In many ways it is — (as weird as it seems) people seem to be a lot less suspicious, yet honest, here than in SoCal. I’ve never been told that I couldn’t view a property without my own broker present (for safety reasons) on the East Coast, for example.

Not to mention that we’re not freaked out by random street conversations. People in some parts of SoCal are so tied to the car/cell phone/work/home cycle and their own personal bubble that they’ve totally forgotten how to hold a conversation with a stranger.