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=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.
You can always politely (or less politely) say you’re busy if that happens. Conversation with strangers is becoming a lot art in some of the US.[/quote]
A few months back I went running in mission bay park and around fiesta Island for the first time in decades. It was mid day.
I smiled and waved at most of the runners bikers, walkers etc. The response was terrible. I think maybe two people managed some kind of greeting. By the end I was finding it amusing, but very sad too! I wondered to myself….are they all on drugs?
Runners seem self-absorbed. Bikers are nice to other bikers. I told my kids it’s rude not to acknowledge a fellow biker, and now they try to annoy every person riding a bicycle.
