Seattle Freeze

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... which is known for the Seattle Freeze.

I don't know if you've ever heard of this.

I've heard this.

There's...

It may seem like a stra- like a completely strange act to do in Seattle, and I think my concern and the reason I'm so passionate talking about this is 'cause I think...

I worry that the Seattle Freeze is be- gonna become the baseline for-

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So interestingly, I'm talking on one hand as an American who grew up with this, you know, friendliness to strangers culture.

Also, I've experienced what it's like to be sort of suspicious and be like, what is this person really trying to get at? And then I would even notice when I would go back and visit my family in Seattle, so Funny enough, Seattle is known for something called the Seattle Freeze, which I personally haven't experienced it, but everyone says it's there, so I'm sure it's real.

But I lived more in the suburbs of Seattle, so I wasn't in the city proper, and so that might have changed things.

But whenever I visit my parents, I'll go to the grocery store and the gas station, and the people working there are like, How's it going? How's your day? What are you doing this weekend? And almost because I've spent so much time like on the east coast and in the northeast of the U.S., now sometimes like it always like throws me off a little bit.

And it's a very cold culture.

It's something literally called the Seattle Freeze.

It's a very specific attitude in the Pacific Northwest where people are generally very cold to one another.

Yeah.

people do talk about like the –

they call it the Seattle freeze because supposedly people in the Pacific Northwest are like unfriendly and dour.

I was like – Yeah.

I was like that's why I felt so at home there because that's my people.