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^ who doesn't know what hella means? My friends in small town Iowa say hella.
Bay area culture is becoming invasive. Pretty soon your friends are going to be telling 'epic' burrito stories and driving around town in their 'core' (car).
I have a friend from San Diego and she said 'Hella' during a conversation and then, in a moment of self-realization said, "I sound like I'm from San Francisco, eww!"
^ who doesn't know what hella means? My friends in small town Iowa say hella.
Your group of friends in Iowa prabobly say "hella" less than half as many times per day as virtually everyone under the age of 35 in the Bay Area says it. They prabobly picked up from some guy someone hung out in Oakland one time and it spread like wildfire.
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Originally Posted by ABQConvict
Bay area culture is becoming invasive. Pretty soon your friends are going to be telling 'epic' burrito stories and driving around town in their 'core' (car).
I have a friend from San Diego and she said 'Hella' during a conversation and then, in a moment of self-realization said, "I sound like I'm from San Francisco, eww!"
Your group of friends in Iowa prabobly say "hella" less than half as many times per day as virtually everyone under the age of 35 in the Bay Area says it. They prabobly picked it up from some guy someone hung out with in Oakland one time and it spread like wildfire.
How in the world can someone living in the Bay Area tell you're not from around there?
Maybe if you say you drive on "the 5"?
Seriously, though, I think in terms of just seeing someone casually or at a gas station or passing through (whether in California or the Midwest) it's almost impossible to know whether or not someone is from out of town or is living locally.
Seriously, though, I think in terms of just seeing someone casually or at a gas station or passing through (whether in California or the Midwest) it's almost impossible to know whether or not someone is from out of town or is living locally.
I moved here from the East for college, still here decades later. No, it's not "closed", but I'd agree with the previous poster who called it a rural thing. It's not that way in the larger cities.
People are just about the same everywhere. I grew up in Boston, lived briefly in Kansas City and recently moved back to the Boston area. There are sleazy people, nice people, arrogant people, cold people, warm people, etc etc everywhere.... How can you generalize an entire region of the country in one way?? Makes no sense. "All midwesterners are friendly and all northeasterners are rude and cold." Rubbish.
I agree. I'd say one on one, people are much the same everywhere. There may be a few cultural differences.
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