# Have You Experienced Culture Shock Moving Within Your Own Country? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-experienced-culture-shock-moving-within-your-own-country/947268 "2021-07-25T19:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 52
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-experienced-culture-shock-moving-within-your-own-country/947268/52 "2021-08-08T06:13:21Z")
Late 80s. Moved from the northeast ( exurban, quasi-rural ) to the southeast. Now and again I ran into people greeting/introducing and not at all very long into the conversation came “_Have you found a church yet?_” It was staggering to me. Not so much in the question in and of itself, but at what I thought was an overly bold, presumptuous, and personal question. Comparing notes with other newly relocated employees at work, they ran into the same thing. It took a a hell of a lot of adroitness to respond in a way that didn’t peg me as a two-headed demon on a mission to secularize the bible belt, but yet not present me as a misguided wandering soul spewing entreaties to have others offer to save my soul. In the end, as time went on, the area got more…well…cosmopolitan as the decades wore on, and the awkwardity ( is that a word? ) fixed itself. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-experienced-culture-shock-moving-within-your-own-country/947268)._