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Why are people in the Southwest and the Western US in general so weird and hard to befriend/cold?
So I have been living in the Phoenix Metro area for the past 4 years or so and have noticed that people here and also in California and Oregon and even in Utah are just strange in general. They are not easy to warm up to and seem to have no feelings or emotions. It's like talking to a stone pillar or something. I am from Florida and also lived in NYC and have never dealt with more stony and rigid folks than I have out here. It's not only Arizona, the West in general seems to be like this. The people here are super hard to befriend and very cliquey. Florida is sorta like this but not to this extreme. At least in Florida you can make conversation with some people. Even NYC is IMO a bit more friendly even though the people can be stuck up and very rude. The people here seem to have this thing where they will say hello and have basic manners but that's about as far as it'll go. They don't want to be friends with you and do not talk to or socialize with anyone but their own friends and family. They are also very unworldly and know nothing about anything outside their little bubble. On the East Coast at least people are more aware of international events and culture.
So......not everyone here in Arizona or the West is like this. I have met many kind people here as well BUT the majority of people seem to fit this kind of dry and icy personality, in particular the women.
So do any other transplants to Arizona or the West feel this way?
3 Answers
- FoofaLv 71 year ago
Out here in the west we tend to turn out homes into recreational centers so we never have to leave them. Cities like Phoenix and L.A. don't necessarily have "downtowns" where people congregate and walk a lot (largely due to the weather being so hot much of the time). There's little public transportation to speak of and traffic is awful. So people just go out as they need to then hunker down into their houses the rest of the time. Not much opportunity to meet and socialize.
- Mike M.Lv 51 year ago
As someone who was born and raised in California (Colorado now), I can agree with this. I can only speak for California though, because people in Colorado are generally pretty friendly for the most part.
In the case of California, there's a slight difference in mentality between North and South California. Southern Californians seem to fit the stereotype of vain, materialistic, fake, and stuck up behavior a bit more than Northern California, being closer to Hollywood and everything.
Northern Californians (closer to the Bay Area anyway) are more broke on average and are just rough around the edges sometimes, and they're a bit careful with who they trust.
I hate California because of this and I'm not proud to be from there.
- Anonymous1 year ago
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Wasn't always like this. But times change and I blame it on overpopulation. And numbness per generation. The more kids are born, the less grateful the youngest generations become.
I also believe that due to overpopulation, our attitudes change because there's so much noise. Activity. Chaos. It's fast paced.
People just want their privacy and their own space.
I was a hermit from cold California. Then I moved to Utah and it was warm and friendly. My dad was from Hawaii. It was warm and friendly there too. Now... everything is just cold. Distant. Disconnected.
