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[hears_where_the_story]

Originally Posted by go falcons

If you come with an open mind ,I think you'll be fine .
If you come with an attitude of it's better up north ( or wherever you move from ) , I can assure you you will be met with a good deal of resentment.
Expect that things will be different in many ways - don't be offended by people asking you to church etc ( it's a southern thing ) Accept it for what it usually is , a friendly invitation.
Just as there are many northerners who have moved south and hated it , there are many who have moved here who have loved it.

Originally Posted by SirThomas

We're not the people we're made out to be at all. Sure, we don't like people who ridicule us and belittle us because of our political or religious beliefs; but if you're nice to us we'll reciprocate ten-fold. The most you'll get from us is a teasing. As long as you don't come expecting everything to be the same (it won't be), then you should be fine.

Thank you.

I may have a few other questions, but not at the moment.

One of our main concerns was moving to a place where we'd truly be saving and still have good amenities and quality of life, as up here, (Or better, really, due to better job opportunities and more affordable goods and services.)

You've all been really helpful and informative!

I may be back with a few more questions, but at present that is all.

Thanks so much, again!

O, one more for now, I forgot,

Does everyone down there say "Ya'll"?

Or is that saying strictly regional or unique to certain Southern states?

Is it said often, or not at all?

Does it depend on the person or their social station?

Just wondering...

Thank you all !

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by hears_where_the_story

Thank you.

I may have a few other questions, but not at the moment.

One of our main concerns was moving to a place where we'd truly be saving and still have good amenities and quality of life, as up here, (Or better, really, due to better job opportunities and more affordable goods and services.)

Most of the job and career opportunities that you find in Georgia will most likely be in the Atlanta metro region because that is where most of the population and economic activity is in the state of Georgia.

(...Of the 10 million+ residents in the state of Georgia, over 6 million of them live in the greater Atlanta metro region....Atlanta dominates the state of Georgia in a way that is somewhat similar to the way that New York City dominates New York State and the Tri-State area in the Northeast.)

Some significant job and career opportunities may also be found in other smaller metros in the state like:

> Savannah (...home to one of the largest and fastest-growing International seaports in the Americas at the Port of Savannah)...

> Columbus (...home to the headquarters of insurance giant AFLAC and the site of a major military installation at Fort Benning)...

> Augusta (...home to a large and fast-growing medical community and the site of a major military installation at Fort Gordon).

But most job and career opportunities in Georgia will by far be found in the greater Atlanta metro region.

The greater Atlanta metro region generally has a great quality-of-life with good schools and lots of amenities to be found in most areas.

The biggest problem with the Atlanta metro region is that traffic congestion (and even outright gridlock) can be a very major problem at times....A problem that is exacerbated by an inadequate road network and the severe lack of the kind of multimodal transportation alternatives and options (heavy rail trains, subways, commuter trains, commuter bus, etc) that are found in a Northeastern state like New Jersey.

Originally Posted by hears_where_the_story

O, one more for now, I forgot,

Does everyone down there say "Ya'll"?

Or is that saying strictly regional or unique to certain Southern states?

Is it said often, or not at all?

Does it depend on the person or their social station?

Just wondering...

Thank you all !

Not everyone in Georgia and the Southeast says "Y'all".

Some people in Georgia and the Southeast may say "Y'all", but many people do not say "Y'all" in accordance with the stereotype that many people in other parts of the country may have of Southeasterners.

[hears_where_the_story]

Originally Posted by Born 2 Roll

Most of the job and career opportunities that you find in Georgia will most likely be in the Atlanta metro region because that is where most of the population and economic activity is in the state of Georgia.

(...Of the 10 million+ residents in the state of Georgia, over 6 million of them live in the greater Atlanta metro region....Atlanta dominates the state of Georgia in a way that is somewhat similar to the way that New York City dominates New York State and the Tri-State area in the Northeast.)

Some significant job and career opportunities may also be found in other smaller metros in the state like:

> Savannah (...home to one of the largest and fastest-growing International seaports in the Americas at the Port of Savannah)...

> Columbus (...home to the headquarters of insurance giant AFLAC and the site of a major military installation at Fort Benning)...

> Augusta (...home to a large and fast-growing medical community and the site of a major military installation at Fort Gordon).

But most job and career opportunities in Georgia will by far be found in the greater Atlanta metro region.

The greater Atlanta metro region generally has a great quality-of-life with good schools and lots of amenities to be found in most areas.

The biggest problem with the Atlanta metro region is that traffic congestion (and even outright gridlock) can be a very major problem at times....A problem that is exacerbated by an inadequate road network and the severe lack of the kind of multimodal transportation alternatives and options (heavy rail trains, subways, commuter trains, commuter bus, etc) that are found in a Northeastern state like New Jersey.


Not everyone in Georgia and the Southeast says "Y'all".

Some people in Georgia and the Southeast may say "Y'all", but many people do not say "Y'all" in accordance with the stereotype that many people in other parts of the country may have of Southeasterners.

Thanks so much!

No, I knew not every, every single person said "Y'all". We have never lived there, nor been there for extended periods to know. So, thank you for the feedback..

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by hears_where_the_story

Thanks so much!

No, I knew not every, every single person said "Y'all". We have never lived there, nor been there for extended periods to know. So, thank you for the feedback..

The biggest concern is not stereotypes of words that Southeasterners may or may not say.

The biggest concern is whether you will be able to find the quality-of-life that you are seeking after moving to Georgia.

You expressed a concern about wanting to live in an area with better job opportunities and more affordable goods and services.

Generally, the job opportunities are good in Georgia if one is skilled in specific high-paying career fields or if someone is transferring the same exact position with the same exact company that they worked for in another part of the country with the same or greater amount of pay.

If someone is not working in a career field that is high-paying and in high-demand or they not are transferring a well-paying job that they had in another part of the country that will pay the same amount or greater, they often risk struggling financially in a Georgia economy that has struggled mightily at times since the start of the Great Recession in 2007-08 and a Georgia economy that has not been really truly robust since the glory days of the 1990's.

The cost of living may be significantly lower in Georgia than in a place like New Jersey....But the pay scale for many positions may also be significantly lower as well unless one is highly-skilled in a high-demand profession or is transferring a high-paying position from another part of the country with the same amount of pay.

[masonbauknight]

@Here'sWhere. Huge southern metro areas like Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and Miami are very "national" cities now, and full of northern and western transplants. Even in "midsize" metros like Charlotte and Nashville and Richmond, northerners will find the same amenities and will fit in well. (I met a young student from Los Angeles who fell in love with Charlotte and wants to stay there, but it is a metro of 2.6 million people and has lots going for it.) In these larger cities, there are good public schools as well better preparation for the better southern universities (these days, main campuses of the Universities of Virginia/Charlottesville, North Carolina/Chapel Hill, Georgia/Athens, Florida/Gainesville, and certainly private universities like Duke, Tulane, Emory and Vanderbilt, are all hard to gain admission to in the freshman year).

Smaller southern cities in the Deep South than the above might be a more difficult adjustment, especially if you are moving from a "greater metro" in the North (NYC-NJ-CT, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington). Though cities like Columbia, Huntsville, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Jackson, and Knoxville are far more cosmopolitan than they were just 20 years ago, they might be less of a good fit for urbanites from northern New Jersey. Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Nashville would be my recommendation.