WHat city in the south is influenced by the North (university, living in)
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I have a question. IF any of you notherners had to move down south but you still wanted to have some sordof relatable atmosphere to the North what city what you move to for that Experience thats including transportation shopping dining. more fashionable people etc
the citys are DAllas CHarlotte New orleans Atlanta and Houston and Miami
I peronally just want to know for myself because there is a big debate over in the city vs city forum about this so i want to get you guys opinion, I personally fell Atlanta is most Northern influenced
I was born and raised in Boston and have been living in New York for 35 years. New Orleans... even after what has happened to it... is the only city in the South i think i could live in. Atlanta would be second. I couldn't live in any of the others under any circumstance.
I would probably choose Charlotte followed closely by Atlanta. Atlanta probably has more of the "city things" you mentioned but Charlotte seems nicer IMHO.
The two Texas cities follow but to tell the truth I do not know much about them. It would be unfair to pick one over the other at this point for me. Dallas of course has a cool football team!
While I could live in Miami or any other Florida city - its more a vacation area to me. Lots of New Yorkers disagree!
The one place I am not interested in is New Orleans, even before the hurricane. I realize I am in the minority here lol - most people seem to love the place.
Maybe Houston, or Dallas because of the cost of living. Atlanta I do not like. New Orleans He!! No. Once you leave the tourist area there is an element of ignorance that is downright terrible.
I know I'm going against the grain here, but I still maintain that DC is a Southern City- but being so close to the North, it does have both North and South influences.
Northern Virginia , which surrounds DC, was once very much part of the Old South- and it had many plantations. DC was a Southern-Country town also during the 1950s, and Jimmy Dean and Patsy Cline sang there when Country Music was Southern.
I know I'm going against the grain here, but I still maintain that DC is a Southern City- but being so close to the North, it does have both North and South influences.
Northern Virginia , which surrounds DC, was once very much part of the Old South- and it had many plantations. DC was a Southern-Country town also during the 1950s, and Jimmy Dean and Patsy Cline sang there when Country Music was Southern.
That may have been then, but it is not today. Northern Virginia and Washington D.C. do not feel Southern in any way, shape, or form today. Washington, D.C. does not have the culture of Richmond, Virginia, nor are there any Southern speech patterns around it. Its climate is very unlike a Southern city as well..it experiences four distinct seasons and is perfectly capable of getting cold winters with lots of snow. It has the pace, feel, and culture of a Northeastern city today. Southern-country...please. Country music. Just because country music is prevalent in an area doesn't have anything to do with it being the South. If the current day D.C. is southern, than so are Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. It's true, you never admit when you're beaten.
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