[evincarofautumn]

Well I only moved across the country (NH to CA), so the biggest differences I’ve noticed have been in dialect and food.

People think I’m quaint for using “wicked” as an adverb here, but the local “hella” is both less emphatic and used slightly differently. And my accent probably comes off as “old-fashioned”.

Part of it is just moving from a rural area to a suburban one, but at least among my friends & family back home, it was pretty normal to make a whole meal, or a substantial part of it, from home-grown, homemade, wild-caught, or foraged foods. I would’ve expected to see more of that here in CA considering its agricultural fertility, but I have to go out of my way to visit farmer’s markets or “localvore” restaurants. In New England it was just around—my family would grow/make/catch/find/harvest stuff and swap it with friends, neighbors, and coworkers. You knew someone who kept chickens, so you’d take some eggs off their hands so they wouldn’t go to waste; your garden produced far too many green beans, so you’d give them away—that sort of thing.

[function_seven]

> but the local “hella” is both less emphatic and used slightly differently.

So you're in Northern CA, I take it? In Southern California, “hella” is widely mocked. Regional differences are quite fractal :)

[evincarofautumn]

Yeah, SF bay area, although I didn’t actually hear “hella” that much until I started spending time in Reno, NV, where my partner is from. Most of my coworkers have been from elsewhere in the country & world.