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Our youngest married a lady from Indiana and I remember getting a call from her crying because nobody would let her go into traffic. I could hear the cars behind her honking. I had no advice to give her other than she just needs to toughen up and go for it. That was about 10 years ago and the traffic is worse now.I wouldn't say soar but it's still nice. My spirit tends to soar more when I'm walking to the stadium, driving around my old home town, seeing my old friends, eating my favorite marinated steak tips (because that's not a thing in the midwest for some reason) and I actually miss Papa Gino's pizza.
Like Nikolai I don't miss living there. There's so much animosity in the north east part of the U.S. and I think I figured out why it is. It's the driving. To get from point A to point B that's only 10 miles away usually takes 45 minutes because of all the winding roads, one way streets and general traffic and I think that's where most of the pissed off energy comes from. When I have to drive in Massachusetts's I have to change my mindset back to being a total aggressive **** otherwise I wont get anywhere and I'll end up holding up traffic for everyone else and make things worse. I remember one time after getting back to the midwest I still had my Boston driving brain and I ended up cutting someone off (which would have been totally normal in Boston) but the person I cut off leaned on their horn at me and it took me a second to realize "Oh whoops that was a totally unnecessary **** move of me
As for pizza, we moved to a neighboring state and the first thing I did was look and see if there was a Santoro's pizza and sub shop. I was so thrilled when I found one only a mile or so away from our new home that I headed right over. As I came down the street I could see the sign up ahead. When I got there I could see that the sign was the only thing left and Santoro's was gone.
One of the things I'm learning is that most of the massholes who come up here still drive that way and have made an impression on the locals.