Everyone did seem very friendly. I don't know if that's typical for all the USA or just that area, but we weren't necessarily doing tourist-y things and just meeting every day locals everyone still seemed very friendly.
And I did catch something on a news channel over there, they were complaining about the rising price of fuel, just like we do, but I worked it out, and they are paying less than half what we pay for a gallon of petrol!
