What STuPiD stuff do people believe about YOUR state/area?

I almost forgot my favorite one of all! "are you all inbred?" YES! My cousin is a GREAT kisser...we can't wait to get married!

ORIGINAL: Benedict

jensw - I just spent a week in Manhattan.  Me and the people I was with kept asking each other where all the infamous rude people were.  I have never spent time in a friendlier, more wonderful city.  I mean that.

 
I am not going to say all NYers are rude.  I am from NJ originally, just south of NYC.  However, it takes a certain type of person to be able to LIVE in NY.  And also a special person to be able to drive there.  For example... yesterday my dad picked us up at the port and we were driving to China town for peking duck.  En route there, a big bus was stopped in the intersection because it went on a yellow light and then didn't make it through because too many cars were in front of it at the next light.  Well, we were in the lanes being blocked by the bus.  My dad literally moved over 4 lanes (and the bus was right in front of us) and went around the bus.  In most other places people would stay where they were and just bitch to themselves that the bus was in the way... not in NY .

I am from NJ originally... people always ask "What exit?" as in what exit of the turnpike to you live at.  However, I lived 40 minutes from the turnpike.  Also, people land at the airport and come in from NY and those are not the prettiest areas of the state so they get a bad impression.  I never knew so until I moved to MD and people called NJ the armpit of America.

Glenda, it is a land of extremes.  It can be brutal in July and August and our summers are pretty humid (see reference to more than 10,000 lakes).  I guess the thing about snow is, it does tend to stick around.....if it snowed at Thanksgiving, there's a good chance we'd still have that snow on the ground at the end of March.  But white Christmases have been very rare in the last decade and the craziest amount of snow we've ever gotten (Halloween Blizzard, 1991 - the same weather system recorded in the book about the loss of the Andrea Gail sword fishing ship, The Perfect Storm, also dumped about 29 inches in the Twin Cities and more in Duluth) pales in comparison to the average winters I recall living an hour below Buffalo, NY on Lake Erie.  But Minnesota in September and often October is about as perfect as it gets, IMHO. 
 
So in late summer, it can be so hot and humid you'd think you were in a jungle. And January and Feb can have spells of negative teens and arctic dry air!

[sm=tex.gif]Okay, havent heard from any New Yorkers.  Well here goes.  Yes we are rude.  Thats because there is no space for everyone and the traffic is unbelieveable.  It might be too that others say we "talk funny, have an accent".  FYI we do not have accents, people from other countries do.  Yes we do ride the world famous Staten Island Ferry to Manhattan.  It is NOT an ocean liner or cruise ship.  Its a steam boat that is roach infested and smells like pee.  The subway, well everything that you hear about it is true.  Its not beautiful, its Very dangerous and it smells like pee too.  Oh, yea its a haven for homeless people.  So are our parks, streets and schoolyards. New York is dirty, noisy and overcrowded.  Yea, what you see on TV is true.  All of it.  I guess its the price you pay for living in the most FAMOUS city on the planet.  We have the best food and restaurants on the planet.  No where on gods green earth can you get better food.  Nowhere!   We have animals and trees.  Pets and neighbors.  Cars and trucks.  Tall and small buildings.  Parks and lakes.  Beaches and oceans.  Giant and quaint neighborhoods. Concerts and theaters.  Sports and sports areanas. WE HAVE IT ALL.!  Whatever you have in your city or state we also have.  And guess what New York is OPEN 24 hours 7 days a week.   NO BLUE LAW!  You can do ANYTHING in the middle of the night. Even buy liquor or beer. Nothing ever closes. Maybe thats why we are the financial capital of the world.  And the most FAMOUS. And of course we have the New York Post.  That famous paper that is one step above the Star or the Enquirer. Well, NY is a GREAT place to live and work. We do have VERY high gas prices.  The price we pay for having everything.
[color="#3300cc"]Please take a moment of silence for the World Trade Center victims after you read this.  Only a real NY'er would understand.. And yes, I did see them come down.  I saw it and smelled it.  Something II will [color="#ff0033"]"[/color] NEVER FORGET".  Please keep NY in your hearts and prayers. 
Thanks everyone, sincerely Michele from Staten Island New York
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Michele... I saw the big orange Staten Island Ferries yesterday .  Honestly, I'd live in Staten Island way before living in NYC.  But... you didn't say any stereotypes of Staten Island.  The one I know is that it is just a big dump ... literally . 
 
