Hey all New Yorkers I miss NY, moved south feel like I made a BIG mistake! (Alabama: 2010, living)

[doryy]

I have lived in the south (western NC) for 20 years now...My husband is being relocated by his company to Ithaca and we made a scouting trip up there a few weeks ago...I can not wait to move! What a breath of fresh air! I can not wait to get away from the small town mentality and the confederate flag of hate. I LOVE upstate NY and can't wait to get there! I love NC too, it will always be home...but for better or worse, a lot of the south is stuck in the past so I understand where you are coming from with your remarks. Ithaca is just like western NC but without the mountains and the arcaic attitudes towards change, growth and acceptance of other races and cultures. I am counting the days!

[smalltownusa]

Originally Posted by doryy

I have lived in the south (western NC) for 20 years now...My husband is being relocated by his company to Ithaca and we made a scouting trip up there a few weeks ago...I can not wait to move! What a breath of fresh air! I can not wait to get away from the small town mentality and the confederate flag of hate. I LOVE upstate NY and can't wait to get there! I love NC too, it will always be home...but for better or worse, a lot of the south is stuck in the past so I understand where you are coming from with your remarks. Ithaca is just like western NC but without the mountains and the arcaic attitudes towards change, growth and acceptance of other races and cultures. I am counting the days!

Welcome ...

[NY62]

Originally Posted by tallylady46

LOL..don't you mean inbreeding? But you have to admit, some rural areas of upstate can be scary too. I wonder if inbreeding goes on in some of isolated hamlets.....

OOOps yea .LOL Yea upstate is scary too. but they dont hate you up there because your from new york. I have been places in the south where I swear you could hear that damn banjo playing.LOL Why do they have those heads with the eyes so close together? What about the one good tooth thing I dont get it. I guess if your a dentist down there you go broke because no one comes to see you. How about the trailer homes with the brand new pickup truck and bass boat on the side? there truck and boat costs more than the house. P.S. squeal like a pig, this ones got a perty mouth pa. can anyone name the movie?

[XNYgirl]

Originally Posted by missNY

See, so it happens in Charlotte to? It's everywhere and won't really get much better. We are in Zebulon NC. I never treated newcomers to my area in NY the way some, not all treat you here. Are you back north now??

I told my husband today that I'm catching a ride with the next car I see with NY license plates. I don't care where in NY they are going, but if I see a Bills Sticker or Sabers, I know I'm coming home. Charlotte is a huge Yankee melting pot. Where is Zebulon?

[smalltownusa]

Originally Posted by NY62

OOOps yea .LOL Yea upstate is scary too. but they dont hate you up there because your from new york. I have been places in the south where I swear you could hear that damn banjo playing.LOL Why do they have those heads with the eyes so close together? What about the one good tooth thing I dont get it. I guess if your a dentist down there you go broke because no one comes to see you. How about the trailer homes with the brand new pickup truck and bass boat on the side? there truck and boat costs more than the house. P.S. squeal like a pig, this ones got a perty mouth pa. can anyone name the movie?

Upstate is scary? You'll start an interstae battle with that comment LOL....

As for the movie, Deliverance? That was one creepy hillbilly movie. Put a whole new meaning on the term "inbred"

[NY62]

Originally Posted by smalltownusa

Upstate is scary? You'll start an interstae battle with that comment LOL....

As for the movie, Deliverance? That was one creepy hillbilly movie. Put a whole new meaning on the term "inbred"

Just kidding I have friends and family up there. And I have been in some out of the way places up there and never felt funny or been treated hostile like in huckleberry land down south." Hey gomer can you check my oil?"

[zobee]

I wouldn't say moving south is my BIGGEST mistake. I'm not sure it was a "mistake" at all -- it's been an interesting learning experience. Of course that could be said of just about any third world nation, as well.



Seriously, there are some good things about the south. Grits for example. I like grits. Sweet tea. Magnolia blossoms. Antebellum architecture. Grits ... oh wait, I said that.

Uhm... yep, that's about it.

I have also run into the "we hate Yankee" mentality, and in all honesty, I did move here with a wide open mind. While I admit to being less than enthusiastic about the South -- that has been a byproduct of being ostracized for the past ten years, by virtue of my NY roots.

What I find most interesting about this thread:

Why are people from the southern state forums popping in to the NY forum to begin with, just to dog northern transplants who are having a hard time adjusting. Where are all those southern manners we hear so much about?

Isn't it enough that we're made to feel unwelcome in the "real south" -- and perhaps even in the "cyber south?"

If a southerner were to move north and felt like a fish out of water (and I can't see how they wouldn't), and then naturally turned to fellow Southerners for commiseration, I doubt the NY forumers would follow them to their state boards and tell them if they didn't like it, they should just go home and take all their rebel friends with them.

And they say NYers are rude. Sheesh!

[BigHouse9]

Originally Posted by zobee

I wouldn't say moving south is my BIGGEST mistake. I'm not sure it was a "mistake" at all -- it's been an interesting learning experience. Of course that could be said of just about any third world nation, as well.



Seriously, there are some good things about the south. Grits for example. I like grits. Sweet tea. Magnolia blossoms. Antebellum architecture. Grits ... oh wait, I said that.

Uhm... yep, that's about it.

I have also run into the "we hate Yankee" mentality, and in all honesty, I did move here with a wide open mind. While I admit to being less than enthusiastic about the South -- that has been a byproduct of being ostracized for the past ten years, by virtue of my NY roots.

What I find most interesting about this thread:

Why are people from the southern state forums popping in to the NY forum to begin with, just to dog northern transplants who are having a hard time adjusting. Where are all those southern manners we hear so much about?

Isn't it enough that we're made to feel unwelcome in the "real south" -- and perhaps even in the "cyber south?"

If a southerner were to move north and felt like a fish out of water (and I can't see how they wouldn't), and then naturally turned to fellow Southerners for commiseration, I doubt the NY forumers would follow them to their state boards and tell them if they didn't like it, they should just go home and take all their rebel friends with them.

And they say NYers are rude. Sheesh!

I too have run into the "we hate Yankees" mentality. The biggest fallacy going is that the South is friendly and the North is not. I grew up in CT and found the people there to be absolutely wonderful.

Would I say that moving to the South was a mistake"? ABSOLUTELY!!! There is kind of a soul-less existence here of strips malls, traffic, and attitude. I for one cannot wait to move back North.

[sue64]

I agree with missNY - thats exactly how I have felt since the day I moved down to this backwards state. I am in the process of moving back up north as fast as I got down here - actually faster

[njguy]

Originally Posted by sue64

I agree with missNY - thats exactly how I have felt since the day I moved down to this backwards state. I am in the process of moving back up north as fast as I got down here - actually faster

When You do the Northeastern US will have gained and welcomed back a family member.

There's NO place like the Northeastern/New England areas of the USA.