re: #770 Mattand

I like your posts, so I’ll keep it polite, as it were: No. We’re no more rude than any other state.

If there’s an origin for our supposed rudeness, much of it comes from the rest of our countrymen thinking that everyone here acts like they’re on The Sopranos and The Jersey Shore.

Many people from Southeast PA have told me in no uncertain terms they think NJ is a shit hole, for reasons only they understand.

Seriously, don’t tread this path today. By this time tomorrow, NJ is going to be in a world of hurt, both human-wise and financially.

I think there is a basic logic to types of communication. People in cold weather climates aren’t going to stand round in the snow gabbing niceties. We say or ask what we need get a concise answer and get in out of the cold. Same with busy metropolitan areas. We just don’t have time—we have to sit in traffic, or get to train station or us stop …

Warm weather people and rural people don’t have these things to deal with and tend to be “more polite”.

Personally, I think 10 minute messages on my voice mail to ask “will you watch my kid next thursday while hubby and I go to a event is really rude. Don’t take up my time with the why’s and wherefores I can figure it out. I’m a cold weather, metropolitan person.