Do Charlotte Natives generally dislike Northerners? (Huntersville, Welcome: mobile home, buy, subdivisions)

[XNYgirl]

You make no sense Nacht, how are the majority of the people from NC if they are moving here from NY? IF I stand correct, NY is a bigger State then NC.

You can roll your eyes all you want, just don't forget to pick them up.

[momoftwo418]

I think that it doesn't matter where someone comes from as long as they are willing to be friendly and assimilate to where they are living. When you go south find those manners that hopefully your momma taught you and brush up on them and use them..THE END..lol...I for one LOVED how people in NC look you in the face when you talk to them and everyone we saw and spoke to were very friendly. I look foward to life slowing down and not being one of those people who says well back in NY...well ok that is a lie I will say Well back in NY life was yucky!! lol...

[Eagleheart1]

Do I hear a couple of banjos down the creek??

[resident]

I have never had someone ask me where I was from and actually mean anything by it..I ask ppl that ALL the time b/c we have moved alot and I find it interesting....??? Where do you all find these ppl?

[NCN]

Originally Posted by 3johnsons

that overall people in Charlotte are very friendly to everyone. That being said, the quickest way to put a halt to some of that hospitality is to be rude or disrespectful. For instance, I work with a lady from New Jersey who constantly talks about how her children do anything they can to NOT adopt a southern accent, and we are always hearing about how "back in Jersey, blah blah blah..." Immediately my co-workers start rolling their eyes or reminding her that southern accents are much more pleasant to the ear than "other" accents....

It has always been curious that people come here and comment on our accent. Do they not realize that when they are in North Carolina speaking like people do in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania that they are the ones who have an accent. We just talk like home folks. Accents have always been interesting to me and I try to figure how a person came to talk that way. We have sections in the North Carolina mountains that still speak a lot of words just as Shakespeare spoke them. There is a professor at Queens College who does a wonderful lecture about accents. He is an expert who has been hired by movie makers to help actors get accents right for a particular part in a movie. I recently took a Spanish class and learned that they do not say our vowels the same way we do. The light bulb went off. Northern people use the Spanish punctuation of our English vowels. I have been listening and I am convinced they do. Not all of the Northerners, but most of the ones that think we sound strange. It is probably because they have had so many different nationalities around them and we have mostly had English. So if she is putting down the way we pronounce our words; she is not only rude, she is wrong, wrong, wrong. Maybe she is just jealous because we sound better. At least most of us are not gripping all the time. I was looking at the punctuation discussion of how to say Monroe in one of these postings. They were saying that we say Mun. Most of us say Mon like Monday. When I first came to Charlotte I had trouble with two words: Derita--I pronounced it like Merita bread. Lancaster is the other word. I used to say Lan-caster. Luckily I moved next door to a former Miss Lancaster and she very politely told me how they say it--after I noticed that she said it differently. In South Carolina the "N" is silent. I have always been taught that you should pronounce towns, cities, and countries as the natives do. So now I say La-caster. I love this website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[UpeoWaMacho]

Originally Posted by clt_gator

So true.
But I've grown to loathe many of these folks, as they sometimes tend to adopt the "I liked Charlotte better in 1965" mantra and oppose any sort of development.

Ah yes, the NE penchant for development and "progressiveness". There's a fun stereotype to deal with. Change is great and all, but if anyone wants a taste of "home" with certain things like particular goods and services, they'll get everything else goes with them--the high taxes, governmental corruption, unions and their corruption and waste, etc..

I'm not from the NC area, but I moved away from the north to get away from said things. If one is going to move away from what they know, you'd think they'd not want it to be exactly the same as what they left--otherwise, why leave?

You won't get massive developement and "progress" without turning the area you've moved into, into what you left behind, for whatever reason. I came from Wisconsin, and I wanted to get away from the taxes, blatant socialism, the inability to protect oneself or one's family, etc. I don't want all the services that were up there because I don't want to be paying $4800 in taxes annually for a $200K house. And that's what demanding servcies does. It has to be paid for somehow.

And the NE anti-gun mentality--don't even get me started. It's amazing how many folks can be so scared of inanimate objects....

So, if everyone from the NE is coming here, looking to turn it into a little NE, they'll just turn it into another NE--definitely not something I want, and I'd think not something those who either grew up here, or flocked here from other parts of the south would want either.

For anyone with misconceptions about the south, check out the book, Politically Incorrect Guide to the South, and see if that opens some eyes. It covers (and debunks) a lot of stuff the north has been pumping into classrooms for decades.

As for not being able to find a native Charlotean--I live right next door to some. Great folks, couldn't wish for better neighbors.

When dealing with folks, it comes down to respect, not accents. If you respect the person you're talking to, there's a real good chance they'll respect you back, regardless what each other sounds like. I have the typical, news-caster, midwest accent, with the occasionally nasally Wiscahhhnsin tossed in. I have yet to find anyone that treated me differently, or to that matter disrespected me, due to that. If you don't come across as superior, you'll get a lot farther. Tossing out words like progress and development will not get anyone anywhere.

