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I've grown up in California and I've had a few family members move to the Greenville, South Carolina area. My question is, is the culture as different as I've heard, from what I'm used to in California?
I've really only travelled through California, but have family there. The short answer to your short question is yes. The culture is very much different here.
You'll have to get more specific with the question to get more specific answers, I think.
I've grown up in California and I've had a few family members move to the Greenville, South Carolina area. My question is, is the culture as different as I've heard, from what I'm used to in California?
What have you heard?
I will say this though.. Don't come here with the attitude of everything is better in California. If I've seen it once, I've seen it a dozen times.. My own sister came to visit from CA a couple of years ago and as we were hanging out downtown, she had to "top" everything and tell me how much better it was there.
"Barley's Taproom only has 100 beers on tap? So & so in Walnut Creek has more than that!"
..and she's not even a beer drinker. Don't be that person.
I didn't find the DC metro or NYC, northern NJ to be any different from living in Greenville other than things like weather, even though you hear the same kind of 'culture shock' things about living in those places compared to here.
I would think the differences coming from a place like California would be good things, like less traffic, much lower cost of living, etc.
I didn't find the DC metro or NYC, northern NJ to be any different from living in Greenville other than things like weather, even though you hear the same kind of 'culture shock' things about living in those places compared to here.
I would think the differences coming from a place like California would be good things, like less traffic, much lower cost of living, etc.
It all depends on your personal taste and what you do for work and outside of work I suppose. I wouldnt necessarily say people would experience "culture shock" unless they were really sheltered, but I am surprised you would say you don't find something like NYC any different than Greenville. Having spent some extended time in NYC for work and also visiting plenty (and almost moving there last there) I find NYC to be a completely different living environment than Greenville in many ways. Furthermore, I just moved to Dallas for a new job opportunity this year and similarly find living here in Dallas to be very different than Greenville. There is nothing wrong with places being different and there are usually both pros and cons of course, but it's very interesting to see someone say they don't find NYC different than Greenville...
other than number of people, traffic, and the weather differences and cost of living, what is different about daily life in NYC or Dallas compared to Greenville? I worked in Houston for a week and it was no big deal to me.
Last edited by ClemVegas; 03-30-2016 at 10:51 AM..
I only knew one person who moved here from California and they did not like it here. They eventually moved back to California.
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