Since getting into PUA, my confidence has skyrocketed. I no longer have any fear around attractive women. Though I am still working on approaching (i tend to overthink situations), I am improving on a daily basis. With this, there has been an issue that I have had trouble overcoming.

I live in Central Pennsylvania, Harrisburg for those of you who know the area. One of the problems I have not been able to overcome out here is the mentality of the people my age (I'm 21 btw). I'm a New Jersey native and that has been a problem because the people here have somewhat of a small town mentality in the sense that they tend to stick to their friends that they have known since they were kids. While people in my area socialize of course, most of them tend to be introverted and shut out those who don't quickly fit their personality type.

Any tips on how to get around this bs?

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Expect everything, and anything seems like nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems like everything.

Yeah back when I was in school I went to a school where everyone hung out together with the same people they went to highschool with which were usually the same people they had been going to school with since kindergarden. Either that or they hung out with their frat brothers or sorority sisters and had there swaps and didn't socialize much outside of there social circles.

Here's what I used to do. I learned that if I just walked up to people and said sometime during the conversation, sometimes it would be the first thing I would say. "Wow I love this town, everywhere here is so friendly and social, everyone talks to everyone, it's so much better than my old town. At my old town, everyone only hung out with the people they had known since kindergarden and it was so boring because it's like your hanging out with the same people over and over and over again. But this town, everyone here is partying and having fun, it's awesome."

Next thing you know, they'd become exactly what I had said the people in this town are like. I have even done this when they were being kind of snooty and unsocial or had that vibe of "we're too good to talk to you" attitude.

Of course later, I stopped doing that. Instead of just kind of #1 didn't focus on it or worry about it, and #2 just kind of got more comfortable with myself and the people around me. I think the real reason now that people are like that, is because they are scared to talk to strangers. They've gone to school and hung out with the same people for so long that they have no idea how to interact with someone new. So when I got more comfortable with myself and stopped caring so much about looking cool or gaining their approval or whatever, and also became more comfortable with them and in stopped judging them and having thoughts like o these people are so snooty then they just kind of started talking to me more and became more comfortable with being around me.

It was an interesting phenomenon.