Bostonites will give you the shirt of their back but will berate 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?
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.
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”
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!!
Between kind and polite I’d always choose kind. Actually helping is much better than sugar coating every interaction with nothing to back that up. Empty politeness is just disgusting IMO, either help and it’s your choice to be nice about it or not. But if you’re gonna pretend to be all friendly and nice and then not ever go beyond that you can go fuck yourself.
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.
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
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
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
My friend once said that East Coast is not polite but kind, and West Coast is polite but not kind
Bostonites will give you the shirt of their back but will berate 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?
you forgot the “, kid?” or “, bub?” at the end, but otherwise accurate.
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.
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”
I’m shocked you don’t apologize to them for their bad driving.
Sorry
Thats cause you’re canadian
Seems likely
Sounds like my kind of people.
facts. give me impolite kindness 100% of the time.
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!!
Which option do you prefer?
Between kind and polite I’d always choose kind. Actually helping is much better than sugar coating every interaction with nothing to back that up. Empty politeness is just disgusting IMO, either help and it’s your choice to be nice about it or not. But if you’re gonna pretend to be all friendly and nice and then not ever go beyond that you can go fuck yourself.
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.
The South is kind and polite… to your face.
^results may vary by race^
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
The US south often fits the west coast definition here as well
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.
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.
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
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
As a Californian, I can confirm half the drivers here get their habits from playing too much GTA V.
Good thing VI is coming soon, hope the habits are updated
(That takes place in florida tho so the joke doesn’t work as well)
No wonder I feel at home in the north east, but here I am in Texas where people will gladly vote against their best interrest.
2pac/biggie in a nutshell.
Nah my sister’s a cunt but she makes friends everywhere she goes.