When you move to a new place, that place has a culture. If you want locals to like or accept you, you should try to at the very least understand if not adopt part of that culture. It works the same everywhere. In a small town it&#x27;s much more pressing and obvious -- watch how fast you get ostracized when you dump on their culture; in a big city you can kind of get away with doing your own thing and ignoring most of the people&#x2F;culture&#x2F;tradition if you want.<p>People in Seattle have worked very hard for years to build a community and a culture that they enjoy and on the whole represents them and is different from any other city in the country. That hard work is one of the biggest reasons people consider Seattle such a great place to live. Dumping a million rich young people who are there to work themselves to death at amazon for a year before they jump ship and work at a real company somewhere else into the middle of it isn&#x27;t particularly good for that community or culture.<p>If you don&#x27;t know what respecting the culture of a place means then I don&#x27;t really know what to tell you. If you &quot;hear it all the time&quot; that means people are saying it all the time and it means something; I&#x27;d try to understand what they mean rather than being hostile to the idea.