The weather in late winter does actually start to get into the realm of “fuck, this is getting depressing.”
I say this as someone that loves snowshoeing and other winter activities.
Our city smells bad. We have a few major food processors and when the wind blows right it can smell like ass (Cargill). But man, on Crunchberry day downtown smells fucking wonderful.
“Its cold”
Well, its October and your refusing to wear more than a t shirt and shorts for whatever reason.
It’s true, I’ll admit it.
Charlotte NC does *not* have bagels that are as good as one the ones you transplants got in the northeast.
You guys can have that one. That *one *
It’s really cold
Yes, my city is mainly a big suburb without much big city character.
Clerks and wait staff are about 70% less likely to pretend they care about how your day is.
There’s a LOT of trash and, by proxy, rats.
Idk about shameful, but there are, in fact, Amish, here, and they are, in fact, legal users of the road and honking at them doesn’t make their horse go faster.
The shameful part is not only do out of staters not get it sometimes but instaters dont either.
I don’t know about ‘shamefully true’ but Michigan is a very car-centric state. We have little in terms of public transportation and walkable neighborhoods. It’s not a gripe for me personally, but the kids go crazy for walkable neighborhoods these days.
Also our winters catch a lot of people sleeping on them. Every transplant gets surprised at how cold and wet they are.
It’s expensive as hell to live here, and not just from taxes. MA actually ranks about in the middle of the road when it comes to overall tax burden, but housing prices, utilities, and other COL factors combined with more people wanting to move here than leave makes it costly.
The roads are terrible, and drivers are insane.
meet someone new and first thing: “so, what do you do?” I grew up in the DC area and thought this was 100% normal everywhere until i became older and people made jokes about it.
There are a lot of status obsessed assholes in DC. It’s a little like LA for ugly people.
I even recognize some of it in myself. If I’m tangentially involved with anything that gets news coverage I’m like “oh yeah, I was working there at the time blah blah blah.”
Worst Drivers.
Tucson: there’s a lot of trash along the roads. Lots of garbage along the highway and the city streets. I don’t understand why.
There’s no denying that Wyoming is windy, cold, and lonesome. I love living here, but it’s definitely not for everyone.
Lancaster, and central PA in general, has a lot of the worst aspects of rurality on display. I often dislike when people paint PA solely as “Philly in the east, Pittsburgh in the west, Alabama in the middle” or whatever, because there are in fact cities that aren’t Philly and Pittsburgh in this state, many of which (including the city of Lancaster!) are super cool. That said… When you get into rural areas in PA, you end up seeing some really awful shit. The number of Confederate flags I’ve seen in this *northern state* is really absurd.
My running theory is that this happens because a lot of people in rural PA really badly want to embody the stereotypical image of rednecks from the Deep South or whatever, but they come from a state that mostly isn’t known for that culturally, and they’re insecure about it so they posture really hard.
EWR airport sucks and the area around it is a foul smelling industrial hellscape
College students don’t look before they cross the street.
> “Will you come to my thing?”
Finally got [the venue you wanted](https://youtu.be/XmRudyg48Ho?si=VNU9O7xwPUsGYoNt), huh?
When we had a family reunion in GA, almost everyone complained about humidity. Majority of our family is from out near Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Utah.
“Pedestrians just amble out into the middle of the road!”
Lol, yes, they do, you get used to it.
Yeah, the liquor laws suck. But they’re better than they used to be!
If you don’t drink, don’t expect to have much of a social life.
The humidity
We drink a lot and are kind of cheese crazy to an unhealthy extent. As for rhe city I moved from, on top of that outdoor fitness organic food obsessed far left leaning maniacs. Very opinionated and not shy about it.
Traffic is some of the worst in the country, our drivers are absolutely feral, it’s way too hot, way too much sprawl, the state politics suck, and even if my city is mostly democrats they’re still laughably corrupt.
It’s humid af… yes
In Texas when people are afraid of guns.
It’s a pretty common one, but we assure them that this is completely normal, and a lot of people here have guns and it’s their choice to carry.
There are indeed an alarming number of abandoned, dilapidated rowhomes in Baltimore. Whole blocks of them in some instances. It’s a serious problem we have with out-of-town developers speculatively buying up tons of properties all over the city and then pretty much just leaving them to rot for various reasons. There are genuinely some parts of town that look like the set of a zombie movie.
It snows here. Sometimes a lot.
That there’s mormons everywhere
My city is in decay and thick with racial tension. – Detroit