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08-16-2021 11:28 AM
Was just in eastern LI staying with my Mom. i can't believe what has happened to the area i called home as a kid. the honking, tailgating, hollering. the home is on a short straight road now used as a short cut. Twice a day, one car after the next, Drivers fly down this street of tiny older homes as though this isn't a neighborhood with real people living there. i backed out of the driveway one day and a guy in a Benz yelled and honked at me for blocking him. due to Covid there are lots of new residents
08-16-2021 11:29 AM
I have lived in a few different states in my lifetime and find people are basically the same, no matter the location.
Living in the same location as the OP, I find the way people treat me is often based on my own mood. Rudeness I rarely if ever encounter and that stands for any state I have lived in. I have always believed, for the most part, if we are friendly and warm, we get back what we give... Sounds kind of Pollyanna but definitely has been my experience.
08-16-2021 11:33 AM
I live in a small town in Texas and most people in my neck of the woods are very friendly. I have to say, though, that my parents generation were the kindest people you could ever know (I am 70 just to give you perspective). Recently I stopped at a roadside vegetable stand and the little old man there appeared to be in his 80's. He was extremely polite and would say yes mam and no mam to me. I talked to him for a good bit and so enjoyed his stories about how his mother made cucumber and tomatoes in vinegar and all the other garden fresh things he loved. He took me back to a simpler place in time. I've stopped there several times now -not only for the best tomatoes ever - but, to just listen to him talk.
08-16-2021 11:46 AM
I live in NYC, the biggest city in the United States where most people are kind, warm, caring and polite all the time. And there are a lot of us, 8.8 million in the Big City by the most recent count, an all time high. For example, when I would stop walking in the sidewalk to catch my breath early in the pandemic, people stopped to ask me if I was OK, risking that I had covid, which I came to believe I had, though no test since it was early in the pandemic and all we had were homemade maks and sanitizer. When I fell another day, 2 people ran over to help me up before I hit the ground. NYCers are the best!!!!
❤️❤️❤️
As Spike Lee just said this morning, the greatest city in all earth!!!
We've had a few bad ones, but they moved!
08-16-2021 11:48 AM
@NYCLatinaMe wrote:
I live in NYC, the biggest city in the United States where most people are kind, warm, caring and polite all the time. And there are a lot of us, 8.8 million in the Big City by the most recent count, an all time high. For example, when I would stop walking in the sidewalk to catch my breath early in the pandemic, people stopped to ask me if I was OK, risking that I had covid, which I came to believe I had, though no test since it was early in the pandemic and all we had were homemade maks and sanitizer. When I fell another day, 2 people ran over to help me up before I hit the ground. NYCers are the best!!!!
❤️❤️❤️
As Spike Lee just said this morning, the greatest city in all earth!!!
We've had a few bad ones, but they moved!
I totally agree with you @NYCLatinaMe . New York is my ❤️.
08-16-2021 11:49 AM
It all comes down to one's perspective.
When I returned to the DC area from New York, I recall standing in the aisle at the grocery store, someone walked in front of me and said "excuse me." Wait, what?? I had not heard that in the years that I had been gone.
Of course, some will tell you people in the DC area are not very friendly and rude if you are from a smaller city.
To me, there are friendly and not so friendly people everywhere in the country. It does not have to be indicative of any certain geographic location.
08-16-2021 11:49 AM
I live in a BIG city...Number 5 in the U.S...we are very casual, and friendly (without being "gushy")...
It's the TOURISTS who are rude. I worked in a resort....and have been called names that can't be posted here (or anywhere). I guess they figure since they are "paying guests"....they can get away with anything.
08-16-2021 11:54 AM
Has zero to do with city rural suburb-any of that. Or geographical area. There are polite people and rude people everywhere. I have traveled to many different parts of this country, including rural South (there were polite people there, and rude unfriendly people).
To think that it's geographical is stereotyped narrow thinking.
08-16-2021 11:57 AM
I live in a Midwestern town with about 100,000 people. It used to be a lot friendlier. Now, I see people always in a hurry, drivers are very impatient and people generally are just not as friendly as they used to be.
When you do encounter friendly, helpful people you are kind of shocked, as it is not the norm.....It is not a totally unfriendly city, but its not the friendliest I have ever been to! I have never lived anywhere else to compare it to, only other cities travelled to!
08-16-2021 11:58 AM
@Trinity11 wrote:I have lived in a few different states in my lifetime and find people are basically the same, no matter the location.
Living in the same location as the OP, I find the way people treat me is often based on my own mood. Rudeness I rarely if ever encounter and that stands for any state I have lived in. I have always believed, for the most part, if we are friendly and warm, we get back what we give... Sounds kind of Pollyanna but definitely has been my experience.
I agree with everything that you have said. It is so much easier to be kind and compassionate.
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