Why is the south "slow" compared to North? (bankrupt, college)

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by johnatl

During his childhood the family also lived briefly in California.

In Compton (aka CPT aka Comptontown) to be exact.

Of course, that was a few years prior to it becoming da hood!

[Georgiafrog]

This is a funny thread. I went on a hike this morning to a waterfall 15 minutes from my house. I'm replying to this while lying in my front porch hammock with a sweet tea nearby. After four, my sweet tea will turn into an I.P.A. My Australian Shepherd is snoring on the porch beside me. Whoever said that fast paced, northern, big city, anthill mentality was an envious quality?

[cpg35223]

I think the term "patient" is a much more apt description than "slow." Just because someone is doing something faster doesn't mean they're doing it better.

[theS5]

Very Andy Griffinish but IMHO boring. I am not one to just lay around, I get too antsy.

Originally Posted by Georgiafrog

This is a funny thread. I went on a hike this morning to a waterfall 15 minutes from my house. I'm replying to this while lying in my front porch hammock with a sweet tea nearby. After four, my sweet tea will turn into an I.P.A. My Australian Shepherd is snoring on the porch beside me. Whoever said that fast paced, northern, big city, anthill mentality was an envious quality?

[back2dc]

so wait. you complain about the "mindset" of north=fast and south=slow but then go and use the mason-dixon line (an arbitrary line from two centuries ago) as a marker for the north/south divide today?

use some modern standards at least. maryland was a catholic colony unlike the south which are today fundamentally baptist.

maryland votes democrat
maryland is 3 hours from nyc geographically
maryland is 30 miles from the beginning of the new jersey turnpike
maryland has a rather minor 2 - line metro system similar to marta, but it also has a metropolitan commuter train system known as marc.

add up these qualities and include the unavoidable fact that maryland lies on the "NORTHEASTERN" amtrak and busline corridor between DC/NY/Boston and Maryland is in modern history a Northern state.

Originally Posted by City Fanatic

Baltimore is SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon line.

Baltimore DOESN'T have the annoying northern accents. In most people, it's a neutral accent.

Baltimore is part of Maryland, which is classified as a Southern state according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and of which was recognized as a southern state throughout much of its history.

Only because Baltimore and much of Maryland have had a lot of northerners moving from nearby states to the north would anyone classify it as northern. The characteristics are not northern. It's somewhere in the middle.

It shares what characteristics with Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh is not this massive place, and neither is Baltimore. Baltimore is even more dense than Pittsburgh. If it's based on density, then Charleston and New Orleans fit the bill, and no one calls them northern cities.

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by Georgiafrog

This is a funny thread. I went on a hike this morning to a waterfall 15 minutes from my house. I'm replying to this while lying in my front porch hammock with a sweet tea nearby. After four, my sweet tea will turn into an I.P.A. My Australian Shepherd is snoring on the porch beside me. Whoever said that fast paced, northern, big city, anthill mentality was an envious quality?

That sounds wonderful to me! I have an aussie shepherd too, sweet tea as well, just need the hammock and the waterfall!

[wavehunter007]

This is issue is really about URBAN vs RURAL life.

I just got back from Atlanta and Charlotte I can tell you an urban area is an urban area…North OR South. I’m back home now in my tiny Rhode Island beach town of 5600 people, and glad to be out of the city. Each morning I get up, tend my garden, walk the beach, go into town where people talk and move slow, sun myself on my deck…and don’t miss the crazy people, rush-rush, crime, grime, and competitive people of Atlanta, Georgia. You can keep your Southern cities just as much as you’re Northern and Western cities...they are all the same.

Instead, each morning I get up to the Rhode Island sun and the calm Atlantic and see this….

[missymomof3]

How beautiful!

[johnatl]

That is a beautiful pic, wavehunter007. Sounds like you have a VERY nice set up in RI. Enjoy!

[Jdawg8181]

The south is poor.