For those that moved to NC from big cities, do you think we are hicks? (Raleigh: credit, buy)
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I'm not exactly sure what a hick is, but I have an idea and you can find the exact same people in Brooklyn and South Boston that you can find in some parts of Raleigh.
Being a local, and having older relatives, I've heard a great deal over the years of locals complaining about how the transplants (NE ones in particular) want to come here and "show us the 'right' way to do things."
People get frustrated for no reason.
The reality is that if everything was perfect back home, many transplants would never have relocated. Most I have met seek to bring along the nice things from where they used to live and acclimate to the nice things about this area. No harm there.
The know-it-alls are the types I presume to have had an inflated sense of self LONG before they moved here from NY/NJ/where ever else.
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Overall, I don't think of the area as being "hick"ish, but if you drive into Pittsboro or out in other rural areas in Orange or Chatham counties - yeah, it is pretty slow.
I think of the area as small city (or 2 actually), with rural surroundings. The people in the cities/suburbs are like people everywhere, as they are from everywhere. Some people in the outskirts could probably be called hicks or country - very country.
(Twingles, we had friends on LI and all the mail they sent us was postmarked Hicksville, too. I always got a good laugh over that.)
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Originally Posted by Sayantsi
I'm not exactly sure what a hick is, but I have an idea and you can find the exact same people in Brooklyn and South Boston that you can find in some parts of Raleigh.
A hick is like a redneck, I suppose - a person from a very small town or out in the country who doesn't know big city ways. A hick from the sticks is what we'd say when we'd drive around PA.
I'm sure there are many people who live in Brooklyn or South Boston who can be described with unflattering terms, but I'm not sure hick would be an accurate one, unless he's a very recent transplant.
When my family was moving here from southern California and I was in high school, I really thought we were moving to "the country" but my dad promised us it was cosmopolitan. lol
Raleigh people, no. But I think anywhere more rural is where people think of the term "hick". I'm way from WI and out in the country (where some of my family lives) it is known to be "hick town". Now I have some redneck family members up there and they're proud of it and don't even want to move to anywhere urban. I don't think it's necessarily the south because there are rural areas everywhere. I went far enough north in WI to a really small town and all the people there had what sounded like southern accents! It was funny.
I was born and raised in Louisburg, NC and have spent the last 25 years in LA, NYC, Boston and Atlanta. There are plenty of Camaro-driving, double-wide trailer-livin' rednecks in California and New York State also.
I think NC is the greatest state in the country as far as being progressive, forward-thinking and planning for the future. I don't know if its towns and cities will ever be able to shake off the small-town mentality however.
NC has a long way to go accepting gay people like me. Every time I'm at home and casually mention anything gay-related, people are so caught offguard that their face flinches in shock.
That and being up in everybody else's business is very "hick" to me.
Also all the men wearing pleated pants and unstylish shoes and clothes in general is quite different from large cities.
If asked, a custodian in NYC could pick out a better bottle of champagne and a better looking men's suit than most NC millionaires. I guarantee you that.
There is a world of difference between rural, uneducated people in NC and educated people in the larger cities.
We have to suffer due to their (the rural, educated people's) decisions, unfortunately.
They are hicks.
Don't you mean rural, uneducated people's decisions? it seems especially bad lately and N.C. is being talked about around the country in unflattering ways.
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