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Buddy of mine and I were chatting on Discord and we ended up having a conversation about this topic.

Namely imagine you just put two people in a room. One from New Jersey and one from LA and observe

Wild how different cultures can be even inside a country.

What do y’all think? Is it due to the size of the US (geographically)?

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Living in the Washington, DC area, it was always frustrating how outsiders would treat us like our city was exactly the same in makeup, attitude, and general culture as New York City, and would then judge our stuff based on that. First, no, New York City is not like DC. Second, no, the main difference between New York City and DC isn't that DC is a bunch of government drones. There are other jobs. It's a whole ass city? It has local economies, artists, food places, software firms, everything you'd expect. Third, New York City pizza isn't good. Stop acting like because a pizza deviates from that standard, it means the pizza is bad. AND I KNOW WHAT I SAID, FITE ME. Finally, we don't have a subway. We have a metro rail. And it's well laid out and easy to navigate, and when you reach your station stop it's easy to get a bus for the final leg of your journey. It's a superior metro scheme because the trains can operate at 60 mph, whereas the top speed for the subway where the trains must act both in place of the trains and the buses is 40mph.

Now to wait for the angry hate comments to come in...

[–] Mixairian@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

reading through the comment and nodding along peacefully... Then we get to the pizza comment...

[–] malcriada_lala@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

DC is gorgeous and so walkable/bike-friendly. Amazing food, people are nice, architecture is great. How could anyone dismiss DC?

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not to mention that I don’t feel like I’m going to get hepatitis by sitting on the DC metro seats. The new cars are very nice honestly. New York’s subway is a disgrace and absolutely disgusting.

Oh and the pizza comment is on point. My all time favorite is in 1) Virginia (I can still taste it) and 2) Colorado (place is sadly closed). Neither were your typical this is a pizza pizzas. One is owned by a Greek family and the other was the finest brick oven pizza ever.

[–] influence1123@psychedelia.ink 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whats the spot in Virginia called?

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] influence1123@psychedelia.ink 2 points 2 years ago

Oh nice ill definitely have to try it next time Im down there. Thanks!

[–] heartfelthumburger@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

I was in DC for a week back in 2017. Stayed in a suburban kind of area a bit outside the city center. It was super easy to get to from point A to B via the metro. Will visit again one day.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

You sold it to me, seems a very nice city, might visit one day

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You sound like you’re from Chicago. “DC is a real city guys! It’s just as real a city as any other city!”

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

"Come for the national mall. Stay because you got a job and you never actually made it out to the national mall. You were too busy. Its fine. You'll make it next year for the cherry blossum festival, or the kite festival, something, definitely"

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

DC got that jumbo slice