britinusa777777755

Just a few observations, currently living in NJ very close to NYC.

1. Getting in elevators, normally Brits wait for people to get out before attempting to enter right?
2. Letting person in adjacent bus seat get off first
3. Waiting until its safe to pass
4. Personal space, people walking way too close unnecessarily
5. People grabbing items in the supermarket that you were obviously about to grab
6. People attempting to cut the line
7. Not giving way to even elderly people at crosswalks
8. When you stop at a ped crossing for an elderly person the car behind tries to "go around" almost hitting said pedestrian and honks out of impatience

Does anybody else experience this? It London the same ? Wondering if I can even get used to this or will I have to move out into the sticks to get away from it :P

quiltman

That's exactly how it is here in the Philippines! Plus of course most drivers have never had a lesson or taken a driving test.

AdobePinon

If you have to ask...

britinusa777777755

Are you in the USA now or Philippines? I've heard about the drug wars going on over there.

I'm sure things like litter, noise and a lack of politeness are secondary concerns though right?

md95065

If you feel like this about New Jersey you are going to love Manhattan ...

britinusa777777755

I actually made that post after commuting back from Manhattan I am thinking of moving to western NJ and working in NJ instead of NYC (with a pay cut)

How is life on the west coast?

Jerseygirl

I was just going to say...you must live in a different part of NJ than me.

Relobotomy

Sounds just like Paris.

SultanOfSwing

Sounds like any big city, really. It's the same in Chicago. Anywhere you've got millions of people all in a rush and in each others' way.

Up here in the suburbs it's a bit quieter though, so that's nice. Driving still tends to be the worst though for impatience, and I'm just as guilty of that as anyone is. When I have to drive in and around the city I turn into a raging knob-end, but that's because if you don't you'll never get where you need to go.

viitav

Sounds JUST like everyday life in London especially commuting to Canary Wharf.

Lion in Winter

It's just a different culture. Here, it's not considered rude. It's just normal.

All your 7s are going to give me a seizure, btw.

Pulaski

No. Your sample is very small and highly localized.

You wouldn't expect London to be the same as Harrogate, Penzance, or Inverness, and your experience, presumably in one town in NJ is not necessarily typical of a country of 325million people.
Maybe where you live, but where I live I am probably guilty of a couple of those things as viewed from the perspective of the locals here (car horns are rarely heard here, "passing" in a car is almost unheard of). . If transplants from NJ and NY who come down here don't adjust pretty quickly then they are rightly branded as "obnoxious yankees".

FWIW the "yield to people on the crosswalk law" is rarely ignored here, though many pedestrians are reluctant to put it to the test. I have no such concerns about marching determinedly onto even a non-controlled crosswalk comfortable that vehicles will stop .... but prepared to scarper if they don't. That said, I always try to cross the road without inconveniencing vehicles if I can.

SultanOfSwing

Amazingly though, generalization as it may be, most Americans can spell 'million' ...

Pulaski

I can also proof read and correct my post, which I did a few seconds after I posted it.

SultanOfSwing

Doesn't matter, I still saw it