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Why would you want to move to a place and slowly turn it into the place you ran away from?
This has been the story of mankind and the USA for as long as history exists.....
The USA was made in the image of England.
The South and much of the Southwest and California (and many other places) had zero culture....outside of a few Native American tribes....so it would seem fairly obvious that educated people who moved there would want things to be similar to how they were in the places where they were raised.
As an example we wouldn't want someone from PA who moved to Alabama to pick cotton or own a plantation or to tap trees for turpentine. Those were the main "cultural" norms established there.
People like to think otherwise, but US Culture is greatly monolithic. There is a good reason why Starbucks, Whole Foods, Taco Bell and Trader Joes...as well as other such institutions...tend to succeed anywhere they open.
I've been (and lived) in many states and although there are some differences, they are not stark...by any means. Modern people are modern people.
I don't know why some take so much interest in where others decide to live.
I dont either.
Then again, why do people who move seem to insist upon trying make people in the new place behave like where they left?
I moved to a new country. I am learning the language and mind my own business. Many of my fellow expats not so much. They refuse to learn the language and constantly complain. Where I come from we do........... I want to scream "Well go back there then."
This has been the story of mankind and the USA for as long as history exists.....
The USA was made in the image of England.
The South and much of the Southwest and California (and many other places) had zero culture....outside of a few Native American tribes....so it would seem fairly obvious that educated people who moved there would want things to be similar to how they were in the places where they were raised.
As an example we wouldn't want someone from PA who moved to Alabama to pick cotton or own a plantation or to tap trees for turpentine. Those were the main "cultural" norms established there.
People like to think otherwise, but US Culture is greatly monolithic. There is a good reason why Starbucks, Whole Foods, Taco Bell and Trader Joes...as well as other such institutions...tend to succeed anywhere they open.
I've been (and lived) in many states and although there are some differences, they are not stark...by any means. Modern people are modern people.
No, in California and I think at least part of the Southwest, there was some Spanish culture there already as well as Native American. I grew up learning about all the missions, etc.
Living in L.A it’s hasnt been reflected in the traffic or housing prices yet .
Many have been leaving California , the state has become unaffordable for many middle class people . The poor and middle class leaving are being replaced by higher income people .
A lot of those higher income people are foreigners from other countries.
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