Actually, many people from Staten Island move to near where my parents live, about 40 min. south of NYC (30 min. from SI).

Probably more sausages than shrimps, not many of us do shrimps on the BBQ.

[sm=tex.gif]Smilee 1079,   
AHHH Yes the dump.  You could see it from space thru the Hubble telescope.  Impressive huh?  I wonder if Mars could smell it too.  They closed the dump last year.  [sm=wink2.gif]Anyway typical Staten Island people are Brooklynites.  They came here and tried to Brooklynize our little boro.  And did they ever.  Staten Island was farms and really nice people.  People had property and animals, horses and rabbits. All streets were two way.  No traffic no noise.  It was truly beautiful.  Now its ICKY.  The road rage is outrageous, really.  We have so many cars and buses on the road its like Manhattan.  I call it condo island.  Where the were beautiful old victorians now stand condo complexes.  You know well manicured consentration camps.[sm=devil.gif]I am looking for a place in Pennsylvania, with property and a big beautiful house.  I want to see rabbits and deer.  NOT PEOPLE!  As soon as my son graduates high school (next year) I am outta here.  I love New York, I have great memories here. But its time to move on to a quiet place where I can have my puppy run safe, and I can actually leave my car door open and not set the alarm.  Oh yea,true story, a while back I had my miniature schnauzer sitting on my lap in my car while I was waiting for my dad.  Window open shes peeking out.  A man walks up and says OMG what a beautiful dog.  What kind of dog is she?  I reply, a miniature schnauzer.  He says, "oh really a schnauzer, what does a schnauzer look like".  TRUE STORY!
Thank, Michele[sm=tex.gif]

Billy, you asked if I am near Seattle.  We are about a three hour drive (depending on Seattle's infamous afternoon traffic [8D]) away.

As for rock slides, yep, they are a regular occurrance, especially on highway  (the ONLY main road that runs up the coast. Each winter, a portion of the coast will get cut off for a few days when the winter rains set in and the roads get covered with mud and rocks or else it floods and covers a portion of the road! A few years back, Tillamook had food and supplies dropped in via helicopter when floods cut it off in all directions!

ORIGINAL: Michele12
...Anyway typical Staten Island people are Brooklynites.  They came here and tried to Brooklynize our little boro...

 
 
Don't you just hate that?  We see it out here, too.  People moving "to the country", then trying then turning the farming community they moved to into what they moved from.  UGH!
 
 

...Now its ICKY.  The road rage is outrageous, really.  We have so many cars and buses on the road its like Manhattan....

 
And they're talking about putting a NASCAR track on Staten Island.  Talk about traffic jams!

Stupid things people believe about Florida:

• Florida is filled with old people.. oh wait, yes it is.

• Florida gets like a million hurricanes every year.. well maybe not literally but it sure feels like we do!

• Florida isn't part of the south really, because it is filled with people from NY.. oh, that's true too!

• All Floridians have tans.. for the most part all of us have some sort of tan from just driving around.

• In Florida, Alligators are everywhere.. they are! not everywhere like cockroaches, but we have so many canals and waterways that it is not uncommon to see them walking around a neighborhood in broad daylight.

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ORIGINAL: micksmom

ORIGINAL: Michele12
...Anyway typical Staten Island people are Brooklynites.  They came here and tried to Brooklynize our little boro...

