Besides the obvious “welcome to [state name]” sign. Is there a significant change in architecture, infrastructure, agriculture, store brands, maybe even culture?
Besides the obvious “welcome to [state name]” sign. Is there a significant change in architecture, infrastructure, agriculture, store brands, maybe even culture?
A lot of our residential infrastructure is underground, because of the weather we have. Though, there’s a fair amount of aerial hardware as well. Where I live is famous for ice storms, and every few years there’s a major outage that lasts anywhere from 12 to 48 hours. They’re rare, but they do occur. More often it’s because someone hit a pole or ground mount transformer, versus a falling branch or lightning bolt.
I still prefer ice, snow, and occasional outages to unbearable heat and humidity, earthquake, and hurricane tradeoff being further south or west.
To answer OP, there’s a visible change in road surface and signage not only at state borders, but even between county and town lines. Each county handles the road a different way, and the finish/quality can differ a LOT even between municipalities and counties.
I get that. A lot of ours is too. But I live an hour from the area I’m talking about, the weather isn’t that different, and I still see wire poles up there waiting to be taken down by a tree branch in the next ice storm. CTs trees tend to be pruned so they don’t overhang the roads at all. Its the most jarring difference driving from, for example, Sherman CT to Pawling NY.