[shannon70]

Originally Posted by Jake Ryan

You'll be hard pressed to find actual "Charlotte Natives" in Charlotte. Most people here are from other places it seems. I haven't run into many southerners who absolutely dislike Notherners. They may have problems with the comments like "Well, in NY we did it this way". This has led to the "We don't care how you did it up north" bumper sticker!!!

So where do you draw the line between upsetting the status quo and making a constructive suggestion for improvement? A good example: I went to DMV to get my new driver's license, which I had to have to register my car. I can't do both things at the same place, and they are only open Mon-
Fri 8-5. Some people in there had waited for hours the previous day, but had to come back on this particular day because DMV closed on them. You can't get anything done at DMV without missing work. Why doesn't the business community holler over lost production? What's wrong with saying to state government that other places offer services with more convenience and efficiency, and I think you should too? In my previous state of residence, many DMV locations were open until 7 and also on Saturdays. You could obtain any DMV service from any DMV location. AND IT WAS SO MUCH CHEAPER!

[SouthrnMama]

Originally Posted by Jake Ryan

You'll be hard pressed to find actual "Charlotte Natives" in Charlotte. Most people here are from other places it seems. I haven't run into many southerners who absolutely dislike Notherners. They may have problems with the comments like "Well, in NY we did it this way". This has led to the "We don't care how you did it up north" bumper sticker!!!

I havn't seen this bumper sticker, but it would make me laugh to see one. I am on here all the time comparing NC to MD. perhaps I should stop

[UpeoWaMacho]

Originally Posted by shannon70

So where do you draw the line between upsetting the status quo and making a constructive suggestion for improvement? A good example: I went to DMV to get my new driver's license, which I had to have to register my car. I can't do both things at the same place, and they are only open Mon-Fri 8-5. Some people in there had waited for hours the previous day, but had to come back on this particular day because DMV closed on them. You can't get anything done at DMV without missing work. Why doesn't the business community holler over lost production? What's wrong with saying to state government that other places offer services with more convenience and efficiency, and I think you should too? In my previous state of residence, many DMV locations were open until 7 and also on Saturdays. You could obtain any DMV service from any DMV location. AND IT WAS SO MUCH CHEAPER!

Improvements cost money. In the end, any improvement will take money from somewhere. In this case, NC is doing it right, and charging those that use the roads in some fashion (drivers with their own vehicles, or those that would drive themselves), as opposed to cranking up property taxes on everyone or sales taxes or whatever. Now residents of Mecklenburg County are kind of getting the shaft for the extra costs, as many who work here come from neighboring counties or SC. An argument could be made against how NC is doing it, by charging specific amount according to the value of the vehicle--I'd think we'd want the same fee for the same use.

I get charged for the roads I use, via the mechanism I use to take advantage of the roads--my licensing. It's not actually cheaper where you came from--it just came from somewhere else.

So, if you want to end up spending more, and eventually spending as much as where you came from (in a global sense, not specific to the DOT), then go ahead and try to get your improvements implemented.

Note, regardless the state, government has never been, nor will it ever be--given its current size--efficient. So just trying to speed things up is generally an exercise in futility. It's throwing money into a hole.

Most businesses in the area accept the loss of productivity by implementing benefits of some form (vacation, personal time, absences of under 4 hours not counted, etc.), or just non-paid time off. It's not that large of a hit to the business itself.

[UpeoWaMacho]

Originally Posted by UpeoWaMacho

Ah yes, the NE penchant for development and "progressiveness". There's a fun stereotype to deal with. Change is great and all, but if anyone wants a taste of "home" with certain things like particular goods and services, they'll get everything else goes with them--the high taxes, governmental corruption, unions and their corruption and waste, etc..

I'm not from the NC area, but I moved away from the north to get away from said things. If one is going to move away from what they know, you'd think they'd not want it to be exactly the same as what they left--otherwise, why leave?

You won't get massive developement and "progress" without turning the area you've moved into, into what you left behind, for whatever reason. I came from Wisconsin, and I wanted to get away from the taxes, blatant socialism, the inability to protect oneself or one's family, etc. I don't want all the services that were up there because I don't want to be paying $4800 in taxes annually for a $200K house. And that's what demanding servcies does. It has to be paid for somehow.

And the NE anti-gun mentality--don't even get me started. It's amazing how many folks can be so scared of inanimate objects....

So, if everyone from the NE is coming here, looking to turn it into a little NE, they'll just turn it into another NE--definitely not something I want, and I'd think not something those who either grew up here, or flocked here from other parts of the south would want either.

For anyone with misconceptions about the south, check out the book, Politically Incorrect Guide to the South, and see if that opens some eyes. It covers (and debunks) a lot of stuff the north has been pumping into classrooms for decades.

As for not being able to find a native Charlotean--I live right next door to some. Great folks, couldn't wish for better neighbors.

When dealing with folks, it comes down to respect, not accents. If you respect the person you're talking to, there's a real good chance they'll respect you back, regardless what each other sounds like. I have the typical, news-caster, midwest accent, with the occasionally nasally Wiscahhhnsin tossed in. I have yet to find anyone that treated me differently, or to that matter disrespected me, due to that. If you don't come across as superior, you'll get a lot farther. Tossing out words like progress and development will not get anyone anywhere.

I should say that NE stands for North-Eastern, not Nebraska....