I noticed the prudishness, but “rudeness” to me parses as people actually telling you what’s on their mind, rather than the passive-aggressive fake niceness that seems to dominate in the Bay Area. I’ll personally take the rudeness :).
(This is a pretty significant adjustment for the other direction as well; my best friends on the West Coast have almost all been East Coast transplants.)
after the prudishness part but I could definitely be misentangling that. And, well, you are someone who is one of my best friends on the West Coast. (Well, was. RIP Delmarva.)
I noticed the prudishness, but “rudeness” to me parses as people actually telling you what’s on their mind, rather than the passive-aggressive fake niceness that seems to dominate in the Bay Area. I’ll personally take the rudeness :).
… huh, is that the thing that makes it mysteriously easier for me to talk to people from the East Coast?
Yes.
Seems plausible. I put
after the prudishness part but I could definitely be misentangling that. And, well, you are someone who is one of my best friends on the West Coast. (Well, was. RIP Delmarva.)
:-(