If you had to move to a different state/province, what state/province would give you the biggest culture shock/adjustment?

[Buzz Rules]

If you had to move to a different state/province, what state/province would give you the biggest culture shock/adjustment?

 

[georgina]

If you had to move to a different state/province, what state/province would give you the biggest culture shock/adjustment?

You first! Answer your own question.

 

[TippyThomas]

Anything out in the West of the US. I've never been out there yet and I'm sure it's much different than what I'm used to.

 

[Disneylover99]

Quebec.
I don’t speak French.

 

[CGB]

From our military moves, North Dakota was the most unique and different way of life than anywhere else we were stationed. We were there in the winter and let's just say, it did not disappoint.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Probably, Florida.
The man’s parents moved there from MA followed shortly by his then newly married brother and bride. We visited them frequently down thru the years and I realized it was not a lifestyle made for me.The weather, the lack of public transport, the reliance on A/C, limited cultural activities - nah couldn’t do it day in, day out.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Probably Newfoundland. It's just so isolated and far away. But such a lovely province and great people.

 

[Buzz Rules]

You first! Answer your own question.

Nevada.

 

[Dead2009]

If it wasnt to Florida, it would probably be to a mountain town

 

[NannyBeBe]

California

 

[tvguy]

Anywhere with snow. I have driven in snow 4 times in my life, and very light snow at that. The shoveling a driveway, dealing with the roads would be a huge shock.

 

[tvguy]

California

As a native Californian who worked in an industry with a high turnover of employees with most coming in from out of state, I can see that. Our laws can be baffling.
My wife has a co-worker who moved her from South Carolina who is trying to just navigate our laws on Driver's Licenses and Auto Registration. She got a ticket for having out of state plates. California gives you two weeks after starting a job here to get California plates and a California Driver's Licenses. She just assumed she was good until her South Carolina license plates and license expired. And this came after she got a ticket for not having a parking permit to park on the street. She lives in an apartment in the midtown area with no parking lot, so on street parking is the only option, but you have to go to the city to get a sticker to get a resident permit to park overnight on the street.

 

[MICKIMINI]

California.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I haven't been to many states but so far Vermont a few weeks back totally freaked me out quite a lot in unexpected ways. Mostly, because it is all wilderness of trees and no sidewalks of lawns mostly weedscapes without clearing trees for homes and farms, like I literally got claustrophobic anxiety. It wasn't an eww thing, my body literally freaked out so that is not my scene, I def need clearings and some farms here and there to feel ok. Pretty sure the really hot states would make me a prisoner in my home with rheumy stuff so best guess is I might be where I am supposed to be, in the NE

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

As a midwesterner I would speculate somewhere like NY (namely NYC) would give me a huge culture shock. Rural NY would probably not be as big of an adjustment. I would also suspect that CA would be a pretty big culture shock for me.

 

[Kitty 34]

California

 

[bennifer]

Someplace where it doesn’t snow! Or near an ocean

 

[DrJanosz]

Thank you Mr Buzz for creating this post. As a European it
Is interesting to see Americans would be surprise from culture. I think I would have to say though that USA would be a culture shock for me. Many peoples on this thread say California. Why? Is California that different?

 

[disneychrista]

The South. Maybe Alabama or Georgia.

 

[monsterkitty]

The South. Maybe Alabama or Georgia.

For me, anywhere in the South.