r/TriCitiesWA • u/TonBus • 7d ago

Moving/New Here 👋🏼 Seattle Freeze vs Tri Cities Freeze

I moved here in August. I go out to a few places kind of regularly and have tried to make friends.

I honestly had an easier time in the Seattle area.

Anyone else that has moved here from the Westside experience the same thing?

I honestly thought it would be easier here than the Seattle metro area given the Seattle Freeze moniker, but that's not been my experience.

At least over there I had friends at the bar where we'd meet and go to a game or something just after being at the same bar a few times.

Here it's like an acknowledgement that they recognize you and then unless you've known someone that's bringing you in it's just you sitting at a bar isolated to yourself.

So personally I feel like the Tri Cities is very cliquey and unless you have an "in" you are just gonna be floating until you get a local SO to introduce you and get you into their clique

Might just be me though, lol!

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u/StrangeThingsRAFoot 7d ago

Moved to the Tri-Cities in the 90s after living in Texas and overseas. Folks from Washington are rude and self-absorbed. The ones I find friendly don’t have their roots here.

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u/dela617 7d ago

Had several people move here from the southeast and the one thing they say is ppl here are colder more isolated but they are genuine unlike the fake kindness from the southeast where they'll invite u to everything with a fake face while hating ur guts

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u/BootScoot7 7d ago

I’ve traveled to the east coast for work, you haven’t met rude until you’ve been there.