Culture Shock

[Zinnia-Hen]

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OOOH, accents....ok, here's one....tell me if you pronounce these names differently:

Don vs. Dawn

Aaron vs. Erin

Pauly vs. Polly


Where I am now, they're pronounced the same. Where I come from, there's an obvious difference....which I don't know if I can type but can certainly say.

Im in wa state and they all sound when I say those names

Same.

 

[danielle82]

I was born and raised in the west side of washington state, when I was 21 I moved to the north central part of washington, and it is very different living in the small towns over here. No stop lights, open range cattle with cattle grates in the roads (dirt roads) the closest fast food place was 44 miles away. EVERYTHING shuts down at 9 pm gas stations, restaraunts, grocery stores etc, bars would stay open till 10 on week nights. I thought most the people out here were mentally slow, but then you get to know them and realize they just traded in their watches for calenders...time is just slower in the small towns I guess. Now I Love it here (I also moved to a different town where we have a 24 hour gas station AND a subway in it! Woohoo city living haha)

 

[hikerchick]

Scoop- it may be a York County thing. York County is my only experience with this state.

I have noticed also here a great reluctance to travel much beyond where they live. Someone I know dubbed the Susquehanna River the "Susquehanna Ocean" because people act like it is a major deal to cross over from York to Lancaster. I also found that the people who were born and raised here had no interest in meeting me or getting to know me.. It's like they had their lives set up before I moved here and don't need or want any new friends. I have been here over 8 years and the only friends I have made are people who have moved here from somewhere else.

 

[Scoop]

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Ohhhh, I noticed the same thing. Like so many people here look at my like I'm from Mars when I say I went 20 miles to the south (you have to go over a tiny mountain) to shop. It's like they feel as if you can't go in that direction because the mountain is stopping them!

In general they just stick to their town and don't venture anywhere, not even the beach!!! I've gotten that same feeling about how they have their lives already set up. When I get this negative vibe that they don't feel as if you are worthy of their friendship I just tell them I love my quiet life just the way it is. Honestly, it's the truth, I don't like stuck up people anyway.
I'm sitting here thinking about the friends I have here and you are right! They all came from somewhere else!!! Whoah!!! That is so weirddddd!!!

 

[redhen]

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Really??? What part of Maine did McDonalds have lobster cakes??
Hubbys parents live in Maine... so we go there to visit.
I'll be looking at all the McDonalds now!!

Most of the McDonald's around here serve lobster rolls in the summer. Not great ones but not too bad for a national franchise.

Up this way it is soda and not pop. We stand in a line not on a line. We have aunts not ants. And if you weren't born here you are from away no matter how many years you live here. And since this is a family forum I won't say what people from Massachusetts are called.

LOL! OOh yeah, we get called lots of good names here in Mass..

The only thing i've heard Maine folks called is Maniacs...

 

[redhen]

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We call that "Goulash"(with the macaroni and hamburg and tomato sauce).., American Chop Suey... and sometimes i'll hear it called Goulash also..

 

[AquaEyes]

While we're talking about food, what are some of the "local favorite" dishes that your home-town area is known for?

 

[Zinnia-Hen]

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Salmon and A LOT of fruit, blackberries grow like weeds here.

 

[desertdarlene]

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OOOH, accents....ok, here's one....tell me if you pronounce these names differently:

Don vs. Dawn

Aaron vs. Erin

Pauly vs. Polly


Where I am now, they're pronounced the same. Where I come from, there's an obvious difference....which I don't know if I can type but can certainly say.

Those are all pronounced similar where I come from. Sometimes, Pauly and Polly are slightly different (i.e. pawly and pahly) and Don and Dawn might be slightly different (Dahn and Dahwn), but not as much as some people in the New York/New Jersey area or New England.

 

[desertdarlene]

Where I live now, it's all Mexican food. When I lived in Detroit, it was either Greek or English foods. It was much easier to have a traditional English holiday meal when I was a kid in Detroit than it is out here in San Diego.