Markham, its nice to think people are just plain folks wherever u go, but in my experience of living all over the country, in several foreign countries, and studying and teaching at a dozen colleges, that just isn’t so. Are you telling me that if you walked into a room filled with 100 New Yorkers or 100 Nebraskans that u couldn’t tell the difference? The op was interested in friendliness. My point was if you’re looking for the friendlier place, you might want to think twice about going to the place that with such a high % of New Yorkers.