East, MidWest, South, and West

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<p>What do you think the differences are? Feel free to add any other regions.</p>

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<p>Generally speaking, the west has bigger mountains and very tall trees, the midwest has more agriculture, the east has more angst, and the south has pickups and great fried food.</p>

<p>Sort of like that?</p>

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<p>sure</p>

<p>I've never been to the West...</p>

<p>I'm from the MidWest, and I find it to be friendly and very down-to-earth.
I'm attending an elite college in the East, and it's a bit pretentious, elitist, and everyone is concerned with image. However, when I get out of the college, I manage to find very friendly people. My family is from the South, granted they are from a poorer region in Kentucky, and I love visiting them. There's a nice sense of community and family there even though everyone lives far from each other tucked into a mountain somewhere.</p>

<p>I'm wondering how much of the elitism and pretention I find is a result of regional factors vs. how much is a result of economic factors and the fact that this is a highly ranked college.</p>

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<p>Are you asking about the geographic regions themselves or about the people who live in them?</p>

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<p>cultural, people, etc.</p>

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<p>Southern hospitality isn't a myth. Unless of course you're driving.</p>

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<p>Southerners have funny accents. Though new yorkers and bostoners do too.</p>

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<p>I have lived and/or spent a lot of time in all four areas, and I can tell you that the similarities are far greater than the differences. We are all Americans after all. But having said that I have noticed a few differences:</p>

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<li> In the west pedestrians passing on the street make a lot more eye contact with each other than they do on the east coast. Easterners seem much more closed into their own world in this respect.</li>
<li> Many easterners are more impatient than people from the other three parts of the country.</li>
<li> Most midwesterners are open and friendly, but you also run into a fair amount of passive/aggressive false friendliness.</li>
<li> Westerners are often very casual, sometimes assuming a first-name basis with someone where something more formal might be more appropriate.</li>
<li> The kindest and friendliest place I ever lived was New Mexico.</li>
<li> You can find both friendly/kind and mean/angry people no matter where you go.</li>
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