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Lies. These people just don't know how Massachusetts works.
• Put on your turn signal and wait? You're weak, I'm gonna close up the gap.
• Just start nosing over? Eh, he's got gumption, I'll let him in.
• Wait to cross at the crosswalk? What a maroon. No sympathy.
• Charge blindly into the crosswalk? Carry on sir, I'll come to a stop for you, and we will exchange an understated wave. (1% chance I will flip you off and get mad for no discernable reason though)
If you're not from here, it seems like everyone's being a dick all the time, but in their mind, you're just not communicating that you actually need them to get out of the way or whatever.
That's because you are. If your state is infamous for being wildly unsafe in other states, you don't have a different culture, you have ineffective traffic law enforcement. You ain't fuckin aliens, we live in the same damn country, under the same Federal highway laws. We DON'T live in two different cultures.
We live in the same damn one, and you're just bad at it.
I bet the pedestrian deaths are breathtaking. Fuckin excuses.
Not even close. But please, continue to confuse your opinions with objective reality.
I'm 100% open to the conversation if you want to talk about the bad things about Massachusetts, or anything else that's "my team" more or less. But, it's gotta be based in reality, not just prejudice.
The first time I ever rode a motorbike was in Rome (no shit, and yes I knew it was a bad idea).
In the morning I tried to be careful, stay out of the way of cars, and people kept honking and cursing. I think I nearly died trying to get out of a traffic circle.
Over lunch I was informed "motorbikes go where they want to go and assume that cars will work around them, the cars expect that too, you trying to defer to them is what's fucking things up".
And he was right.
Yeah, Boston's the same. If you're trying to get where you're going and you get in someone's way, they're fine with it. If you're in the way because you're timid, they'll hate you for it. It takes some getting used to but it actually makes sense.
Also, it works (for a certain definition) - Boston is #3 in the nation for minor accidents but absolute lowest in the nation for fatalities. We'll smack into you maybe, but when the chips are down we're able to do what's right. There's some kind of overall statement about the city's culture there I think.
weird. I learned to drive in Massachusetts and didn't encounter this.