[Annemieke Roell]

Originally Posted by prerunner1982

sorry to hear that groovy. Not sure where you live or work but sounds like some unhappy people.
I am from texas, which is worse than being a yank around here.
Luckily i talk like an okie so i can fly under the radar. :d

Hahahahahahahaha

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by GroovyC

Sorry for the late reply. I grew up in a jewish neighborhood in Boston and half my family is Jewish. Here I haven't met one single Jew. Or one single person from Boston. Someone told me they hate the northeast US accents the most and we are rude. Honestly the person who said it has a horrible life and is just a miserable person in a job I just started. I let it get to me way too much and it got so bad I had to go into HR at my company. There are idiots everywhere.

Oklahoma is growing on me. There is a very different culture...But I love how polite people are, the affordability or living, the low crime. I love it when my son calls me maam. I love that the men in business meetings at work offer their seat to ladies when there are not enough chairs in the conference. It may seem like not a big deal but your begin to feel like the world cares about nice. I have no family for 1500 miles but yet when my car had issues in the ice storm I loved how quickly someone came to help when they didn't know or have any motive but being kind. I can see how you are coined the "friendly state!" I miss the big city, I miss the ocean, mountains of the Northeast but am realizing this place has a lot of pros other places lack in.

Ancestry.com says that I am a 1% Jewish African-American how about that?

[Mattie Jo]

Originally Posted by GroovyC

Sorry for the late reply. I grew up in a jewish neighborhood in Boston and half my family is Jewish. Here I haven't met one single Jew. Or one single person from Boston. Someone told me they hate the northeast US accents the most and we are rude. Honestly the person who said it has a horrible life and is just a miserable person in a job I just started. I let it get to me way too much and it got so bad I had to go into HR at my company. There are idiots everywhere.

Oklahoma is growing on me. There is a very different culture...But I love how polite people are, the affordability or living, the low crime. I love it when my son calls me maam. I love that the men in business meetings at work offer their seat to ladies when there are not enough chairs in the conference. It may seem like not a big deal but your begin to feel like the world cares about nice. I have no family for 1500 miles but yet when my car had issues in the ice storm I loved how quickly someone came to help when they didn't know or have any motive but being kind. I can see how you are coined the "friendly state!" I miss the big city, I miss the ocean, mountains of the Northeast but am realizing this place has a lot of pros other places lack in.

If where you live doesn't have a synagogue, then hopefully they will have a Unitarian Universalist church where you will meet people like you.

if you have a library where you live see if they have a book group going, where you will meet more open minded people, that is, unless it is a religious book group.

we all had to learn to fit in if we were from elsewhere. how long will you be here?