[quote=spdrun]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.[/quote]
Until you take your kid to a park. There is always some other parent or grandparent ready to pounce. Just this morning I listened for 15 minutes on how lazy the youth in Ireland has become.