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Originally Posted by Bob Gray
Here in Indiana we don't have any beaches or mountains but we have plenty of wilderness and rolling hills especially in the southern part of the state, the northern part is relatively flat and makes up the majority of our farming areas.
I'd say we have just as much recreation as anywhere else, save instead of going to the beach, we go camping instead
We are a pretty close-knit bunch as well, everyone knows everyone else in small communities and towns. That's not to say that we our unfriendly to outsiders, in fact, I'd say that we have adopted a bit of that southern hospitality mentality.
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Thanks for that. One of the things that I imagined, and seems to be confirmed by this thread, is that there is a significant difference between different parts of the USA.
This is quite different to Australia. I think here, people tend to be reasonably similar no matter which city/state you are in. Country folk may be a little more friendly etc but generally people are very similar.
Also, the vast majority of our population live within an hour or two of the ocean. So while there are differences in recereation between geographic regions, I think these are largely due to climate. And even some of the more southerly parts of our country (eg Melbourne, Adelaide) can get temperatures into the 30's in the summertime (celcius, that is). Probably the difference is how cold they get in the winter!
So the beach can be a pretty big part of most Australian's summer, should they choose it.
It reminds me that there was a recent article in one of our papers saying that New Yorkers (at least in NYC) were a pretty unfriendly and hurried lot. But I am hearing that people can be quite the opposite in other parts of the country. I don't know if that article was a fair representation of NYC - these things are often ill-informed.