I recently moved to Utah from Maryland (THE Freak state). Meanest? Maryland was mean: people with pitbulls, people looking at you like they hoped to mug you, liberals...you know, human flotsam and jetsam. In the month I have been in Utah I have not met one mean person or seen one mean act. Everyone says hello, clerks are helpful beyond the call of duty and everyone has been coerdial ansd helpful. Have I died and gone to Heaven?????
Just ping the Mormon hating cabal who bobs around this forum like untethered turds in a punchbowl.
They'll be glad to convince you that (a)you are in hell or (b)you've just been lucky enough to associate with the 35% or so of Utah's population which are not Mormon.
No, you're approximately 800 miles northwest of Heaven, but you're a lot closer than you were as a resident of Maryland. ;^).
“Have I died and gone to Heaven?????”
Nah, you overshot heaven by about 750-1000 miles.
AKA: “Texas”
A couple of anecdotes--
When I was in Silver Spring, Md., a few years ago, I tried to ask passersby for directions to a certain street, but got responses such as, "get away from me!" I finally had to find the street on my own.
In Cedar City, Utah, I hit a patch of snow while trying to parallel park and wound up skidding so that I was perpendicular to the street, then I couldn't drive away because my wheels were stuck in the snow. A group of teenagers suddenly appeared and pulled my car out. I figured that's one of the ways in which "red" states differ from "blue" states.
I had the misfortune of living in Maryland next to DC for a spell one time. I made great friends there but the public culture was crude and hard.