Friendly home feeling

[Bassy]

I live in an area where you can't get down the hill without waving to at least a dozen people and I felt an overwhelming feeling to share that today. It's a very friendly place to live. Just wondering if others out there get to enjoy these little perks in their daily life. Feel free to share.<br />Bassy

 

[Boomyal]

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You're lucky Bassy. Most of my neigbors, in the pacific northwest, are in such a hurry to avoid anyone they practically cut the trunk of their cars off, with their garage door, as they pull into the garage. I guess that is what a lack of sunshine does to the personality.

 

[dhud64]

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People wave in California? Are you sure they aren't waving with one finger?<br /><br />Depending on the part of the city your in, it's very friendly here too!<br />Some big city folks call us red-necks though! <br /><br />I used to work with a STUPID woman from Independence, Mo. (The meth capital of the states). She is one of those IDIOTS thats say we're red-necks!<br /><br />Q) Hey grandpa- what's for supper?<br />A) Hogs a** and hominy!<br />

 

[Bassy]

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Hey dhud64 <br /> My Grandparents lived in Stockton. All my Dad's side is back there and live around Kansas City. I don't know if they wave though. Rednecks? I believe I could be called a Red-neck. Proud of it too!<br /> Bassy

 

[bubbakat]

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Bassy I to live in a county with about 38000 people and my wife hates to go out and eat here because people will always stop and talk.<br /> Out of all these people I probably know 40000 of them.<br /> We were out sat. night and this guy and his wife stopped and chat for a few and she says who is that. I pause for a second and said that is the local circuit court judge Him and I go fishing a lot together. enjoy the feeling bassy because there are to many places that are to unfriendly.

 

[Bart Sr.]

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Well I live in "Small Town Minnesota" and it is hard to even step out on the deck without waving to or speaking to a neighbor.<br />Everybody knowing everybody along with this being my wife's home town and our THIRTEEN YEARS involvement with kid's baseball we certainly do a lot of waving and chatting with the locals.<br />I can't picture us moving away from here.<br /><br />ABOUT FOUR WEEKS TO ICE OUT--AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!

 

[snapperbait]

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Used to be that way here long time ago.. Once upon a time this was a fairly small town... Not anymore.. <br /><br /> About the only folks who'll wave at ya and say hi anymore are the one's who've been here all their lives.. Ain't too many of us left..

 

[snapperbait]

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Oh yeah..

 

[JB]

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I think that everyone who lives within 10 miles of The Hideout recognizes my truck and waves, speaks to me at the Post Office, and if we should meet in town, speaks to me and stops to "visit" a few minutes.<br /><br />Most of them do it to each other, too.<br /><br />It wasn't always that way. The first ten or so years I was out here I was a newcomer. Now I am a neighbor. <br /><br />It is a good feeling, Bassy. Thanks for reminding us.

 

[boatingfool]

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We live in a neighborhood of waivers.<br /><br />It does give you a warm fuzzy.

 

[JoeW]

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Bassy,<br />Neighbors came over yesterday just to say howdy. We all ended up going out to dinner last night. We had a great time. Most of my neighbors wave and will stop and talk when we meet at the grocery. My wife is a nurse and she worked at Dameron Hospital in Stockton for 11 years. She loved Stockton, but the commute was a killer (over an hour each way).<br /><br />dhud<br />

People wave in California? Are you sure they aren't waving with one finger?<br />

You have California confused with New York.

 

[roscoe]

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I used to visit the area that I now live in.<br />I remember everyone waving at everyone, even me.<br />But no more.<br />I have one neighbor that waves, but I think that is out of fear I might hit her on her daily walk.<br /><br />I still wave at the farmers, to brighten their day and to let them know I'm not mad at them for making me pull off the road so they can pass by with their equipment.<br /><br />I will occasionally wave at a stranger going the other way on the road, just to confuse them.

 

[aspeck]

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roscoe, they used to wave, but you moved there and they stopped <br /><br />Should that be telling us something?

 

[LadyFish]

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We live in a very close knit community. People wave from their boats, their cars, and when they're walking to the beach. They make it a point to be friendly. We live on a canal and talk to every boat that passes by whether we know them or not. <br /><br />This small water community of only 1,500 residents know that eventually we will all need eachother should a hurricane hit. Its funny how even a tropical depression bonds you with your neighbors. The clean up is shared by all residents and we all look out for one another, the way it should be. Its sad that it sometimes has to take a disaster to bring people closer.<br /><br />As for the tourists that visit the island, they are on vacation and are always happy and friendly too.

 

[mellowyellow]

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moved from Long Beach, CA where there a few<br />hundred thousand houses to a tiny upsate hamlet<br />with a few hundred houses. gotta love small town<br />USA, especially if you have kids

 

[gaugeguy]

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Don't see it as much as you used to. I wave and will be waved to by the people that live on the same road as I do (about 15 houses). In town, I hardly ever get waved to.<br /><br />Out on the water is a different story, it seems like I wave to guys in 50 different boats everytime I go out.