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Northeast
Best: City density. Cooler summers. Fall foliage. Bratwurst. Baseball.
Worst: Winter. Stressed out/rude people. No sweet tea. High taxes.
The South
Best: Laid back vibe. Good weather except for humid mid-summers. Great beaches. Warm ocean in the summer. A strong sense of history. Old architecture. Beautiful rural areas. College football. ACC basketball. Bluegrass. Sweet tea. Low taxes.
Worst: Humid summers. Backwards rural folk.
The Midwest
Good: Friendly people. The bread basket of the world. Big 10 football. Traditional family values.
Why are you still there? You should move. I moved to the South (Atlanta) and don't enjoy it here very much so I'm moving to San Fran.
Why are you there? move to the slow rural, "real american", patriotic, gun totting, cow tipping, confederate flag bearing lifestyle your looking for.
I was raised here. I'd love to get out as soon as possible, but given the national economic situation and ties/obligations to my own job, it's likely I'm looking at more like a year and a half to two years, realistically speaking.
You can keep the Northeast and San Francisco. Of course, I'm not into big cities, so I don't much care for Atlanta either.
I think your last comment is a bit of a stereotype (especially as far as cow tipping is concerned), although I do own a Confederate flag to honor those who gave their lives fighting in the War of Northern Aggression, but I can't fly it up here in Little Moscow.
I always wanted to know... Is gay-loving, over-spending, club-hopping, liberal Atlanta "real America" since it is in Georgia? (I know dumb question... I'm expecting a dumb answer)
Georgia's a fantastic state, but as I said to another poster, I don't really care for Atlanta. This is not really a slam against the city though; I generally dislike large urban centers. As for Atlanta's politics, cities are always going to be more liberal than rural areas. Of course, even with Atlanta's influence, Georgia still kept its head on straight and didn't vote for that snakeoil salesman in 2008.
I was raised here. I'd love to get out as soon as possible, but given the national economic situation and ties/obligations to my own job, it's likely I'm looking at more like a year and a half to two years, realistically speaking.
You can keep the Northeast and San Francisco. Of course, I'm not into big cities, so I don't much care for Atlanta either.
I think your last comment is a bit of a stereotype (especially as far as cow tipping is concerned), although I do own a Confederate flag to honor those who gave their lives fighting in the War of Northern Aggression, but I can't fly it up here in Little Moscow.
I agree, and I don't hate the South, I love it down here, I was born and raised here, but your statement about things being traditional down here is just a stereotype. If you go to ANY big city in the South, you're going to find the SAME, liberal, peace-loving, tree hugging, people as you would up north, and if you go to the RURAL areas, things in those areas stay the same and tend to be conservative. SAME thing up north. I'm sure you've been to a rural area up north, it's NO DIFFERENT then a RURAL area in the South, same conservative right-wing, anti-government, pro-gun people. It's all about URBAN, and RURAL, RATHER then NORTH and SOUTH. Trust me.
This is true to some extent, although I think there are a few things to consider:
You should read the thread somewhere in the General U.S. forum about conservative cities. There's the Northeast's liberal cities - New York City, Boston, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia and then there's the Southern cities. I guess you can consider these areas "liberal", but certainly not liberal like up here. Nashville, for example, had a very conservative feel to me.
Rural areas are conservative everywhere, but what about suburban towns and small cities? The South seems to have a greater wealth of these. I've been to several large suburban areas and a few of Tennessee's (for example) smaller cities, and they were pretty darn conservative compared to anything in the NY/NJ/MA area.
you scream a lot of the things I despise about certain areas of the south (of course with understanding it exists in the north too, but to a larger extent in the south)
I have been to 46 of the 50 states, so yes ive obviously been out of the midwest. I have been to crazy California, the peoples republik of New England, the Soviet socialist Republik of New Jersey. Ive seen with my own eyes the insanity that exists in certain parts of this nation.
Glenn Beck!?!?! Is that you?
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