“The way people treat winter here is adorable.
Life stops in the snow and they act like winter means they have to live under house arrest.”
Here are the most interesting responses:
1.
In Los Angeles, people just keep their head down and ignore everyone around them."
carolines4f3e1a91c
2.
“I moved from the upper midwest to the Mid-Atlantic.
The way people treat winter here is adorable.
Life stops in the snow and they act like winter means they have to live under house arrest.
Also, the lack of cheese selection compared to Wisconsin makes me want to cry.”
The traffic was overwhelming enough as it was!"
norty
4.
“I lived in Memphis and moved to Southern California.
I feel California is a safer place to raise my daughter.
She has bodily autonomy and her school has a robust learning center for kids who need additional help.
We wouldn’t get that in Tennessee.”
blueshark77
5.
“I lived in Boston for college after moving from Minnesota.
My east coast friends never gave full hugs, and every side hug felt like a rejection.”
meganw13
7.
“I moved from California to New York.
In my California city, courtesy was the default setting.
Anonymous
8.
The bills are upside down and backwards no matter where you go.
In New York, I never saw that because money was always face forward and right side up.
It just seems lazy and sloppy.
I get strange looks when I fix my cash to face up and forward.”
It is a very rural setting.
It surprised me how laid-back it is here compared to big cities."
“I moved from Indiana to Idaho and the wind is wild!
We have over 20 miles per hour sustained winds for days at a time.
I hate it.”
mymushy
11.
“I lived in Illinois and moved to Colorado.
It shocked me how poorly they plow the streets here.
My street in Colorado has literally never been plowed, and I’ve been here almost seven years.”
“I moved from Iowa to Texas.
If you drive two hours in Texas, youre barely a county over because its HUGE.
The sheer size of Texas is no joke.”
“Our family moved from rural Ohio to El Paso, Texas.
The desert was the biggest shock.
The heat and the lack of trees and water compared to Ohio was wild.
“I moved from Georgia to the Bay Area 10 years ago.
The biggest shock was how different the beaches are!
Summer at the beach in Georgia is hot and the water is warm.
It makes for some wildly different beach day experiences.”
“I moved from California to Minnesota.
It felt like moving to a different country!
I love the changing seasons, how friendly people are and how safe I feel in a smaller town.
What was a shock to me was how so many people dont ever leave Minnesota.
My sister-in-law literally lives a mile from where she grew up.
So many people have no desire to even travel.
They ‘go up north’ to a cabin in the summer and just never leave the state.”
arianaebersviller
16.
“I moved from Arizona to Kentucky and the biggest change is the weather.
anagrant112
17.
“A few years ago, I moved from Kentucky to Colorado.
I never knew that climate could be dry and pleasant on a 90 degree day.
Kentucky is a humid cesspool.”
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