I can’t generalize, but here’s some interesting stories. First of all, I have lived all my life well out of NY, so I would consider myself quite an “out of towner”. And even so, I went to a high school that was even more “out of town” than what I was used to, and I saw some things that surprised me. One example was actually something similar to what someone brought up already, but it happened on a more extreme level: A woman sitting by a red light actually dozed off and the light turned green and then red again before she woke up, and the cars behind her just waited patiently till she woke up! Another example was when I was in a supermarket there, and the people walking by kept saying to me “good afternoon!” And they said it to everyone! I actually found it really nice. Everyone greeted everyone else.
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