How is life "slower" in NC v. up North? (Charlotte: best cities, transplants)

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by metro.m

Go up north and see for yourself. It's a completely different world.

I disagree. I've been to the Raleigh/Cary area before and it looked more like North Jersey than the South. Horrible traffic and endless suburban sprawl.

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by MLR-4U

I love southern grocery stores and southern hospitality and grocery baggers who kindly offer to haul all of your groceries out , and put them in your car..........cotton pickin' yankees want even bag your groceries and certainly not carry them out to your car...no matter how much money you spend on groceries. If you want to buy butter beans in New Jersey (real ones) you have to ask the store manager to order them for you....and okra (nope, don't have any okra). My mother ordered okra from the grocery store manager in Morristown, New Jersey, and her order came in fresh. She cut them up in small bit size pieces, rolled them in her secret receipt, fried them and served them to her new yankee friends at a cocktail party and momma said they disappeared in a flash.......they loved them! When her friends asked her what it was they were eating....she told them "southern popcorn darlin'. "

Yeah, but try to get good pizza, Italian food, hoagies, and hot wings down south. I think its funny when southerners that I know think that Pizza Hut and Papa John's are good pizza, and that Olive Garden is real Italian food. Every area has its specialties for food.

[SunnyKayak]

food isnt the topic slower way of living is

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by SunnyKayak

food isnt the topic slower way of living is

I didn't bring up food, the post that I was replying to did....

[NCgirl]

Originally Posted by go phillies

I disagree. I've been to the Raleigh/Cary area before and it looked more like North Jersey than the South. Horrible traffic and endless suburban sprawl.

That may be true but the entire state isn't identical to Raleigh/Cary.

How is life "slower" in NC v. up North?


I'm sure I annoy northerners when I'm in a store because I always talk to the cashier. Here's a conversation I had the other day.

As I get ready to pay

Cashier: Ooh that's a cute purse!
Me: Oh! Thank You.
Cashier: I been meaning to get me a new bag but I'm so indecisive...
Me: So am I! I've actually had this for awhile. I wanted to get a new one but I just decided to take this one out of my closet.
Cashier: I love it.. where'd you get it?
Me: It was a gift. I have no idea where it came from.
Cashier: How nice! Maybe I'll find a good one when I go shopping.
Me: Hopefully!

Then I paid for my stuff!

[Asheville Native]

Don't think it can be 'explained' but only experienced. And there are far too many folk that are too hung up in things and impressions to ever experience it.

[superk]

Getting back to the original topic:How is life "slower" in NC v. up North?

Originally Posted by LRoyal10900

I keep seeing people say they wanted a slower pace of life....how exactly is it different here?

It's not, and that's a good thing. Those long winters that keep you indoors a lot and don't allow for much activity outdoors definitely slow down your pace. Sweltering summers without any air conditioning for relief definitely slow down your pace. In NC there's always so much more going on at any one point in time that it becomes difficult sometimes to take it all in. The better weather certainly helps to get yourself up and out and to stay busy for longer periods of time during the year.

[SkinsNoles21]

Originally Posted by NJRose

Another example of how life is slower.

You are in a grocery store and the person in front of you hands the cashier her credit card. The cashier looks at the card and says, "Are you related to the Smiths in Such-and-such county?"
Customer: "Why yes, my grandfather is George Smith."
Cashier: "I go to church with your grandparents."
Customer: "Then you must know my cousin Gracie."
Cashier: "Yes, she just married that boy from Such-and-such, didn't she?"
Customer: "Yes, she did. It was a beautiful wedding."

And so on, and so on, and so on until your head feels like it's about to crack open and spill your brains all over the floor. This is torture to a Yankee, who is used to getting things done as quickly as possible.

I'm from the south and I hate that. I feel as though I might act like a northerner, with regards to how I drive and how I'm always wishing everyone would pick up the pace around me.

[SkinsNoles21]

Cashier: Hello
Me: Hi
Cashier: Your total is $$$$
Me: Ok (slides card)
Cashier: Here is your receipt, have a good day.
Me: Thanks, you too.

[anifani821]

IF slower means waiting on things, such as a contractor who says he will show up "in the next week or so" . . . then, I guess the pace is slower. And if your commute was an hour or longer and in horrific traffic . . . then, maybe that would be different (or maybe not - depends where you live in NC and where you have to commute).

I have lived in other places and never understood the "slower pace of life" comments. I guess if you are a SAHM, maybe life is slower. If you are a careerist . . . you are still juggling the meetings, appointments, deadlines . . . and the cell phone, blackberry . . . the commute, the childcare . . . when I was doing the corporate thing - I was up at 5 am and often working late at the office til 7 pm (or later, if there were a crisis or deadline). Then there were the evening meetings . . . So I never got the "slower pace down South" comments. If you are a busy person w/ a demanding job . . . you are gonna be just as busy here as anywhere else.