I've only spent a few days each in Seattle and Tampa, but in both cases, the one thing that stood out was that Americans are passively rude. Not very many people, I found, thanked you for holding a door open, or held a door for you, for example. Little things.
When I was in Seattle (2003), I encountered a few neighbourhoods that had American flags on every single house front. I was left wondering how much patriotism was "true" and how much was forced because the neighbour to the left and the neighbour to the right had a flag. Though given this was a year and a half after 911, I could see it.
Your beef sucks. Seriously. That was the other big thing. From fast food to sit down, decent restaraunts, if it aint Alberta Beef, it's pretty terrible.
Otherwise, the individual people were not much different from the average Canadian.
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