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With threads like this a person has to decide if being honest is worth all the anger\hurt feelings from Southerners. So I prefer to stay out of this discussion.
Heat and humidity. This was especially bad prior to cheap household air conditioning.
Another thing is that the South used to host a lot of diseases (malaria, dengue fever, etc) that are nowadays considered to be tropical diseases by and large. Having to survive such a load deadly diseases may make you a tough old bugger, but it probably takes a bit of the spring out your step too.
IMO heat and humidity for southerners not being a bit faster is a cop out. its bull.
there are a number of factors as to why the south is slower than the north as far as pace. overall, the south is slower in the winter time than we are in the summer.
IMO heat and humidity for southerners not being a bit faster is a cop out. its bull.
there are a number of factors as to why the south is slower than the north as far as pace. overall, the south is slower in the winter time than we are in the summer.
just saying.
Exactly! Maybe *compared to* the North (and San Francisco) but people here in the South (judging from NC) strike me as being much more rushed than some Northern counterparts.
IMO heat and humidity for southerners not being a bit faster is a cop out. its bull.
there are a number of factors as to why the south is slower than the north as far as pace. overall, the south is slower in the winter time than we are in the summer.
This is a repost of a reply I made to America's Laziest States thread.
Here is a quotation from a letter written by a Massachusetts gentleman in 1858 after he had settled in western Virginia, now West Virginia. I did not realize how much of a West Virginian I was until I read his letter. It described my dad and me to a T. My favorite part is the last line.
Quote:
Ceredo, December 8, 1858
Dear Mother, your letter received and was glad to hear of your good health. Ceredo has not changed a great deal since I last wrote. It is winter now with us...We won't have much cold weather here but it has rained the most of the time. We have a meeting a part of every Sunday. I don't think this is a very moral community. The Sabbath is generally spent gunning or fishing by the Virginians but the eastern people mostly attend church...The Virginians differ much from the eastern people. They are a very slow moulded people, little or no energy about them. The farmers do not take any care of their land. All they seem to care for is to just get along.
what city in the south is as fast as we are in ny, philly, boston, jersey city, etc. winter, summer, fall or spring?
calm down. there's no hidden agenda when it comes to me. if i want to say something then i'll just go ahead and say it. trust me. like i said in the last thread, you pride yourselves in the fact that you're laid back and not full of congestion, swarming with ppl, you like your space and enjoy driving in your car rather than relying on public transportation where you have to sit or stand on the train with mad ppl, etc. and you call us rude and say we live in shoe boxes, we rush from point a to point b, we don't stop and smell the roses or whatever...
but now you're upset that you live in an area that's slower?? why, because a southerner didn't say you're slower paced?
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