Blue Ridge, GA - Progressive? (Atlanta, Decatur: hotels, live in, shop)

[LovinDecatur]

Originally Posted by neil0311

Wow...and I thought movies like Deliverance were just Hollywood folklore.

...and writing off N GA residents as "Deliverance" miscreants is just reinforcing their feelings about outsiders.

[neil0311]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

...and writing off N GA residents as "Deliverance" miscreants is just reinforcing their feelings about outsiders.

Nope...I'm amazed frankly at the comments and seeming hate for outsiders. I'm just commenting on the poster's own words. Deliverance is what came to mind. Sorry if the analogy offends.

I understand that people don't like change, and nobody should move somewhere hell bent on changing things for the sake of change or to make it like where they came from, but I've been up there and that doesn't appear to be the case at all. Passing laws to let people drink in a restaurant on Sunday doesn't destroy anyone's way of life.

These folks who think that they own these towns and want them to remain like Mayberry was in the 1950s need to remember that the world is a big place, and others have the right to live where they want and don't need their permission. Personally, I wouldn't live in a rural area, but those who have decided to do so have every right to do so without meeting with the "welcoming committee."

[LovinDecatur]

Originally Posted by neil0311

Nope...I'm amazed frankly at the comments and seeming hate for outsiders. I'm just commenting on the poster's own words. Deliverance is what came to mind. Sorry if the analogy offends.

I understand that people don't like change, and nobody should move somewhere hell bent on changing things for the sake of change or to make it like where they came from, but I've been up there and that doesn't appear to be the case at all. Passing laws to let people drink in a restaurant on Sunday doesn't destroy anyone's way of life.

These folks who think that they own these towns and want them to remain like Mayberry was in the 1950s need to remember that the world is a big place, and others have the right to live where they want and don't need their permission. Personally, I wouldn't live in a rural area, but those who have decided to do so have every right to do so without meeting with the "welcoming committee."

First of all, to be 'amazed by the hatred' vis a vis the negative comments of two local posters seems a bit hyperbolic. I don't think they were elected to proxy for the feelings of the entire native population of north GA, anyway. From what I have observed IRL, the natives seem to be handling the influx pretty well. They just don't feel obliged to change their ways or relinquish their long-standing community ties and values as a result. Nor should they, just as you say the newcomers shouldn't feel an obligation to them.

[neil0311]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

First of all, to be 'amazed by the hatred' vis a vis the negative comments of two local posters seems a bit hyperbolic.

Point taken.

[jetgraphics]

Blue Ridge gets my vote for "best place" to survive after the SHTF. TVA hydro power, near to a railroad right of way, far enough from 'Lanta, and tucked in the foothills.

[MCFF26]

my apologies for the somewhat over-the-top rant about people moving to the mountains, but all i can say is you may never understand what it is like watching your small town that you have grown up in (and grown to love) your entire life change right before your eyes (some for better, some for worse)

by nature, humans are not always welcome to change. if your place of raising was drastically changing, i'd say you would be a little more than irked by those moving in and doing the changing

and i should clarify my statement about "outsiders." its not the "outsiders" migration to the country that i atest, its the fact that many of them expect to find all the modern convienences of a larger urban/suburban area and lets face it thats just not gonna happen

[gaduchman]

Originally Posted by jetgraphics

Blue Ridge gets my vote for "best place" to survive after the SHTF. TVA hydro power, near to a railroad right of way, far enough from 'Lanta, and tucked in the foothills.

Naw, you want Cleveland, TN

[cityrover]

Originally Posted by MCFF26

my apologies for the somewhat over-the-top rant about people moving to the mountains, but all i can say is you may never understand what it is like watching your small town that you have grown up in (and grown to love) your entire life change right before your eyes (some for better, some for worse)

by nature, humans are not always welcome to change. if your place of raising was drastically changing, i'd say you would be a little more than irked by those moving in and doing the changing

and i should clarify my statement about "outsiders." its not the "outsiders" migration to the country that i atest, its the fact that many of them expect to find all the modern convienences of a larger urban/suburban area and lets face it thats just not gonna happen

But it is happening. They come and development follows. N GA has completely changed in the past 5 years.

However the change that you bring up is typically facilitated by your local government chasing tax money. They allow it to happen, they zone it. If anything, blame should be forwarded to the locals in charge, not to the people moving.

On another note, it has been said before but most of the animousity towards transplants comes from them coming to a place and wanting to make it like the place they just left. Irony is they claim they came here because it was different, then they proceed to change it into the madhouse they just left (their words).

There is a lot of the old mindset that hey im in ga, ima make me all these deliverance rednecks do what i want right naw because im coming from X and Y and we are done taught how things should be done up in X and Y.

People need to drop this attitude and reevaluate their situation then. You just might be amazed how nice it is, just the way it is.

[antiquesmountainapache]

Listen to MCFF26 (a few posts earlier). I lived in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee for 20 years before coming back to metro Atlanta. Why people want to move to an area and change it is beyond me.

[gaduchman]

Originally Posted by antiquesmountainapache

Listen to MCFF26 (a few posts earlier). I lived in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee for 20 years before coming back to metro Atlanta. Why people want to move to an area and change it is beyond me.

It's just human nature to try to change things. Fortunately, it doesn't always work.