> the people i met in the MW were way nicer than the people i knew from the east coast or west coast.

I read once something along the lines of "People in New York say 'fuck off' but mean 'have a good one' where as people in California say 'have a good one' but mean 'fuck off'"

I am from the Seattle area and prefer neither of those scenarios because we are often fairly introverted (see the "Seattle Freeze").