All the time here in Florida you hear transplants say “well that’s not how we do it back home”. or “How come this or that is so much better in N.Y.” or from whatever place they came from?
I understand that N.Y. is fast paced. You have to get it going to make enough to live there. But when you go somewhere else you should slow it down a bit. And unfortunately there isn’t a
stage deli on every corner in Florida.
All the transplants here in Florida have made this little N.Y. and it has lost its southern flavor.
You watch as all the Californians come rushing in and do the same. They do so to get away from the crowds and high cost of living due to taxes and insurance and high rents.
Oh yes, I remember my Mom complaining about the Californians moving in back in the 90s. Even then it was a problem. Of course, in Roswell where my Dad still lives it’s not Californians moving in....
susie
Strange that you should mention delis. I’m from southern California originally and there was an Italian-style deli in the town we lived in, San Clemente. When we moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1969 we discovered kosher delis in that city. When I joined the U.S.Navy in 1980 I was sent to school at the Presidio of Monterrey, California, and there made the unhappy discovery - no kosher delis anywhere and only one Italian deli on the whole penninsula! And many of the people living there were in the entertainment industry and had moved there from New York. You would have expected to find at least one kosher deli, but no. Lot’s of bagel shops but like typical Californians they had tinkered with the product. Cinnamon and raisin bagels don’t have the same panache.