u/Plasmelon

Some people live in bubbles and don’t realize it and have trouble integrating new information from a wider array of people. They think their niche opinion is the default and everything else is strange and/or inauthentic.

People point out a bunch of different opinions they only hear here and don’t consider that maybe it‘s because they interact with more different people here.

I’ve read a lot of angry essays from people about how some imaginary collective of people here hates or loves x place and some crazy theory to explain why, when really it’s something that’s common unless you live in a bubble and the individual who wrote the essay is having trouble accepting people liking something else.

What’s the value of discussion here if any opinion you don’t like is dismissed as not real?

Presumably most people aren’t going to agree with you here. If you feel the need to outright dismiss or minimize any opinion you don’t like, why are you here?

So many posts here about how people from x place suck and that’s why people can’t make friends.

No, it’s you. Something about your personality is shitty or you are in the wrong place and don’t click with the local culture, but that isn’t an issue with the people there.

It’s like 99% of the time people disparage “typical redditors,” it’s over something imaginary or something normal which they just think is weird because they’re chronically online.

They want to prove they’re not chronically online, but they can’t.

It seems to infect every sub and happen over the most random shit.

People come up with all sorts of theories as to why they see opinions they don’t like here when it’s really just they’re interacting with an assortment of Americans for the first time.

If you travel and/or moved around and talk to people who did the same, nothing is really out of the ordinary here.

If you stay in a bubble and convince yourself everyone wants to live where you do, then this place is gonna frustrate you with opinions you find unusual due to your lack of experience with people from around the country.

People will not notice the irony in being like “I only see people recommend [city in the top 50 in population out of thousands of cities] on reddit. It’s because people here are out of touch.”

Or “people here don’t like the type of weather I like. They must be out of touch because obviously everyone who isn’t a dork only likes one type of weather.”

It seems like many people don’t realize no city or state contains the majority of people and on a national level, there is room to have a popular place also be unpopular.

Lots of people love LA. Lots of people hate it. They’re just not in LA, so people who love LA are going to see people hate it here more than they do irl.

I suspect I’ll get some response about how everyone wants to live in x place and you only see “everyone” say otherwise here because of politics, introversion, social awkwardness, lack of understanding of the world, etc.