"graham" wrote in message news
On 2017-01-08 5:34 AM, wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 21:42:40 -0700, graham > wrote:
>
>> On 2017-01-07 5:21 PM, Janet wrote:
>>> In article >, says...
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 11:40:08 -0800, sf > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 08 Jan 2017 06:26:04 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 11:22:13 -0800, sf > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 14:44:16 +1100, Bruce >
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 06 Jan 2017 18:21:52 -0800, sf > wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:38:40 +1100, Bruce >
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Are you saying that the content of stranger chit chat is
>>>>>>>>>> geographically determined?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Often. Sometimes it's culturally based, but it's definitely more
>>>>>>>>> common outside large urban areas. I was brought up in the country
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> have no problem striking up a conversation with the person behind
>>>>>>>>> me
>>>>>>>>> in line. I'm always surprised (but not offended) when someone
>>>>>>>>> strikes
>>>>>>>>> up a conversation with me, because it's behavior that's out of the
>>>>>>>>> social norm for this particular area.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I guess big city people are more into stranger danger.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We live closer together and feel no need to reach out to strangers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think it's more a westerner thing rather than anything to do with
>>>>>> living closer together.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think you'll find other North Americans who disagree with that
>>>>> up-thread. Small town and rural Americans can be quite friendly with
>>>>> strangers.
>>>>
>>>> I would have thought so too. What I meant is westerners tend to not
>>>> converse to strangers in bigger towns and cities.
>>>
>>> That's too sweeping a generalisation. Northerners in Britain tend to be
>>> much friendlier and chattier to strangers than southerners.. in both
>>> cities and rural areas.
>>>
>>> Janet.
>>>
>> Myth!
>
> I agree with you - while in Suffolk we found the natives friendly and
> in Devon, super friendly.
>
In my experience, northerners are no different to southerners.

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For a while we were moving around with D's work. I had thought all northern
cities would be the most friendly. The two places that defied that were
.....
Oxford (very friendly) and Manchester (hostile) For those that don't know,
Oxford is south and meant to be very 'posh') Manchester is in Lancashire.
The least said about that the better



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