Do you like where you live and why.

[me]

Being from the mid west part of Wy I'd love to live there except for the winters which are cold and snowy.  The mountains are beautiful and the people are much more friendly than they are in In.

[The Troll]

Being from the mid west part of Wy I'd love to live there except for the winters which are cold and snowy.  The mountains are beautiful and the people are much more friendly than they are in In.

  I have heard it say, that population density has a lot to do with how friendly people are.  The more people, the less friendliness and low density like the Great Plains people look for people to associate with.   To me it makes sense.

[Anne]

  Anne you say your old house was torn down for a business  By chance it wasn't on the by-pass.  My wife's aunt and had lived on the by-pass for years and year, had told her that if they offered her enough money she would sell the house.  Well, about 3 years ago, they sold the house.  Must haved offered her enough.

Yes, I know exactly who you mean, they built their house in 54 I think. Our house was torn down for the Goodwill store. Your aunt's was where the little strip mall is just north of Charles St and the Goodwill. Your aunt and my parents were very close friends for many years. Her husband is not doing very well now.

[Anne]

Being from the mid west part of Wy I'd love to live there except for the winters which are cold and snowy.  The mountains are beautiful and the people are much more friendly than they are in In.

I would like to go there sometime. I haven't traveled out west much, mostly east and south. The rudest people I have encountered was in Windsor Canada. The clerks and hotel people were just snippy. I have heard that New Yorkers are friendly but I haven't been there.  Maybe that would be a nice topic, where you would like to go and things you want to see before you die?

[Sandy Eggo]

I would like to go there sometime. I haven't traveled out west much, mostly east and south. The rudest people I have encountered was in Windsor Canada. The clerks and hotel people were just snippy. I have heard that New Yorkers are friendly but I haven't been there.  Maybe that would be a nice topic, where you would like to go and things you want to see before you die?

I believe there's a thread around here somewhere like that.

[The Troll]

I would like to go there sometime. I haven't traveled out west much, mostly east and south. The rudest people I have encountered was in Windsor Canada. The clerks and hotel people were just snippy. I have heard that New Yorkers are friendly but I haven't been there.  Maybe that would be a nice topic, where you would like to go and things you want to see before you die?

  The rudest Canadains we ran into was in Florida.  They were from Quebec, very unfriendly and all of the American people we ran into down there said the same thing.  French Candianains, one guy said they are just as nasty as the French from Paris.  Along the French coast where we landed our troops, to save their asses, the French people treat Americans like gold.

  Years and years ago, my buddy and I were in Windsor.  We had seen Fish and Chips written of every restaurant window.  Thinking it might something special we went in one place.  We ordered and here came French fried fish and potato chips out of a sack wrapped in newspaper.  I said, this isn't anything special.  The owner and waitress said right out, what in hell did you expect.  I though it might be really good and this don't look to good.  She didn't smile about this answer.

  First thing she told us that our money wasn't worth as much a Canada's.  My friend said who cares it can't be that much.  She didn't smile.

  She started say bad things about President Eisenhower.  Even tho not an Eisenhower fan, I could let this go.  I said. "Well, we don't have to kiss the Queens ass."  She didn't smile, in fact she ordered out out.  I told we hadn't got to eat, she take it with you.  I said I came in to eat in here.  You throw us out we are going to pay for it.  She said, then eat it.  She stood over by the counter and glared at us while we slowly, very slowly ate our fish and chips.  Sure was fun.

[me]

  I have heard it say, that population density has a lot to do with how friendly people are.  The more people, the less friendliness and low density like the Great Plains people look for people to associate with.   To me it makes sense.

It isn't just an associate with people thing because even in the larger cities they are the same.  It's slower paced and during the winter months they have to rely on each other so it's a matter of survival in a lot of cases.  Most are trusting to a fault and would go out of their way to help another person, even a total stranger. 

[Sandy Eggo]

I'm not so sure. I think the people in NY City are very nice versus the people in Baltimore or Detroit (the later being the worst). San Diego is an extremely friendly city. Yet, when I visted a small town in Arkansas b/c a relative lived there, the people were not friendly at all.

[Anne]

My in-laws took my kids back east to visit a little town my father-in-law grew up in. They were going to visit his sister. It had two churches, a little grocery, a hardware store, two bars and a radio station. When they got there everyone in town knew they were coming, my kids names and ages, and how long they were staying. It was broadcast on the radio. This was about 30 years ago.

[The Troll]

I'm not so sure. I think the people in NY City are very nice versus the people in Baltimore or Detroit (the later being the worst). San Diego is an extremely friendly city. Yet, when I visted a small town in Arkansas b/c a relative lived there, the people were not friendly at all.

  I think it funny to walk in a small resturant or bar in a real small town in the deep South.  They People stare at you as you walk in.  Stare at you while you are there and stare at when you walk, but won't even reconized that you are there with a nod or a hello.  It really make you feel odd the first time it happens to you.  After that happens, it funny to see how they act when you try to get their eye.

[The Troll]

Yes, I know exactly who you mean, they built their house in 54 I think. Our house was torn down for the Goodwill store. Your aunt's was where the little strip mall is just north of Charles St and the Goodwill. Your aunt and my parents were very close friends for many years. Her husband is not doing very well now.

  My wife said, you really must know aunt Garnet and uncle David.  She said, small world isn't it.

[Anne]

Yes it is. I know my mom and Garnet knew each other before either of them were married back in the 40's. There were 4 couples who ran around together, my parents, your aunt and uncle, Tom and Martha and Katy and Hank. My dad died in the late 60's, then Katy and Martha and Tom and then my mom in the late 80's. Just your aunt and uncle and Hank are still living. They had good times, square dancing, going out, playing cards, New Year's Eve parties. Good old days, huh?