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Why dont you post your college diploma so can we can corroborate your bragging.
Personally, I respect the entrepreneurial aspect more. A college degree doesn't mean one is smarter, generally, it just means they are more desirable for working for another person.
People who are negative about south tend to have your politics
I know a ton of transplants and they love living in SC
If you can't get paid well in south, it prob has something to do with your resume.
Unless you're being paid to tout the South, I can't figure out why you'd choose such a weird hill to defend (and die on).
The South has some incredible things that's better than the rest of the country.
Crime is not one of them. Not because I know a ton of transplants who told me so, or because of my politics. Because of studies and statistics.
Let me reiterate here, you don't know statistics. We don't ever issue hard stances on anything. Everything in stats is about likelihoods, and so we always provide what's called a Margin of Error. You take a pool of data, run some regressions analysis on them (essentially the program randomly pulls sample sizes from the population to determine if some kind of pattern emerges from the variables that are being tested. It replicates this process over and over again, using different randomized samples, in order to control for a multitude of biases that could be ingrained in the data.), and at the end, the best you can do is conclude that such-and-such is statistically more or less likely along a 95% confidence interval (most of the time we stick with 2 standard deviations, aka 95% CI. these parameters can be adjusted depending on what's being studied.)
And so the South is (yes, I know you love the South, but you need to hear this) STATISTICALLY higher in crime rates, STATISTICALLY lower in education achievement rates, etc...
Now I'm sure that within that vast population data I was talking about, YOU and a lot of your transplant friends DON'T fit the model. This is very much accounted for in the regression analysis.
The rabbit hole goes much deeper, and I really urge you to study at least some basics. You don't seem to realize how little credibility you have when your best arguments come down to nothing more than "cuz my neighbor said so."
I won't argue with the logic of the statement, but in the end, the result is the same. If cold weather keeps the crime down, then so be it. Makes the place safer? I'll take it.
But northern urban areas are at least as dangerous and often moreso than southern urban areas, so there's that. PLUS cold weather!
Huh? Pittsburgh is emptying out like my bowels after eating Taco Bell, yet there are TONS of jobs here. Most people I know who are leaving Pittsburgh for the South aren't doing so for economic mobility reasons. They want more sunshine and less winter.
I do believe this - wow, I couldn't believe how cloudy and rainy and cold it is in Pittsburgh and that area. My husband worked up there for several years and while the place has a lot to offer, good weather is not one of those offerings in my opinion!
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