Why are people in Dallas so rude and pretentious? (Southlake: shop, moving)

[Lakewooder]

No, I'm talking about the old signs:

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4769/drivefriendly.png (broken link)

I guess you 'had to be there'.

[Peter B]

New Yorkers are the epitome of bad at geography. The majority of them (mine and my wife's family from Long Island particulary) are basically geographically illiterate and do not do well outside their own zip codes. They think their backyard is the center of the planet and display much ignorance when it comes to anything beyond their bridges and tunnels. Been that way for many years.

Originally Posted by rgb123

I just don't see any facts. I never said or made any claims that NO New Yorkers came to Dallas. I don't see the trend though, especially to point to them for the bad driving reputation.

I'm not angry or rude. I don't really have opinions of New Yorkers, except that they tend to think very highly of their own city and they are notoriously bad at American Geography. It's a stereotype, and one I've found to be rather true, its not a knock on Dallas.

I'm not comabtive. I think its the other way around actually. I'm just waiting for some factual basis to these claims.

I've already stated that my impressions of Dallas were of a traveller. I wanted to like Dallas (heck I got out of my office for a week). I thought there were some cool buildings and architecture but I didn't care for the feel of it much or the way it empties out at night....and of course the other things mentioned....which are my opinions and impressions, not facts.

If anything, I think some people here ARE representing Dallas as rather pretentious, condescending and rude, patronizing, etc. Ms. Can't stop laughing at how incredibly stupid I am!

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

No, I'm talking about the old signs:



I guess you 'had to be there'.

I'm sorry; I'm talking motto and you switched to a campaign / slogan of sort. Oh well, I guess one did have to be there.

[4eversearching]

I agree about the New Yorkers being so full of themselves and thinking they're the center of the universe. They think New York is some utopia and everywhere else in the world is so inferior. I used to date a guy from Long Island and we always had fights about this, when he'd make some comment about how other people aren't a good and other things are inferior to the all-mighty New York.

[Texsez]

U are a cynical gay man. In yer comment u displayed this and u know how. I am neither cyn or faig but I know where yer sashayin saw that T-Shirt. Queens werent hittn on ya that day?
I always getta thank u when I open tha door for a woman here. U'r hangin out in ....where'ver u hang it out.

[rgb123]

Originally Posted by Peter B

New Yorkers are the epitome of bad at geography. The majority of them (mine and my wife's family from Long Island particulary) are basically geographically illiterate and do not do well outside their own zip codes. They think their backyard is the center of the planet and display much ignorance when it comes to anything beyond their bridges and tunnels. Been that way for many years.

yeah...lol...that's what I was talking about! One of my best friends is from Long Island and she told me all about it. She moved to Texas (austin) for awhile and all her friends thought she was crazy. She went to college in Minnesota too and I think half of them thought she was in Canada somewhere....pretty much everything in the middle is just a flyover state...lol.

Of course, I don't share these opinions, I'm just familiar with them! She told me that in school, the focus was more on local geography and history, for whatever reason.

[TXLara]

Originally Posted by stan4

You can't go 70 on H1! You can barely go forty! LOL! I remember looking out my apartment window in Aiea at 5:30 in the morning and seeing the eastbound side of H1 already at a dead stop...

You can go 70 on H1...it's not always at a dead standstill. Like at midnight or 1:30pm. It just takes a lot of weaving!

Also- I totally agree that it's everywhere that's gotten worse with attitude. My family is very spread out, so I see it no matter where I go. Northeast, Midwest, Deep South. And I really gotta wonder- who does Frisco bag on? I mean, we all used to bag on Highland Park for being the snobs when I was a kid. Now everyone bags on Frisco. It's like when I lived in Arkansas and we bagged on KY for being hicks, because the rest of the country bagged on AR. Everybody's gotta bag on somebody else to make themselves feel better. It's just human nature, I guess.

[lwnj]

Originally Posted by wolfpacknc

Hold a door for a lady (or man) in any other city and you will get a thank you or at least a nod, hold a door for a Dallas lady and she will stick her nose in the air and walk on by. And thats just one example.

The said "Dallas lady" is probably a transplant.

[TXLara]

Originally Posted by lwnj

The said "Dallas lady" is probably a transplant.

She's no "lady"! I always say thank you. And I even...gasp...hold the door open for men! Shocker, I know! But I gots mad skillz cuz I apparently can wear heels, prance around with my nose in the air, AND hold the door open for other people while saying hi.

[4eversearching]

Originally Posted by TXLara

But I gots mad skillz cuz I apparently can wear heels, prance around with my nose in the air, AND hold the door open for other people while saying hi.

Wow, me too. It sounds like I'm going to fit right in in Dallas.