I hate to say it, but this post shows how absolutely smashed mentally some city-based Americans are. Full of anxiety, fear, and general angst about what should be normal operating behaviour as a common city resident. I'm finishing a week up with my buds in Barcelona, and everything in this post is the exact OPPOSITE of the mentality we've seen here. Friendly people, happy to chat, guys and girls alike, no concern or fear and no overwhelming motive of anything. Talking for talkings sake.
My buddies are still working and living in US but I've been living in europe for the past 6 years... and I gotta say, the US has become so weird to me, especially super "liberal" culture, if you can even call it that. People simply don't know how to talk to one another anymore. It's fucked.