<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nThis is by far one of my favorite parts about New York and something I longingly miss when I’m gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New York’s weather is incredibly diverse with the only constant being humidity. The winters are sometimes mild in both temperature and weather and other times temperatures drop below -25 Fahrenheit and snow covers the ground from November to April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Utah’s weather is fairly consistent across the year and to me is rather dull. Because it is technically in a desert, rainfall is limited. It seems that it rains probably less than 15 times a year for a given city, and there are only a few times a year where there is something close to a downpour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The plus side of Utah is that it is fairly warm all the time and sunny. There’s generally a lack of clouds (to my dismay) but it does provide excellent weather for hiking, swimming, and other outdoor activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But there’s nothing like the full range of seasons of New York. I mean this quite literally, Autumn in the North East United States is the best season ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. The People: Tie?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n There is a famous stereotype that East Coasters are meaner than West Coasters. I think I see where this comes from but I would have to disagree. But to be fair they definitely aren’t nicer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I honestly believe there is literally zero difference in how nice everyone is. I think the difference is the norm for treating strangers. In New York, most people tend to keep to themselves in the face of strangers. People are less likely to strike up a conversation in public and things like that. So that’s how it comes off as mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The opposite effect in Utah is that everyone is so talkative to strangers that it comes off as fake and disingenuous. It feels like people compete to see how friendly they can be and so that’s where that stereotype of fakeness comes from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in the end it’s going to come down to preference. Of course, you can be a more closed person in Utah or a talkative person in New York (both of these with respect to strangers) and that’s fine! Just know there are cultures with norms wherever you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Empire State vs. Beehive State. Who would win in a fight? The Empire or Bees? But seriously, just how different the nicknames of these states are shows just a portion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suggestedbylocals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suggestedbylocals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suggestedbylocals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suggestedbylocals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suggestedbylocals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/suggestedbylocals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6744,"href":"https:\/\/suggestedbylocals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions\/6744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suggestedbylocals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suggestedbylocals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suggestedbylocals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suggestedbylocals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}