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You don't need to tell me that, I do know that Delaware is the second smallest state and am well aware of the hard time it gets. I just didn't think people thought of it as urban.
Hi Bruce - Perhaps that's because you are more aware that it's actually not largely urban based on either travel or reading?
All many people see is the short stretch of 95 that passes through Wilmington and/or they are aware of the presence of DuPont manufacturing. Accordingly, as someone who grew up there, a very common response I've gotten is "your state seems pretty urban." As for my statement that it is the second smallest state, it was to correct your assertion that it is the smallest "(come on, it's the smallest state and most Brits don't know them all)." I thought the premise of the thread was pretty straight-forward. I had no idea that my own experience of people assuming my home state was largely urban would perplex you so much.
I hope this long explantion helps clarify things a bit. If not, please DM me so we can let others continue the fun of this thread.
Minnesota isn't some flat, boring midwest wasteland.
- We dooooon't all talk with the accent that you would hear on the movie Fargo
- It's not winter year long, or even 6 months. And it does get very hot here in the summer.
- We're not just all Lutheran Swedes with bake sales and church gatherings
- We don't eat Lutefisk. I have never seen it. I have rarely even heard of people eating it.
I wish people realized that there is more to Florida than Disney, the beaches, and retirees. I wish people got off of the interstate and took some of Florida's backroads to see that the entire state isn't a subdivision and that Florida is still a major agricultural state. And the goofy assumption that we no longer speak English down here is getting pretty old.
that JC and the rest of NJ isn't ny AT ALL. We dont want to be and the "transplants" need to understand that too. Our lives in JC don't revolve around ny.
Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia all have deserts and arid regions in their interiors. A lot of people don't seem to be aware of this. Oregon should be the most obvious one (after all, it shares 150 miles of border with Nevada), but even BC has areas of "shrub-steppe" and arid scrublands. Visit the southern Okanogan Valley, or the Fraser Canyon area.
The record temperature in the Fraser River basin is 111.9F, which is quite high by Canadian standards, and is quite a bit toastier than it gets in Vancouver.
I was not aware of the deserts in the Pacific NW until my cousin moved to eastern Washington State and I saw pictures of where she lived (we are from NJ). I was shocked to see the desert--I always thought of Washington as endless forest, where, of course, all those serial killers hide the bodies of their victims.
I wish people realized that there is more to Florida than Disney, the beaches, and retirees. I wish people got off of the interstate and took some of Florida's backroads to see that the entire state isn't a subdivision and that Florida is still a major agricultural state. And the goofy assumption that we no longer speak English down here is getting pretty old.
Something I learned when I used to visit in-laws in Florida was how much cattle is raised there! When we drove inland from the Charlotte County area, there were cows everywhere.
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I'm originally from the Alleghenies in southern upstate New York. What I wish people knew about New York is that it's not all city, it is quite rural, and there are hicks everywhere. XD
My family is made up of quite a few real honest to goodness hillbillies, especially my immediate family. Yes, they exist up north to! They have the piles of rusty stuff and a dangerously bad house to prove it, among other things.
That aside, I'm tired of people instantly assuming NYC when they hear New York. I'm a country boy, a mountain man, and Appalachian for life. But I AM from New York. And I am tired of explaining it to everybody who asks me where I'm from!
New York = very rural despite incredibly high population. Most of those people live downstate anyway. :P
We are not up to our eyeballs in snow 12 months a year in metro Denver. In fact, it has never snowed in July or August (though the earliest date of the first snow is Sept. 3). Our winter is actually milder than that of a lot of places at the same latitude (40degrees North).
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