Yes, I'd have to say that it runs pretty much the same as far as I can tell. There's a few more exotic menu items here though--oh, well, at least to me anyways. I don't know about the world you've come from, almost everyone I've met here is from Japan and finds it perfectly normal.

It might have just been that Route 29 was filled with so many mishaps for me, but the distance between Cherrygrove and Violet is fairly well attended to. There are bug Pokemon though, and they are quite large.