Culture shock from a bicoastal move (cost, places, America, Atlanta)
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Anyone experience anything similar? I did when I moved from the Atlanta area to San Diego. It was like moving to a different country. It was a completely different culture: people talked different, dressed different, listened to different types of music, etc.
I've only lived in the South and Southwest, so no huge culture shock between them.
Visiting different places (like NYC, Boston, and to some extent LA/SF) have been slight culture shocks, but nothing like when I lived in abroad. NY was probs the most different in the US for me though (not in a bad way at all, just different).
Lived in three continents 4 countries and bicoastal, I am quite blasé and unfazed by moving. I love moving.
The Buzzfeed quotes sound like a recent college graduate who never leaves their hometown. You have to “drive everywhere”? Americans complaining about having to drive is like the French complaining having to eat cheese. It may not be the healthiest thing, but it’s a part of your cultural DNA.
No culture shock for me, but more or less if I’m going to get bored.
I feel like we overexaggerate culture shock in this country. We're generally pretty similar all over the country, nothing like India where there are a hundred different native languages.
East Coast and West Coast are both so large and with so much internal variation that aside from weather where the West Coast generally, unless you really expand the definition of West Coast, has a moderate band of seasonal variation and the ocean is generally cold all year, the variations are much more about one city vs another. The post-war suburbs of all these areas are especially similar.
"I grew up in New York, but moved to Hollywood in my late twenties (around 2007). It was a real culture shock. You had to keep moving your car on your street for street sweeping. Plus the houses, even small and ugly, cost millions."
You have to do this in NYC, I just did it at 8 am this morning in Baltimore...
"I grew up in New York, but moved to Hollywood in my late twenties (around 2007). It was a real culture shock. You had to keep moving your car on your street for street sweeping. Plus the houses, even small and ugly, cost millions."
You have to do this in NYC, I just did it at 8 am this morning in Baltimore...
Yea, and same with the cost of housing being ridiculous. Perhaps the difference for that person was not having a car at all in NYC since it's much more doable there, otherwise it's difficult to understand how they missed the street sweeping and alternate side parking.
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