Oh, that's SO SO SO true...all of them!
If there's a Dunkin Donuts on every corner, you live in New England.
There IS!
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work
there, you live in New England.
Same with big box stores, if someone is struggling to get a box into their car, people will run up and help.
f you measure distance in hours, you live in New England.
Oh yeah. Definitely.
If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and
everybody is passing you, you live in New England.
And the police never get anyone for that. Everyone's in hyperdrive.
If you find 10 degrees 'a little chilly', you live in New England.
Went out to the car with a hoodie the other day, was 15 out.
If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road
construction, you live in New England.
There's several things that can be alongside the road, depending on the beginning of winter to spring. Inverted SUVs, then snow, then snert (snow, slush, dirt), then traffic cones.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live
in New England.
Don't bother with those. NH has homemade ice cream stands that also sell "grindahs", lobster rolls, hot dogs and burgers. And yes, they close for the season. Long line at the windows on the last day.
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with
snow, you live in New England.
Except for frost heaves! Someone visiting asked me what "frost heaves" were, having seen a warning sign. I said "It's what happens when the snowmen drink too much iced vodka."
If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you
live in New England.
Nahhh...deep-cycle Optima battery. Truck/marine sort for the car. First turn of the key at -25 windchill.
If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard
without flinching, you live in New England.
Only two feet?
If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you
live in New England.
Halloween is typically a bunch of puffball parkas with witch hats and scary masks.
If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again,
you live in New England.
Auto thermostat FTW. If you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes.
Forgot one other typical New Englandism, though...the ability to merge into a fast-moving traffic circle without yielding, despite the squeaks of alarm from visiting passengers.