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I'm sure the South is wonderful to you, just like the North is wonderful to me. So we'll stay where we are and we are both happy.
I need no lessons on weather disasters, but thank you. My point was that they are much more likely to happen in the Southeast. Whether you, or anyone else, agrees with that or not is your prerogative. Yes, your weather is milder in temperature, however, some of us very much enjoy our four seasons. Snow is a beautiful thing and I love seeing it every year.
Let me know the criteria of which you speak, pertaining to intelligence. There is no way that can be accurately measured, especially in entire regions of a country, but let me know what you have found. As far as knowing what's going on in the world, and possessing modern, forward thinking, I assure you the North and West are ahead of the South.
What do you feel quality of life means? Of course it is not all about jobs, but when bragging about the South a common factor is supposed availability of jobs there versus up North. I would like to know what about the South you feel brings you quality. It's not an argument; it is curiosity.
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Originally Posted by City Fanatic
The South is a wonderful region. I could care less whether you dislike it or not. However, let's put things in perspective.
Sure, there are more tornadoes in the South than the northeast, but we have less than the Great Plains. Tornadoes are possible whereever two highly different air masses (cold with warm) collide. Since the Gulf of Mexico sucks warm, gulf air and moisture northward, and since it collides with the rapidly advancing cold interior continental air in the fall and the rapidly receding cold continental air in the spring, it creates a lot of vertical uplift and rotation. Hence, tornadoes.
Hurricanes are only an issue if you live in Florida, or within an hour of the Alantic and Gulf Coasts. The Georgia and North Florida coast is rarely hit, given the Atlantic coast's westward bend and the gulf stream current bypassing much of the area.
Overall, the South has milder weather, while still having a cold season. The Piedmont and Appalachian areas of the South have more balanced seasons than most of the north.
"You're intelligent"? Based on what? I have data that will show that the southern states outperform northern states in certain criteria. There are demographic reasons that can be used to account for much of the difference. According to each demographic variable, it's fairly close.
I don't base the quality of life in the South on jobs.
Well I think the south can match up well with northeast in terms of amount of cities,
Houston 2.2million
San Antonio (IF YOU INCLUDE IT IN THE SOUTH) 1.3million
Dallas 1.2million
Jacksonville, FL 800,000
Austin (IF YOU INCLUDE IT IN THE SOUTH) 750,000
Fort Worth 681,000
Memphis 674,000
Charlotte 671,000
Nashville 590,000
No Atlanta, New Orleans, Tampa, Orlando, and Miami?
What is arrogance is when I see people having t-shirts of "Don't mess with Texas" that is what is arrogance is lol. What does Texas has that is all that? Nothing. Cowboys, farms, Cows, etc... please Texas is not all that.
I agree. The things that those texans say is really starting to tick me off
Sort of like those tshirts they wear all the time "everything is bigger in texas"
Now, that is arrogance
True, but that's off thread stuff. Nobody in this thread said anything about Texas superiority. BOTH New Yorkers AND Texas are arrogant. "The City so Nice they named it Twice", that sounds arrogant. What about the "I Love NY" shirts, there not much different then the "don't mess with texas" ones. So it goes BOTH ways.
True, but that's off thread stuff. Nobody in this thread said anything about Texas superiority. BOTH New Yorkers AND Texas are arrogant. "The City so Nice they named it Twice", that sounds arrogant. What about the "I Love NY" shirts, there not much different then the "don't mess with texas" ones. So it goes BOTH ways.
Let's not even go there, because people love NY. That is why everyday I see millions and millions of tourist in NYC. I also have seen that the south copied our style. I have seen people wearing I love ATL shirt as style now that NYC created.
True, but that's off thread stuff. Nobody in this thread said anything about Texas superiority. BOTH New Yorkers AND Texas are arrogant. "The City so Nice they named it Twice", that sounds arrogant. What about the "I Love NY" shirts, there not much different then the "don't mess with texas" ones. So it goes BOTH ways.
The thread was not about NYers being arrogant either.
But, I guess that my arrogance came through so much to everyone else when I told them that Raleigh, Birmingham and Nashville are more like towns than cities.
You are right it does go both ways. According to others on this site, it's only the NYers that are arrogant.
And what is so funny about this claim is that I have NEVER lived in NYC. So much for their assumptions
I live in and love NYC, but the NYC boosters are among the worst and most numerous in this forum. Not every description of the city requires a superlative.
The thread was not about NYers being arrogant either.
But, I guess that my arrogance came through so much to everyone else when I told them that Raleigh, Birmingham and Nashville are more like towns than cities.
You are right it does go both ways. According to others on this site, it's only the NYers that are arrogant.
And what is so funny about this claim is that I have NEVER lived in NYC. So much for their assumptions
I agree, that's what I said in my original post, on C-D, BOTH the south and the north are overrated.
Let's not even go there, because people love NY. That is why everyday I see millions and millions of tourist in NYC. I also have seen that the south copied our style. I have seen people wearing I love ATL shirt as style now that NYC created.
I never said people dont go to NY, that has nothing to do with what I said, im sure people flood NYC everyday, I said that NY'ers AND Texans are BOTH arrogant, what does that have to do with millions of people going to NYC? And what does that have to do with the north NOT being just as overrated as the south. Millions of people go to Orlando each year, even more then NYC(not a diss, just fact), but im sure MANY, MANY, MANY of you think Orlando is overrated, and it MIGHT be overrated. And NY might also be overrated, key word MIGHT.
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