That's certainly not my experience, and I've lived in Ohio for 60 years. Perhaps you'll share with us the basis for this alleged assessment of northern "hospitality". I mean, you have some experiences that support this right? You wouldn't just have an unsupported bias against people from areas north of you, right? I went to school for four years in what I suppose would be "mid-south" (southern KY) and have spent a fair amount of time in NC, SC, and AL. The pace of life in general tends to be different from what I've seen, but I cannot say I saw more or less hospitality there than here....though it may be been presented differently.
actually I do have first hand experience
in 1976 my family and I took a vacation traveling up the east coast in our RV stopping in at all major cities along the way, we went as far as Maine/Canada Border, we thought it would be a great experience seeing places such as the Statue of Liberty, Lincoln memorial, Washington monument, the U.S. Mint, Liberty Bell etc,etc, seeing these things were great experience, although meeting the people of these area's were very arrogant, we seen More middle fingers while trying to maneuver our RV in the heavily traffic area then Bird Island has,
Our worst experience was while walking up a street in Boston to try and find a Place to get a bit to eat, we noticed some loud cussing up ahead 100 ft, was this half size man 5 ft. tall or so had broken a Bottle and robbed this larger man in broad daylight, right there on the street he demand for his money and watch, We all realized then we were in the wrong place, so we slowly left back in the direction we came, We then went back to our RV to leave this city and we sat awaiting to be let out so long that our RV ran hot, while siting there for more than 1 hour Not even the 1st person offer to lend a hand and again we were shouted at many times while sitting there trying to let the RV cool down, we did have one person rudely suggest for us to get a wrecker and have it moved out of the way,
but it finally cooled down and we got out into the roadway, the person who let us out was another tourist from Fl. certainly not a local resident, .............
for each night we parked and stay at the KOA Camp grounds we could tell the change in the attitudes of folks as we got above Virginia the resident host not at all act with any hospitality, just take the money and send us on our way kind of attitude, on the way back down heading toward home we thought we would stop back in some places and pick up some souvenirs, and it seem like at the entrance of every shop their stood someone trying to sale you something you didn't need, in fact at one shop on my way out the door stood this lady with flowers in her hand, she hand me one and I thought how nice she was and thanked her, but as i walked away she chase me down and snatch the flower back away and said something about I must pay for that.:confused2: so much for that act of kindness
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so Yes LMTC with the 18 day travel up North I could fill this topic Full of first hand experiences my family and I had while visiting the Northern states of this great Country, although I think some Folks here might not understand and take offense to what other things I might have to share, so leave me as it is! or you proof to me otherwise
by me posting what I did was kinda in fun, But of course we have some that does like to make more out of it than it was meant to be
