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> lot more genuinely nice than most Bay Area folks, too.

I noticed that too. I miss that part of the Midwest as well. I am on the East coast now and here people are too aggressive and competitive, even without an obvious reason to be so. I mean they are still genuine, just genuine in their open hostility so to speak.

They say these are just stereotypes and are not accurate, but I don't know, seem to jive pretty well to what I noticed.