Posted on 06/06/2022 5:17:30 PM PDT by fwdude
A Californian is going viral after sharing the biggest culture shocks she faced after moving to Iowa.
The clip comes courtesy of Katie Bishop (@katphishhbishh), a podcaster and CRNA student now living in Iowa. Her video, about the most surprising differences between her old state and new one, now has over 800,000 views.
It’s the latest entry in a long line of posts about culture shocks TikTokers have faced after moving.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
“Wait till she “discovers” an Iowa winter.
LOL”
Especially if she has to pay her own heating bills this coming winter.
I am guilty-when I was in the USN, I came to detest New Yorkers. Many of them stuck out in a group of people who came from everywhere. I had two or three that I found completely annoying, and I tended to paint all New Yorkers that way.
I came, over time, to realize that yes, everyone is an individual and should be judged as such, and when I look back, I can recall one New Yorker I didn’t hate. He was the mildest mannered, genuinely nice and intelligent people I knew in the Navy. He was from upstate New York.
His name was...Howie.
The thing that is funny, is that the trio of guys from New York were so damned irritating in nearly every way that I completely would forget to associate Howie with that state.
To me, it was as if he were from another planet.
Well, I guess to many people Upstate New York IS another planet when compared to New York City.
My very first political memory was around the time I was 12 or 13 years old (1963 or 1964). We were living in Ithaca, NY. I remember Dad and his buddies all complaining how all the taxes they were paying in NY State were going to the bums in NYC! Some things never change. Well, actually they do change. They go from good to not so good to bad to horrendous. We are at the horrendous stage now.
Iowa has very cold winters especially north of Ames. Someone said something about Iowa not being one big farm. Well take a look at a terrain map and you’ll see except for a few specks, it pretty much is a large farm. That’s a good thing though.
Diversity is fun isn’t it? Now you have to deal with other people who don’t believe with you or have different cultures and values that you have. Suck it up!
My Dad’s family landed in Ellis Island from Germany in October 1927. They lived in the Bronx for a few years until Opa saved enough money to buy a lot in West Chester County. He then built his own house with his own hands and they moved into it in the early 30s. Even then they could not stand living in NYC after coming from the sophisticated old European city of Danzig.
Thanks for the link. I arrived from the UK 16 yrs old, did 2 years in American high school...quite the change. There’s so many differences - especially for two countries that are “effectively the same” (as I hear often). ;)
Yeah I like him.
Not like this twit.
I agree, I live in a rural small town in Calif and it just like the Iowa town that she describes.
I still think Arnold the pig is the star of that show.
Like cancer spreading to a new part of the body.
Besides, that assessment I wanted to post a copy of the picture that shows a map with New York City taking up 90% of the map, and California is just a little blip, but...
I searched through DDG and not a single hit. There must be some kind of copyright thing there.
“Two peoples separated by a common language” is how I’ve heard it described.
“Like” and “ya know”. I can’t stand either one.
Also the ‘F’ word is used way too much. Just loses it’s effectiveness.
Like, you know, like literallehhh…
They used to say if you drive an hour from the coast in California you hit Virginia. I guess you have to make that Indiana or Tennessee now that Northern Virginia Democrats have gobbled up the state.
And in Georgia everyone outside of Atlanta hates Atlanta and avoids it like the plague. Every state has that one city that they avoid. Usually it is the capital of the state where all the corruption and crime resides. Coincidentally (?), it’s usually the largest city in the state controlled by Democrats.
It’s sad, but so many people automatically think ATLANTA when they think of Georgia (which is actually a beautiful state). The same way they think CHICAGO when they think of Illinois.
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