 
 
Don't you just hate that?  We see it out here, too.  People moving "to the country", then trying then turning the farming community they moved to into what they moved from.  UGH!
 

 
Ugh! That's going on here, too.  Beautiful little college/ag town being converted to just another maze of big box stores, over-priced & over-sized tract homes, and ridiculous traffic jams because people wanted to move "somewhere nice" and then turned it into what they moved from.  [:@][:@]

ORIGINAL: smilee1079
I am from NJ originally... people always ask "What exit?" as in what exit of the turnpike to you live at.  However, I lived 40 minutes from the turnpike....

 
Yeah, like I said earlier, people have no clue that there's more to NJ than chemical plants and the shore.  Noty many people are aware that NJ's state animal is the horse, either.   

ORIGINAL: Michele12

[sm=tex.gif]Okay, havent heard from any New Yorkers.  Well here goes.  Yes we are rude.  Thats because there is no space for everyone and the traffic is unbelieveable.  It might be too that others say we "talk funny, have an accent".  FYI we do not have accents, people from other countries do.  Yes we do ride the world famous Staten Island Ferry to Manhattan.  It is NOT an ocean liner or cruise ship.  Its a steam boat that is roach infested and smells like pee.  The subway, well everything that you hear about it is true.  Its not beautiful, its Very dangerous and it smells like pee too.  Oh, yea its a haven for homeless people.  So are our parks, streets and schoolyards. New York is dirty, noisy and overcrowded.  Yea, what you see on TV is true.  All of it.  I guess its the price you pay for living in the most FAMOUS city on the planet.  We have the best food and restaurants on the planet.  No where on gods green earth can you get better food.  Nowhere!   We have animals and trees.  Pets and neighbors.  Cars and trucks.  Tall and small buildings.  Parks and lakes.  Beaches and oceans.  Giant and quaint neighborhoods. Concerts and theaters.  Sports and sports areanas. WE HAVE IT ALL.!  Whatever you have in your city or state we also have.  And guess what New York is OPEN 24 hours 7 days a week.   NO BLUE LAW!  You can do ANYTHING in the middle of the night. Even buy liquor or beer. Nothing ever closes. Maybe thats why we are the financial capital of the world.  And the most FAMOUS. And of course we have the New York Post.  That famous paper that is one step above the Star or the Enquirer. Well, NY is a GREAT place to live and work. We do have VERY high gas prices.  The price we pay for having everything.
[color=#3300cc]Please take a moment of silence for the World Trade Center victims after you read this.  Only a real NY'er would understand.. And yes, I did see them come down.  I saw it and smelled it.  Something II will [color=#ff0033]"[/color] NEVER FORGET".  Please keep NY in your hearts and prayers. 
Thanks everyone, sincerely Michele from Staten Island New York[/color]

 
You're just as bad as the rest of the country!  LOL  Forgetting there's more to NY than the city and SI.  I'm a native New Yorker, too- from upstate, near Woodstock.  []

I know I'm late, I have been pretty sick (none of you doodyheads missed me one bit).  In Utah we are *All* Mormon, no one drinks, smokes, does drugs, we're all missionaries, we are all in plural marriages, we all gobble up that green jello, and we all say "Oh, my heck!"      Ugh!
I guess me and a couple thousand close friends are breaking some rules....   cause we're Not Mormon, we do indulge in alcohol, (that's when I crave a smoke), No, definately not a missionary (I will refrain from making a comment about missionary positions at this point in time).  I don't do drugs (but I have been dangerously close to a lit pipe lately).  I do NOT eat green or anyother color jello and if I ever get into plural marriage it will be me getting multiple husbands, not me sharing one man with a dozen other broads.  You want polygamy then go to Colorado city or Hilldale city and it is wall to wall 'polygs'.
There is a huge amount of meth use, lots and lots of bikers, gays, and witches.  Don't ask me how I know, just suffice it to say I got friends in low places....lol         I am a native Californian trying to survive in the Beehive state.   Jules