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BACK ON TOPIC PLEASE. Or this thread will be closed.

[Flash Beagle]

Originally Posted by coletrain

As a southerner living in NY, Ive quickly had enough of the people here. (Among other things). Now I realize there are rude people everywhere, and I hate to generalize, but I find the people here in NY intolerable. (I'm not in the city btw) I constantly hear the stereotypes about we are so dumb,etc. I plan on a move to Southern Vermont very soon as I can't go home due to some circumstances. My question is, are Vermonters generally more accepting of Southerners? I like Vermont, but I can't take another joke about how we bang our cousins and all that jazz.

I live on Long Island and I am very sorry you had to deal with that here. I've lived in NY my whole life and would love to leave myself. Vermont is a beautiful state with friendly people (at least in my experiences).

[Yankeesfan]

Originally Posted by DauntlessDan

It depends on whether you are talking native, generational Vermonters and people that have moved there and accepted Vermont for what it is or the mostly city people who have moved to Vermont and want to convert it to their own private utopia. I have found the latter to be much less tolerant of people from the south.

I think this is pretty accurate. I love Vermont, loved living in Vermont, love visiting Vermont. I also regularly visit family in New York (mostly upstate, some NYC folks), and keep up with some friends there online. There is definitely an attitude of condescension from some who think that those who come from a different region, have accents and different political or religious views are inferior and don't belong here. This is fairly prevalent in NY (more so the closer to the city you are) and Vermont seems to have a lot of NY transplants -- I read an article once that referred to them as the "Newhart contingent" . Several years ago, I can't remember when, the statistic came out that for the first time Vermont had more residents who were born elsewhere than those who were born there. However since you're in or near one of the epicenters of such attitudes, let's hope you find Vermont to be an improvement, and almost surely the rude minority will be counteracted by the more open-minded and friendly majority.

[harpoonalt]

A good rule of thumb is not to generalize about ANY group of people even if the majority of your experiences are negative. Even when I complain about NJ/CONN/NY drivers on my way home, deep down I know they're not all bad. Good and bad people wherever you go. If you're looking for everyone to be nice, you might have to wait til you get to heaven........