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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 2723844" data-attributes="member: 1057">Experienced the reverse some years ago:  left West Texas to go to college in Maine.  It can be hard to adjust to a new setting no matter where you're from, and where you're going.  Same thing happened when I lived in Scotland for a year.  It's been my experience that folks are friendly but guarded just about everywhere, until you get to know them, and then they (the ones you know) tend to be more welcoming.  I think that's typical, whether New England, New York (seems like kinda its own entity), the South, the West, the Midwest, wherever.It's been my experience that, in the South, it helps to be neighborly.  It's o.k. to give a cordial smile to someone on the street, make eye contact, wave to a neighbor, say hello to the clerk at the store and chat a bit even if you don't know them ("Hi, how are you today?"  "Fine, yourself?"  "Good.  It's been nice to have the cooler weather lately."  "Indeed it has, and thanks for stopping in."), stop by a friend's house just to stay hello and enjoy a glass of iced tea (I prefer mine unsweetened and it's perfectly acceptable to request something other than the diabetes-inducer that is "sweet tea"), tip your hat to someone, hold open a door, give directions to someone who asks, etc.  You're not becoming best friends with everyone, it's just being neighborly.Rel's observation about space is right on.  When I drove to college, I wanted to put Texas behind me the first day, as that was the single longest leg of the journey I was to make, and after that the drives wouldn't seem quite so strenuous.  So I drove across the whole state that first day:  14 hours.  By the time I got to Maine, I got a kick out of people answering my questions as to driving times with quips such as, "It's a long way to Portland from here.  Two-and-a-half hours."He should have no trouble eating.  He might have to cook more for himself, and that's not a bad thing, because many restaurants still use animal fat for cooking, even if it's for vegetables.  But there's plenty of vegetables and non-meats enjoyed in the south:  greens, beans, squash, okra, corn, peas, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, mushrooms, peaches, apricots, cherries, apples, oranges, lemons, limes, cornbread, and more.  I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.Warrior Poet</blockquote>

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