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To elaborate; and speaking as someone who has lived in several places around the country in his life (and married a NY/Southerner here); I think what Brentwood is saying is that there are SO many people from NY/NJ/etc. here that if you really don't want to live in an area where there are a lot of "those people", then seriously you might want to look at some other areas. Here's a "shotgun statement" on the subject (and it may start a war but I'll say it because I believe it): if you get "out and around" in the Triangle it is not unusual to go for a week + without hearing a southern accent; but you will be hard pressed to go for a day without hearing a NY accent...
Where in the Triangle can you go "out and about" for a week without hearing southern voices?
Not that I am looking. Just not at all my experience.
Here's a "shotgun statement" on the subject (and it may start a war but I'll say it because I believe it): if you get "out and around" in the Triangle it is not unusual to go for a week + without hearing a southern accent; but you will be hard pressed to go for a day without hearing a NY accent...
My experience here has been the complete opposite of that.
Thank you I appreciate it! I am moving from Virginia, and I am basically trying to find an area where there are not alot of New Yorkers. I like North Carolina, and I'd like to feel like I live in NC, not NY when I move there.
Really, people are moving all over the country and world. I looked a a thread on Montana the other day and the people there were going on and on about the transplants there and how it all was changing. I think you will find that anywhere. People just move a lot now. So maybe the Triangle is 10-20 years ahead of it's time -- I don't see the point resisting it. Sure, there aren't as many Southerners moving to Long Island as the other way around, but we are becoming a very mobile society.
Really, people are moving all over the country and world. I looked a a thread on Montana the other day and the people there were going on and on about the transplants there and how it all was changing. I think you will find that anywhere. People just move a lot now. So maybe the Triangle is 10-20 years ahead of it's time -- I don't see the point resisting it. Sure, there aren't as many Southerners moving to Long Island as the other way around, but we are becoming a very mobile society.
It's the same in Britain too. It used to be a nice place before the pushy Romans came. Then, it was the Jutes jumping on the bandwagon. Afterwards, things really went downhill after the Saxons and Angles with their horrid gutteral accents. Just when it seemed that it couldn't get worse, along come the Norsemen. Oh, and don't get me started on the Normans with their hoity-toity ways.
It's the same in Britain too. It used to be a nice place before the pushy Romans came. Then, it was the Jutes jumping on the bandwagon. Afterwards, things really went downhill after the Saxons and Angles with their horrid gutteral accents. Just when it seemed that it couldn't get worse, along come the Norsemen. Oh, and don't get me started on the Normans with their hoity-toity ways.
Where in the Triangle can you go "out and about" for a week without hearing southern voices?
Not that I am looking. Just not at all my experience.
I think that for some reason a lot of people mistake Georgia and Mississippi accent as a generic Southern accent. Example- Paula Deen from is from Georgia. The NC accent is different, few people speak like she does. Lack of a Georgian accent does not mean that there is a lack of a Southern accent.
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Here's a "shotgun statement" on the subject (and it may start a war but I'll say it because I believe it): if you get "out and around" in the Triangle it is not unusual to go for a week + without hearing a southern accent; but you will be hard pressed to go for a day without hearing a NY accent...
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