I moved from Florida because I wanted to be around people more like me, more similar to my person than the bible thumping right-wing southerners.
My company paid for a ticket to the jQuery convention in Portland. I've attended day one, day two is tomorrow. It's made me realize exactly how much I hate people. It's not just the south. All the fucking losers with their massive guts waddling around in overcoats and fedoras. Neckbeards everywhere. Greasy, disgusting hair braided behind them. Even if they weren't physically unappealing, my follow developers were completely full of themselves and could do nothing but boast about their own accomplishments and how good they were compared to their coworkers. I struck up a conversation with a girl next to me. She wasn't dull or unintelligent, but she was uninteresting. She had this mechanical, autistic noise to her voice that reminded me of the Big Bang Theory. At lunch I joined a 7 person table and engaged them in conversation. The guy to my left was 300lb and smelled of BO. One or two had stuff to say, the rest kind of nodded their heads and stared at the speaker. The girl at the table said almost nothing the entire time and knew 2 of the people there. It was pathetic.
Attending the convention I didn't learn that much. Most of the speakers came to voice their concerns of poor practices and to preach the virtues of the latest and greatest MVC, content management tool, publishing service, etc. It felt like a car show or something. Nobody at a car show comes to work on cars, they come to show off how awesome their car is.
I'm really starting to get cynical. I truly feel like a misfit because I don't understand people and I don't enjoy the things that they do. It's weird. Everyone there seemed like a robot trying to make themselves stand out with their over the top clothing as opposed to just being a real person with emotions and higher thought that wasn't feigned.