It’s a very accurate description of the Northeast. People will help you dig your car out of the snow while passively aggressively exhaling very loudly to emphasize how much of a pain it is. But then they’ll just walk away not even expecting a thank you.
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agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My friend once said that East Coast is not polite but kind, and West Coast is polite but not kind
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Canadian here, I’ve absolutely helped push multiple bozos cars out of snowbanks, silently cursing them the entire time for being such idiot bad drivers.
When they thank me at the end I always say “it’s no problem”
Leather@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I’m shocked you don’t apologize to them for their bad driving.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Sorry
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Thats cause you’re canadian
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Seems likely
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Sounds like my kind of people.
ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You know, as someone that’s live on both coasts for extended periods of time, that’s exactly right. I’ve never been able to explain it but that’s spot on. Thanks!!
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Which option do you prefer?
ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Well, deep down the east coast. But I live in the Salish Sea now and I’m not moving back to Maryland anytime soon, so I make do. It’s beautiful out here and I’m a hermit, it’s not so bad haha.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I think it’s far more north south than east west. The PNW is definitely kind, though they’re neither nice nor mean, more just uncomfortable you’re talking to them. Meanwhile the southeast gives California a run for their money in polite cruelty.
People are aware that without a culture built around it places like Alaska with 22+ hours of light/dark a day can make people a little crazy, but I think the inverse also can cause problems without a culture built around it. Winter is good for you even if it sucks
bluespin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The US south often fits the west coast definition here as well
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I dunno, I found people on the West Coast would go out of their way to accommodate my wife when she was unable to walk.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yeah people here are scared of making friends with their neighbors for some reason, but as a disabled person people look out for me.
Californians are angry in traffic.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Oh in traffic all that new England kindness goes away rapidly. If you impede them without needing help well they won’t ram you or wave a gun, so it’s better than Midwestern drivers, but they will honk their hearts out and cut you off
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
It’s def aggro driving but usually not stupid or insane. I never saw someone wildly cut across 3 highway lanes to make an exit til I moved to the midwest
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
As a Californian, I can confirm half the drivers here get their habits from playing too much GTA V.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Good thing VI is coming soon, hope the habits are updated
TheseusNow@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
No wonder I feel at home in the east coast, but here I am in Texas where people will gladly vote against their best interrest.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
2pac/biggie in a nutshell.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Nah my sister’s a cunt but she makes friends everywhere she goes.
Lydia_K@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bostonites will give you the shirt of their back but will brate you the entire time for being so fucking stupid that now I gotta give you my shirt you fucking idiot, don’t you think at all?