[Mzpretty561]

Originally Posted by tallrick

y'all come back, ya hear? that's something you don't hear or see anymore in south Florida. I remember when even Winn Dixie had that over their exits, but no one does that anymore. I guess that all the northeasterners and immigrants from Latin America changed that idea. Where does the "southern hospitality" cut off to become the "new urbanism"?

OK! LOL

[Chrome Microphone]

"I guess that all the northeasterners and immigrants from Latin America changed that idea."


^^^Yup, unfortunately so.

[cmsvmom]

I grew up in South Dade. I got married and lived most of my adult life in NJ. This I do not recommend.

I find now that I came back to FL, if I had moved to South Dade, I would have been moving into the same things I wanted to leave behind me and forget in NJ - the crowding, congestion, rudeness, pushiness. So I have moved to the panhandle. IMO, better beach, and reminds me of south dade when I was a kid.

I miss the Cuban influence, it was a part of my growing up. As a teenager, I became quite adept at Miami Spanglish, and there is no other place in the world where this particular type of Spanglish is spoken. I do miss that, and I miss the energy of Miami. But at this point in my life, I just cannot live there, and the living here is better.

[Chrome Microphone]

Originally Posted by cmsvmom

I grew up in South Dade. I got married and lived most of my adult life in NJ. This I do not recommend.

I find now that I came back to FL, if I had moved to South Dade, I would have been moving into the same things I wanted to leave behind me and forget in NJ - the crowding, congestion, rudeness, pushiness. So I have moved to the panhandle. IMO, better beach, and reminds me of south dade when I was a kid.

I miss the Cuban influence, it was a part of my growing up. As a teenager, I became quite adept at Miami Spanglish, and there is no other place in the world where this particular type of Spanglish is spoken. I do miss that, and I miss the energy of Miami. But at this point in my life, I just cannot live there, and the living here is better.

People in Miami are rude and pushy? I know it's been mentioned on here a bunch, but I am told a lot of the times that people in Miami are friendly. Good move on moving back to America, and enjoy the panhandle, it's a small peice of Old Florida.

[floridathesouth]

florida in one of the original southern dixie states know your history come to the swamps or rural areas not downtown in a city and its southern from bottom of polk county on up here is a lis of counties here
LAKE COUNTY, SUMTER COUNTY, CITRUS COUNTY, MARION COUNTY ,DIXIE COUNTY , LEVI COUNTY

Its mostly north and central florida thats southern and ive been here for 40 years][/i]

[mhoward48]

Originally Posted by funy

Southern Hospitality is dead. I've helped kill any vestiges that were left of it, and didn't realize it until today.

I was born in Gainesville and used to be the sweetest li'l southern girl you could ever know. I'd smile and say, "Hug my neck and give me some sugar!" every time I saw you. But something has changed, gradually growing a malcontented feeling in my soul, turning me into a real b*tch that can't even say "thank you" when you hold the door open for me.

I'm weary of being an oddity in my own home. I'm so sick of the "So where are you from? - There aren't many natives left" conversation that my answer is now a perfunctory, "I don't discuss that topic any more". My home has lost its cultural identity, any sense of community, all traditional social customs that bind us into a real society. I don't know my neighbors, and I don't care to. They buy low, constantly complain, sell high, then trot off to grub for more green in SC. I don't know anyone who truly LIVES here any more.

Today I lost it. My mother asked a couple in our tiny town, "I don't recognize you good folks! You just move here?" He rudely answered while tossing a cup on the sidewalk, "We're visiting from NJ just like everyone else around here." Matching his rudeness, I informed him of how many people actually ARE from here, show some respect and pick up your damned trash, which is so not my style...

I've lost my personal identity. I'm detached from my Southern heritage, the only heritage I know. Southern Hospitality is gone, because Southerners are gone.

I am normally a pretty nice person. Had someone spoke to my mom like that, I would of done pretty much the same thing as you. Good for you. Sad to say that huh. I tend to tune out News and a lot of TV these days. so much tend to incite anger in me. I think a lot of people are doing that more.

[psouth]

No hospitality here. Much less southern. It is every man and woman for themselves. Just hold onto your wallets and keep yourself strapped in until the roller coaster comes to a full stop.

[MegDrew]

Originally Posted by Madaly

I am from Massachusetts and I swear you will have to include New England as their own little country because we are like nobody else. lol

Funny you mention New England. I find the mentality there to be quite similar to that of the South (excepting political leanings, but that doesn't seem to be what this post is about). I love it up there -- the natural beauty, the water, and a Northern version of Southern hospitality, if that makes sense. Too bad it gets soooooo cold!

[bcarril]

Maybe in Northern or Central Florida, but South Florida is actually it's own country it's called Cubamerica the Cubans took it over in 1959 but then succeeded from Cuba, they wanted to name it New Cuba but the Jews complained so they named it Cubamerica

sources: a proud Cubamerican citizen

[Trusses]

Originally Posted by cmsvmom

I grew up in South Dade. I got married and lived most of my adult life in NJ. This I do not recommend.

I find now that I came back to FL, if I had moved to South Dade, I would have been moving into the same things I wanted to leave behind me and forget in NJ - the crowding, congestion, rudeness, pushiness. So I have moved to the panhandle. IMO, better beach, and reminds me of south dade when I was a kid.

I miss the Cuban influence, it was a part of my growing up. As a teenager, I became quite adept at Miami Spanglish, and there is no other place in the world where this particular type of Spanglish is spoken. I do miss that, and I miss the energy of Miami. But at this point in my life, I just cannot live there, and the living here is better.

Almost as if there's a correlation between the two.