Seattle and Portland have scary fucking drivers. In Portland people just stop on the freeway loops to take the off ramp. They just stop.
Seattle struck me as less specifically and uniquely bad but still bad. I would never want to drive there.
I was once told by a college-era acquaintance that my southern accent (from TN) was stronger after spending the summer at home, which struck me as funny because nobody else thought I had anything resembling a southern accent. When I moved to Michigan people assumed I was Canadian. The general consensus is I hated TN so much I actively resisted conforming even though I moved there at the tender age of eight and had plenty of time to assimilate. Ten years in MI has definitely affected how I speak, but a lot of the tics are workplace-acquired and hail from the Upper Peninsula rather than Metro Detroit.
Speaking of the U.P., when one is Up North one smiles and waves at passersby. One does not do so in the Metro area.
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Date: 2016-12-07 04:45 am (UTC)Seattle struck me as less specifically and uniquely bad but still bad. I would never want to drive there.
I was once told by a college-era acquaintance that my southern accent (from TN) was stronger after spending the summer at home, which struck me as funny because nobody else thought I had anything resembling a southern accent. When I moved to Michigan people assumed I was Canadian. The general consensus is I hated TN so much I actively resisted conforming even though I moved there at the tender age of eight and had plenty of time to assimilate. Ten years in MI has definitely affected how I speak, but a lot of the tics are workplace-acquired and hail from the Upper Peninsula rather than Metro Detroit.
Speaking of the U.P., when one is Up North one smiles and waves at passersby. One does not do so in the Metro area.