“Then don’t expect people in a MO community to stop saying good shabbos to people on the street. Its disrespectful to come to a community and expect them to adhere to your preference”
Extremely well said! Someone was visiting in my shul and I sit in a downstairs ezras nashim behind and separated from the men’s section, where we can pull aside the mechitzah curtains during the Rov’s drasha(they overlay a wooden mechitzah, that has an intricate design that by itself prevents men from easily seeing women, the curtains are an additional measure). I pulled aside the curtains as the Rov began to speak (I hear better that way, don’t ask me why), and she immediately pulled them back closed and hissed, “We don’t do things like that.” I said nothing at the time, but after the davening, I said good shabbos to her and then said, “I understand that you don’t do things like that in your neighborhood, but you are in (my neighborhood)… now, and we do things a little differently here, with the Rov’s haskamah. ” To her credit, she apologized for her presumptuousness.