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I voted "Other". Transplants are a necessary step for a city to grow and evolve. They don't need to assimilate 100% but they do need to make an effort and try to blend in a little bit while at the same time offer something new and better, giving a city a more unique blend of flavors.
Transplants are fine as long as they trickle in slowly enough to assimilate, they problem is when too many flood an area at one time. Unfortunately many of them get to their new homes and then start complaining about the food, the accents, the locals being "slow", the laws, etc.
I notice many transplants also get offended when the locals don't agree with their ways from "back home". Just remember, you weren't asked to move to the new place, you made that decision on your own.
Transplants are fine as long as they trickle in slowly enough to assimilate, they problem is when too many flood an area at one time. Unfortunately many of them get to their new homes and then start complaining about the food, the accents, the locals being "slow", the laws, etc.
I notice many transplants also get offended when the locals don't agree with their ways from "back home". Just remember, you weren't asked to move to the new place, you made that decision on your own.
I in general like humans no matter where they came from and look like. Nor could I care. My best friend ever was a transplant himself. However, I do care if you are a obnoxious moron, whether you're a local or a transplant. Not all transplants are the same, so you can't give a blanket statement about them all.
Transplants are fine as long as they trickle in slowly enough to assimilate, they problem is when too many flood an area at one time. Unfortunately many of them get to their new homes and then start complaining about the food, the accents, the locals being "slow", the laws, etc.
I notice many transplants also get offended when the locals don't agree with their ways from "back home". Just remember, you weren't asked to move to the new place, you made that decision on your own.
I agree.
Most of the transplants to the Huntsville, AL area do not fit that mold, but the ones that do tend to give the good transplants a bad name. You just have to forget about the jerky ones and not let that cloud your opinion.
However, my parents left west Georgia because they couldn't handle the influx of newcomers. Their home areas are becoming suburbs of metro Atlanta and they could no longer afford to live there. It was them with the "weird" accent now. Not only that, "home" was not home anymore.
Moving around from city to city (or small town to city, or increasingly city to small town) or state to state is the American way; it's part of our shared American history. I have no problem with "transplants." Then again, I've moved a lot myself. Places evolve. I'm more concerned about people who dig their heels in and don't want to address the reality of change, whether good or bad. I think it's healthy for communities to have a blend of people who have been around long enough to have seen how a neighborhood or city evolved and who understand its historical and cultural context, but also think it's healthy to have new people coming in with fresh perspectives.
I do think that in some place, though, people who are new to town are invested enough in being part of the community; I don't think that's a "transplant" specific problem, though. (And for what it's worth, one study showed that transplants were actually more likely to be involved in the community than people who were from a place originally.)
(And for what it's worth, one study showed that transplants were actually more likely to be involved in the community than people who were from a place originally.)
I've actually noticed this as well. You have to think in many cases, a transplant is moving there because they WANT to be there, they want to contribute and soak up all the history. Now, I am sure many locals do the same thing, but I have run into far too many locals in cities who didn't know their own city history, had not been to key places, and generally didn't recognize anything else in the U.S. or why their own city was important. I certainly won't act like several cities are full with creativity, intellectual flair and want to make the place better... far from it. I have been in contact with plenty of close minded locals and some of them are pretty crappy people. Several of the volunteer groups I have been involved with were predominantly comprised of transplants.
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