What is the stereotype for the state/province/region you live in?

I said it was hard to translate, the israeli varsion of the chav.
Easy to recognise with thier fake gold jewlery and the line we hear everytime we walk by them: "Got a shekel/cig?"

Edit: We have girl chavs too, better known as fakazot.
 
I dont even know if Connecticut has any stereotypes. Towards the New York border, there are more rich people there.
 
Virginia. Virginia....

I would say that it's looked at as sort of an old-money state, and it's seen as Southern but not Southern. Of course, my part of the state is not much like that at all. Indeed, we're probably perceived as practically part of West Virginia by the easterners (which isn't that far off).
 
VRWCAgent said:
I swear, there were toll booths every mile or two miles. It was insane and I never, ever, want to visit New Jersey again. Actually, I never want to visit NYC or New Jersey again. It's the only part of the country that I'll never again willingly go to.
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That's funny, because when I visited my cousins near St. Louis, I swore I'd never go back to Missouri. The pace is so slow, that it's amazing anything ever gets done. Come to think of it, I found most of the people I met to be rather slow, too.

There's a lot more to Jersey than the extremely limited portion that you no doubt "experienced".

Besides the mafia sterotype already mentioned, I think people from Jersey also have a reputation for always being in a hurry. That reputation is well deserved in north Jersey, but a little weaker the closer you get to Pennsylvania.
 
VRWCAgent said:
I swear, there were toll booths every mile or two miles. It was insane and I never, ever, want to visit New Jersey again. Actually, I never want to visit NYC or New Jersey again. It's the only part of the country that I'll never again willingly go to.
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New Jersey is definitely deserving of that reputation, though it's not just New Jersey. Going north on I-95 from Baltimore, the first toll booth is in Cecil County, MD ($5 to go through your crappy little county? Yeah, right.). Then, there's another toll booth at the Delaware border ($2 to enter Delaware. :rolleyes:). Then, when you enter New Jersey on I-295, you have the choice of staying on I-295, which doesn't charge tolls, but is in horrible condition, or going on the New Jersey Turnpike, which is in somewhat better condition, but, again, is a toll road.

And this is just in southern NJ. I've never driven in northern NJ.

edit - now that I think of it, returning from New Jersey on the Pennsylvania turnpike was cheaper than going on I-95 and didn't require driving through Hell Baltimore.
 
Bærum is usually typed as "snobbishly upper-class".

When people hear me say that I'm from there, they sometimes refuse to believe me.
 
Bozo Erectus said:
I guess these days people associate New Jersey with the Mafia. I remember the good old days, when we were known for foul stenches that roll across the land.
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I still refer to NJ as the "Armpit of America".

In maryland its hardto stereotype the noth thinks were dixi the south thinks were yankee. Internaly you have the yuppy city folk and the country nednecks.
 
No one has heard of the place where I live. :p
I live nowhere.
 
Riesstiu IV said:
We’re all pretty familiar with national stereotypes but what about the regional stereotypes of your nation?

For Idaho, it’s pretty limited because of the small population. People have an image of either potato farmers of Scandinavian ancestry or militant neo-Nazi groups armed to the teeth. I’m not sure which is worse.

Texas has a lot of stereotypes… mostly bad. Terrible politicians, a massive ego compared to other states, and cowboys who go on cattle drives. I believe there are no longer any cowboys in the literal sense or cattle drives. The other stereotypes have a lot of truth to them though.
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New York is full of guido Italian mafiosos, and everyone's corrupt. Everyone speaks with that funny accent.
 
Full of hippies and bums.
 
Kansas. Backward Christian witchhunters who want to reverse the great progressions of science with their insane "morality" thing.

But seriously, I know people who fit this stereotype, but most Christians I know are all for science and support moral sense and freedom of thought at the same time.

CivGeneral said:
I dont even know if Connecticut has any stereotypes. Towards the New York border, there are more rich people there.
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I always think of minutemen when I think of Connecticut, but that's just me.
 
Spartan117 said:
does anyone live in major urban cities...highly populated?..

chicago?..new york city?..los angelos? etc..?
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I attend University in Washington DC, so I live there for most of the year, if that counts
 
CivGeneral said:
I dont even know if Connecticut has any stereotypes. Towards the New York border, there are more rich people there.
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When I think of Connecticut, first image to come to mind is WASPS drowning in money.
 
Oregon: (that place north of California)

-We are all lazy
-We smoke a kilo of weed every day per person
-We love to hug trees
-We are all pasty white hippies
-We are mostly unemployed bohemians
-We love nature, free love, and beer
-We are addicted to organic/alternative food
-Nothing exciting ever happens here ever.
-It is always raining here every day of the year
-Welcome to the methamphetamine capital of the world.
-We are all relatively poor, and thus live like scavengers


I will say that some of these stereotypes actually hold a grain of truth to them.
 
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