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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
Neko_Ali:
I would argue that it's 'relative sanity'. We're still heavily influenced and affected by being smack dab in the middle of Georgia.
Zebediah:
Hey, I know the feeling - I grew up in Charlotte and have lived in Raleigh and Durham, three islands of sanity in the mess that is North Carolina.
Orkboy:
--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Jan 2015, 14:31 ---Experiencing America is oddly strange, I find. To an Australian, many aspects of America are instantly familiar as a result of the ubiquity of its cultural products in our media*, and I work in the computer industry where a large proportion of the products and standards that shape it originated in America. I speak English fluently, so there is no language barrier, despite my different dialect and accent. I could almost imagine myself at home, but then something will come along to remind me of how intensely foreign America is, in a manner that is almost jarring in contrast.
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If it makes you feel any better, most Americans feel the same way about other parts of America. Being stationed in Florida, I felt like it was just different enough to be unsettling, and it's not even that far from Texas to Florida. I was only 700 miles from home.
Emperor Norton:
I always say Atlanta, just because internationally people know where that is, at least vaguely. I'm actually about an hour out in Athens. Just the college town vibe, and the number of transplants from other places changes it so much from the normal South, once you get outside and into rural areas its just frightening.
I always get offended by Southern stereotypes, because I'm like "its not like that at all" and then I have to correct myself and think "Oh, yeah, I live in Athens. Athens is bizarro-South".
But yeah, really, even to me, there are times where characters do things that don't make since to me. Like the number of characters with no cars. The fact that taxis and other public transit is actually a thing people use. Or the whole distance stuff (small state people are weird).
eschaton:
I spent a year studying at the University of Warwick back in 1999-2000, and the dormitory was set up almost exactly like a U.S. dorm, with only one bathroom for the ladies and gents respectively per floor.
Well, almost. We did, for some odd reason, have a sink in our rooms. I have to admit, I would piss in it rather than go down the hall to the bathroom. :-D I was only 20 and all.
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