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Moving to Seattle-Seattleites, do you really hate non-natives?
shmokes:
How could anybody be scared by hackey sack hippies? I can hardly imagine a more docile, harmless creature.
I'm really surprised at this whole Seattle Freeze business. I've always heard that Seattlites are the friendliest people in the world. Obnoxiously friendly, even. I had a friend who lived there and she said that the second you turn on your turn signal on the freeway people will hit the brakes to let you in. She said whenever she sees them smiling and waving to her in her rear view mirror she feels homicidal. She's mostly kidding, of course, but she says that it's sometimes annoying, like that obnoxious coworker who's always smiling and talking to everyone like they're in kindergarten.
am_monkee:
Shmokes, I too was surprised by this, but if you google it, there are quite a few articles on the subject. The head of the sociology dept. at UW has discussed this at length.
Coming from Chicago and NY, docile creatures like hacky sack hippies are a foreign, strange people. Their friendly ways and nonviolent protests confuse us. That patchuli smell that wafts from their bodies makes us wonder...
;D
bfauska:
The Sci-fi meuseum is in the EMP blob.. er.. I mean building.
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Turn signals? :laugh2: There are eough Californians up here now that turn signals can neither be expected or trusted ( I lived in CA for 4 years and speak from experiance.)
Oddly the more hippie-like a place is lately the ruder the people are. It is totally counter-intuitive, but it is because now the cool thing for rich people to do is be hippies. The big natural grocery store around here is Whole Foods and the customers in that place are obnoxious. The employees are friendly, but the people shopping have no manners what-so-ever. Trader Joes too, which sucks, because Trader Joes has good stuff for good prices.
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Now the hippies bouncing bean-bags off of their feet on the other hand are plenty nice, especially if you share their mellow non-buzz-kill lifestyle.
shmokes:
God I love Trader Joes. They would never exist in Utah cos only the state can sell liquor/wine/real beer. I guess I don't care at this point since I'm moving in a few months (wonder if Miami has Trader Joe's), but whenever my brothers from San Francisco, or my friends from Las Vegas visit they always bring me loads of Trader Joe's dried mango. SO. ---smurfing---. GOOD.
am_monkee:
The also have a mango chutney that makes me actually question my atheism...
Trader Joe's just opened up in nyc a few months ago. Coming from Chicago where there are a couple TJs, I didn't find it to be a big deal, but man was I wrong. There was a ridiculous line down and around the block. It was kind of funny seeing bourgeoise Manhattanites wanting to be front and center of something new, even if it was a grocery store. :laugh2:
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