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  • Fake friendliness exists everywhere in the US. It's just our social lubricant. The problem is that Southern fake friendliness is sort of oppressive, they can be kind of pushy. As in you're the rude one if you're not interested in their hospitality or friendliness. As a New Jerseyan, I'd much rather be able to say a polite "no thanks" and have that be respected, which is what you get in the Northeast and in SoCal.

    I prefer to be more direct. Not necessarily cold, just forthright. In the South there are all these layers of manners and expectations that can be hard for a Northerner to navigate. I think they often genuinely mean to be nice, but they don't realize how pushy they are.

    BTW I don't have any real experience with Midwesterners but from what I understand, they can be similar to Southerners in this regard.

    I prefer the Northeastern way to the Southern way, and I think I'd way prefer the German way to the Southern way.

  • Nope! I've never read/seen Harry Potter (I, too, live under a rock). Beatrix Potter is the English author from the late 1800s who wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, among others. When I was a kid I had a set of her books, and her illustrations (which she herself painted in watercolors) had the whimsical quality that your cross-stitch has. 🦊🧡

  • Interesting. I still wonder why, because this was a trend in the '90s that died out with camera phones and social media. Maybe it's a retro throwback trend that got popular with younger folks? Still, I thought they stopped manufacturing Polaroid paper, and can you still get film developed at like the grocery store or a pharmacy?