Traveling over 2,600 miles on our road trip up here, I expected to find a lot more differences along the way. I expected people to act differently from Texans, for the gas stations and stores along the road to be more different from what I was used to, and for the billboards to be more different. While we definitely traveled over a wide variety of landscapes and through a good number of towns, the thing that struck me wasn't how different everything was, but how similar it all was. Even now that we're in Seattle, while the people dress a little differently, they're still friendly and don't act much different than what I'm used to. Things may have been different 60 years ago before the media and national companies softened the cultural and linguistic differences between all the cities from coast to coast, but it's kind of crazy to me that we passed through several different states and over several thousand miles, but it's all so similar, and it's all America.
We moved to Seattle in February 2008 and shared blog posts and photos during our first few years in Seattle.
- Troy & Lesley H
Sunday, March 2, 2008
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good point, I'm sure that 60 years ago the differences were much more noticeable. but even now, if you live in a different place long enough (as I'm sure andy would attest and as even I can attest due to having relatives in the Midwest) you can definitely see regional differences.
I like how no one seems to recognize that I also live in a different part of the country.
I have always felt that Americans copy-paste everything. I have traveled some and for the most part things look the same. I mean, yes there are differences like weather, the way streets are set up and wat not but it seems that no matter where you are you will find many similarities to the place you are coming from.
I don't think Mexico is like that. Every state is different. I remember being surprised about the whole copy-paste thing the first year I was here.
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