I have to chime in because I do feel like Minneapolis/ minnesota *is* harder. Maybe not to make friends but there is little social connection here.
Just going to Milwaukee, 5 hours away if you drive like I do, people on elevators chat and smile. Other women in bathrooms help each other. People in restaurants move over and then say something nice.
Back here in minnesota people seem to avert their eyes, bracing for any sort of accidental social encounter. Not that these interactions result in friends per se but it makes everything seem frosty.
That's interesting on the frostiness. I 100% know what you mean by that. I really do! I feel SO OVER THE TOP here sometimes. When I first moved to town I felt I had to dial it back-- "it" being my entire personality. Twenty years later I'm just ME and don't care that I seem so "extra."
Go you! And that picture of you!
I have to chime in because I do feel like Minneapolis/ minnesota *is* harder. Maybe not to make friends but there is little social connection here.
Just going to Milwaukee, 5 hours away if you drive like I do, people on elevators chat and smile. Other women in bathrooms help each other. People in restaurants move over and then say something nice.
Back here in minnesota people seem to avert their eyes, bracing for any sort of accidental social encounter. Not that these interactions result in friends per se but it makes everything seem frosty.
That's interesting on the frostiness. I 100% know what you mean by that. I really do! I feel SO OVER THE TOP here sometimes. When I first moved to town I felt I had to dial it back-- "it" being my entire personality. Twenty years later I'm just ME and don't care that I seem so "extra."