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When I first infiltrated the Raleigh area from NJ, some 23 plus years ago, I was a PITA comparing "up north" to "down here". That was until one of my co-workers screamed out, "You can run your azz right back up north quick as you ran it down here".
Well I declare, bless my heart and have mercy on my soul, I've been as genteel as a lamb since then.
One of my friends went to college in Georgia and to this day still has a twang. I think a southern accent is easier than most to acquire.
that said. I know native southerners here and their kids don't even have accents so I doubt many transplanted here will fall into that but I've overheard my kids saying things like "ink pen" which makes me laugh.
When I first infiltrated the Raleigh area from NJ, some 23 plus years ago, I was a PITA comparing "up north" to "down here". That was until one of my co-workers screamed out, "You can run your azz right back up north quick as you ran it down here".
Well I declare, bless my heart and have mercy on my soul, I've been as genteel as a lamb since then.
That is the thing that gets most people into trouble (and will set me off)...it's not the accent, it's not typically the rudeness or bluntness....it's the comparing of where one came from with the hint how it's 'done better' there with how things are done here.
Your co-worker was spot on....if someone thinks it was so good up there, why did they move in the first place?
NY = fantastic place to visit, but having lived in both IMO I'd rather live in Raleigh. Having lived overseas now for some time I can now see myself making weekend trips back to NY from Raleigh as regularly taking a 24 hour+ flight many times per year from Singapore to the U.S. puts a 7 hour drive into a much more favorable perspective! Live/work/raise a family in Raleigh and play in NYC - best of both worlds.
Look, let's face it, the reason we get stereotyped is that a lot of it is true. All of you patient, polite, friendly, slow moving southerners should know that many of us taciturn, impatient, but mostly polite folks here in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts have the same view of the "rude new yorkers" as you.
Everyone gets along just fine, but no one can stand the woman from NJ. She's very loud, pushy, completely unwilling to think she might be wrong (which, as a new hire unfamiliar with the business, she often is), refuses to take advice, etc. She tries too hard to be friendly and doesn't understand why no one wants to be around her. My boss says she's brash and arrogant.
There's one of those where I work, but she is from Tennessee. We also have a really quiet soft spoken guy from New Jersey.
We've seen evidence in this thread that native North Carolinianiters can have a very blunt and confrontational attitude that can be seen as in line with the NY/NJ stereotype:
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Yeah, I'm still waiting for a point or question, but I noticed who it was from--that poster seems to love to post as many times as she can, daily. Should someone tell her you don't get "points" for the number of posts?
As P.J. O'Rourke said:
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People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.
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