NM the most foreign state

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by tecpatl

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Originally Posted by nmnita
I can certainly beleive that. Most of Calif is wall to wall houses and shopping malls. Oh and don't forget the freeways....
NIta

I think you mean a small portion of California is wall to wall houses and shopping malls. To me, the most beautiful landscape in the country (my apologies to NM) is in California.

Ferndale CA (probably my favorite place):

Are the gumdrop shaped shrubs/trees still there? Can't remember what street, but they were multi-cool and semi-famous. It's been 20 years since I visited. A great town, especially when Dungeness are in season. Crab feast...mmmm

Ferndale is beautiful but the majority of areas (and I spent 40 plus years living all over the state from San Diego to Eureka) is wall to wall houses and freeways. At least the area people live and work in. As for the crab, OMG, I was thinking about this last night.

When our one daughter was about 10 or so and we liveed in Eureka there was a little crab place along the water. When the crab was fresh, they flew the flag. she and I would stop, get a crab or two and have a wonderful meal, complete with sour dough bread. The other 2 kids didn't eat crab in those days.

Nita

[RamblinRoseRanch]

I can totally agree with those of you experiencing culture shock coming to the TN area. Southerners are catagorically drippin' with suthern sweetness, but in reality we're not. As as whole, southern people are just as nice as can be, as long as you look like/act like/ARE one of *us*. If you aren't, watch out- we'll be shaking your hand with one of ours and stabbin' your back with the other.

Sad, but true.

I'm your atypical southern woman, I guess. I don't doll myself up, worry about my hair, my nails, my make up- don't play catty games and usually prefer the company of men to women because most women here are engulfed in mememememememe and have no concern for the rest of the world, unless it directly affects them. My deceased boss (and my husband too, lol) have commented that it's like i'm almost not a 'woman'.
If what i've seen out of women here in the south is indicitive of the gender, then that's a compliment!

[Towanda]

Not sure how some of these posts relate to the New Mexico forum....

[rybert]

Oh no... this forum is acting like a real conversation!

[RamblinRoseRanch]

Um... okay, back on track.
Remember all that stuff I said about the South? I didn't feel it in NM. I actually even *gasp* came back here and tried to talk to a hispanic lady at a Tortilliera (sp) and she got all wide eyed and frightened looking. Then I remembered, I wasn't in NM any longer and that sort of stuff doesn't really happen here.....