“California does not have the most pleasant people in the world, though.”
It sure did when I arrived here 47 years ago, but it has really changed for the worse, especially here in Silicon Valley. Too much success, too much money, too many money-grubbers, too many cultures who seem to hate civility itself, too many people full of themselves, everybody racing around for no reason. Ugh.
I grew up in Queens and have lived in Massachusetts for the past 40+ years. I know unpleasant people. California (in my limited experience) used to be Midwest nice, but they’ve gotten too full of themselves. Went from Jim Rockford to Nazi Plugosi. There are jerks and nice people everywhere, but the atmosphere is different, in different countries and places. Biggest jerks in the world inhabit the region around the District of Columbia, or as Nazi Plugosi calls it Festung Columbia.