Here's a question for you all...where was the friendliest or unfriendliest or darn right strange place you have ever lived in or at?

For a little while I lived in a hotel in Berkeley CA way back in the 70s. The characters there went from funny to scary. Had to share a bathroom with the entire hotel and one day I went in there in the morning only to find someone had left a turd in the shower....I still can't get that image out of my head:rolleyes::whistle:

The restaurant there did make the best avocado sandwiches I've ever had, though.:LOL:
 

Pepper said:
Oh no, KP, it was kind of a coincidence. I've been meaning to ask you for awhile, but didn't want to be nosy and then, conveniently, this thread opened. I don't know Berlin WI; I do know Berlin NH. Also lived NH, btw.

I've learned it's never a good thing to live only with white people. It's dangerous! They get ingrown, like a toenail.
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I lived in a small, ski resort town in NH for a while; the people there started off mildly friendly 'till they found out I was from Calif.; then it went sideways fast.
 
Ruby Rose said:
Thank you for your kind words. I should have been able to sense the atmosphere right off the bat and not waste my breath. I must relate the friendliest place we were posted to which is St John's, Newfoundland (the rock as we called it). The very day we arrived on the ferry, our car acted up and had to be taken to a nearby garage. We had offers right and left to accompany them to their respective homes to wait. They were all strangers to us but so welcoming, I will never forget that time. Mind you, we were referred to as 'mainlanders' for the entire three years we were there.
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Wasn't Newfoundland one of the places in Canada that so graciously & warmly put up the people on U.S. ground flights on 9/11? IIRC, I think it was.
 

Pinky said:
1986, we went on vacation to Maine with my sister and her 2 young boys. On the way, we stopped at a McDonald's. It seemed as though everyone was staring at us. I guess they had seen few Asians. Another night, an entire family did the same thing - stared and stared, with goofy grins on their faces. It was a very odd feeling, like being monkeys in a zoo.

I guess it wasn't unfriendliness .. just ignorance.
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I get the same rude stares; a Mexican American woman with a white man is still frowned on in parts of our nation, unfortunately. Do I care? Of course not.
@Pinky
 
hollydolly said:
explain please, to a Non-American , why that would have happened ?
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Well, IIRC, the first time it came up was some1 who had lived in that small NH town her whole life (in fact, she'd never even traveled once out of that county) asked me where I was from with the "strange accent" I had. (I pronounced 'R's too heavily it turns out.) When I replied "California", she got an even deeper frown on her face & said "Ugh, California!" Hurt my feelings because she so obviously was not joking, so I said, "Why, what's wrong with being from Calif.?", she said "Oh, all you Californians think you're better than everyone else!" (And this was long before all the rich techies & Silicon Valley thing was going.) And I had more than one conversation like that in NH.

Heck, just here recently I've seen comments here on SF about Californians that as near as I can tell are not said in jest.
 
officerripley said:
Nice of you to say, Pepper, thanks :love: but the people there in NH and Rhode Island (other place I lived with first huzz) sure didn't act like they were jealous, they acted totally disgusted as soon as they found out where I was from.
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That's because they were jealous. We all wanted to be California Girls.
What decade were you there? NE, I mean.
 
I've lived in CT all my life, but have visited all of New England, places in NY, NJ, FL and PA; Los Angeles CA and Sonoma, CA. Also several areas of Mexico.

Maybe I'm not savvy enough, but I have never felt I was treated rudely. Maybe I was just lucky. I will say, that Northeastern PA is the friendliest.

I have never heard of down grading Californians either. Not as far as I can recall, anyway.
 
On our way to California, stopped off in Wyoming. 1963. On a tour, my father couldn't drive yet. Ok. So this father & son team want to feel my head and see my horns. o_O Behind them, some fellow travelers were snickering.

Life today so much better in so many ways.

eta--tolja, white folks make me nervous, and I've got blue eyes & blond hair
 
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Pepper said:
On our way to California, stopped off in Wyoming. 1963. On a tour, my father couldn't drive yet. Ok. So this father & son team want to feel my head and see my horns. o_O Behind them, some fellow travelers were snickering.

Life today so much better in so many ways.

eta--tolja, white folks make me nervous, and I've got blue eyes & blond hair
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"Life today so much better in so many ways." I so totally agree with that!
 
hollydolly said:
I'll second that...Parisians are verrry rude...... it always makes me laugh when people say they'd love to visit Romantic Paris.. *ugh*
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From experience and I speak French BUT not a 'classy French' so I totally agree...verry rude!
 

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