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I have found most New Yorkers to be vibrant, passionate, fun loving, and opinionated. They're great!!! ;D

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JoC: We know the purple house in Gardiner well; it was--and may still be--owned by an acquaintance of ours. In fact, we once had dinner there, having bid on it as part of a fundraiser for the Gardiner Library, which I've been very involved with in fundraising and other activities over the years. Not familiar, though, with the cajun dance at the library. Do you mean the Gardiner Library or Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz (which also has fundraisers which I'm also involved with)?

There is indeed a Mid-Hudson Valley Club which we attended a meeting of in March in Pimlico Rec Center; they meet only bimonthly, and when we went, we met people who had for decades worked closely with good friends of ours (now retired teachers from the Wallkill School District). We will certainly be attending again when we snowbirds return for the late fall, winter, and early spring.

The first week we were in our Villages home in Belvedere, there was a knock on the door and a man called in, 'Did you bring any apples from Wright's?' which is one of our local orchards in Gardiner. Turned out to be a neighbor behind us who also retired to TV from Rhinebeck and who, after his retirement from his lifetime career, took a job driving the sports buses for Rhinebeck School District and so knew Gardiner well. Another of our neighbors two houses from us in TV (close friends of ours since 1964!) had mentioned to him where we had moved from.

Definitely a small world!

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samhass: Thank you, thank you! How could I not agree?...

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I have a cab story. When my father-in-law died, my MIL had trouble walking, so we got her a cab to go to the funeral home (which was just a few blocks away). We put our 8 & 10 year old girls in the cab with her and, before we could give the guy directions, he went zipping away. My MIL spoke no English (gosh knows what the cab driver spoke). We were so relieved when they made it to the funeral home.

We laughed later, but, at the time, it didn't seem funny. :-)

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Cute story.. :bigthumbsup:

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I was born and raised in the Midwest, a Mn native...home of "Minnesota Nice"...(that means you always smile and say Hi nicely while running over the toes of someone you don't like with your shopping cart.)

I spent most of my adult life in Northern California, San Francisco and East Bay. In CA, the world is contained within the boundaries of the state...with one exception only 1/2 of the state is cool...which 1/2? Whichever 1/2 you lived in...

People from San Francisco and L.A, (they don't even use their city's whole name), like New Yorkers, when asked while traveling, where they are from, don't answer the United States, they say their city name.

What do I love about New Yorkers? They are sooo upfront. They tell it like it is, they are tough survivors of whatever life doles out and their passion is awesome to watch. They scare me a little, but they are also such fun to be around.

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What the heck do you mean by that??? 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

You are right Susan...We are upfront... :o

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New York is just fine however...........[size=10pt][size=10pt]

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In my other life I worked for Eastern Airlines at JFK, and most of our passengers originated there. It seemed we had about 1 "ugly American" per 100 passengers, and that stereotype followed the rest of us. There are a lot of very good people there - just like everywhere else. For example, it is not uncommon for several men to stop on a parkway to assist a woman who happened to break down in a bad neighborhood.

Anyway, one day I was waiting to load passengers on a flight and was chatting with the six Atlanta-based flight attendants, five of whom I knew. One was brand new and soaking it all in. We liked each other and talked about our families, etc.

When it was time to load passengers I got up to leave and found the new flight attendant following me to the aircraft door. When she was out of earshot of the others she, in the cutest Georgia drawl, asked where I was from. I told her NY. She responded "but, but you are so niiice!"