Rhode Island

[Whiskey_Dickens]

@Skara_Brae

Also, as a note to out of town family visiting: It is a HUGE pain to drive to up to the Boston Airport. Really. We have a perfectly good airport in Providence. Do not commit us to a 4 hour round trip to pick you up because you want to save $50 on your flight!

Umm, I believe you mean TF Green, the Warwick Airport.

[KCB615]

@Whiskey_Dickens

Umm, I believe you mean TF Green, the Warwick Airport.

Mayor Avedesian, is that you?

[UncleMoose]

@Whiskey_Dickens

Umm, I believe you mean TF Green, the Warwick Airport.

I think you mean Hillsgrove, the airport in Warwick that serves Providence.

The fact that it was renamed to TF Green means nothing to the old timers in RI.

[Skara_Brae]

@Whiskey_Dickens

Umm, I believe you mean TF Green, the Warwick Airport.

Why is the airport code PVD? Huh? Huh???

I remember when the airport terminal was just a huge room. No food, no services. They didn’t even have conveyor belts for the luggage. They’d just wheel in the big carts and you’d have to pick through them to claim your bags…

[TriPolar]

@Whiskey_Dickens

My experiences mirror this exactly. My mom moved to Rhode Island from Alberta in the early 90’s and I followed in Feb. 2001. At school, my nickname was “Canada.” Literally just the name of the country I was from. We were kind of the neighbourhood mascot, everyone was interested in our business and always curious. Didn’t help that my mom is eccentric to put it nicely.
I remember the first day of University, they had us in a group and were handing out prizes. One of them was for “student from the furthest away.” They had no clue where I was talking about, but gave me the prize anyways.
I was always prepared to tell strangers exactly where I was from, down to the main street I lived off of, because that is hugely important to other Rhode Islanders.

You must have been way down in the southern end of the state. Up in the far north here French-Canadians were settling for a long time. There’s Bissetts and Benoits all over the place. Maybe they don’t have much connection to their Canadian roots but I’m sure they’ve heard of Canada and know it’s just north of the western Mass. wasteland.

@robby Remember how oncoming traffic would completely stop to let you turn left, or exit a parking lot? Incredibly courteous but very different from anywhere else in New England.

The quality of driving varies, but nothing, absolutely nothing compares to the wild aggressive driving of Massachsettsianites, or whatever those road maniacs call themselves.

[TriPolar]

@Skara_Brae

As my grandfather would say, “Why would we go there? We have everything we need here.”

Yes we do. We even have a shopping center called Massachusetts.

[Olentzero]

My first wife spent some time growing up in Rhode Island. She and her sister still get all moony over Autocrat.

[KCB615]

@Olentzero

My first wife spent some time growing up in Rhode Island. She and her sister still get all moony over Autocrat.

I have a half empty bottle in the fridge, and a full replacement in a cabinet ready to be pressed into service. I went to college in Connecticut and didn’t have coffee milk for months. One of the worst tragedies I’ve had to endure.