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Old 08-22-2007, 06:53 AM
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Yes, North Carolina is just about as diverse as it gets. From the Mountains to the Piedmont, to the Coast. Cary is just one town amoung many, each with its own character. I got my "Containment Area for Relocated Yankees" from someone I worked with who had lived there. She loved it. I think they like to draw themselves apart, but as long as they don't require that I live there, I really don't care. I have another friend who has a daughter and grandchildren living there. They are all native to North Carolina. Her husband, however, is not a native. Keep the sunny side up!

 
Old 08-25-2007, 01:23 PM
 
Location: Clayton, NC
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We lived in Cary for 6 months while house hunting during our relocation from NJ. We liked it there and house hunted there as well. Just couldn't find what we wanted there in our price range so looked further out. I did like the easy access to all things, something we don't have quite as much here where we ended up. Not sure I understand the despising a place. Either its for you or its not, can't say I've ever despised a place I lived other than our last place NJ which had NO community feel. AND apparently now is the hoods/cripts gang central (we got out just in time).

Just last week I took the kids to the Barber Shop, something my husband usually does. I'll never do that again. Mr. Nice Barbershop man bent my ear the entire time telling me his entire life story, which I didn't mind per se (other than the fact that dh told me he usually talks to the kids the entire time). BUT what got me is when he told me how his ex was turning her kids into homesexuals (in front of my children, mind you).

Then he asked me if I knew the difference between a yankee and a damn yankee. A yankee is a one that comes to visit and goes home. A damn yankee is one that comes to visit and stays. He was joking, of course but I could hear a thread of truth in it for him.

That's actually the first time I've heard Yankee other than the thousands of times people explain what CARY stands for.

Lauren
 
Old 08-25-2007, 02:59 PM
 
Location: Cary, NC
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What barbershop was that?
 
Old 08-25-2007, 03:05 PM
 
Location: beautiful North Carolina
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We lived in Cary for 6 months while house hunting during our relocation from NJ. We liked it there and house hunted there as well. Just couldn't find what we wanted there in our price range so looked further out. I did like the easy access to all things, something we don't have quite as much here where we ended up. Not sure I understand the despising a place. Either its for you or its not, can't say I've ever despised a place I lived other than our last place NJ which had NO community feel. AND apparently now is the hoods/cripts gang central (we got out just in time).

Just last week I took the kids to the Barber Shop, something my husband usually does. I'll never do that again. Mr. Nice Barbershop man bent my ear the entire time telling me his entire life story, which I didn't mind per se (other than the fact that dh told me he usually talks to the kids the entire time). BUT what got me is when he told me how his ex was turning her kids into homesexuals (in front of my children, mind you).

Then he asked me if I knew the difference between a yankee and a damn yankee. A yankee is a one that comes to visit and goes home. A damn yankee is one that comes to visit and stays. He was joking, of course but I could hear a thread of truth in it for him.

That's actually the first time I've heard Yankee other than the thousands of times people explain what CARY stands for.

Lauren
Think I'd be looking for a new Barber Shop Lauren... at least for the kids
 
Old 08-25-2007, 06:41 PM
 
Location: Clayton, NC
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What barbershop was that?
I'm really not comfortable sharing that here. I mean, I don't think he meant any harm, just his views are different than mine. I don't want to hurt his business any. PM me if you really want to know.

And I agree, Jeannie, I think based on that experience last week, I'll be looking elsewhere for the kids' cuts.

Lauren
 
Old 08-25-2007, 06:46 PM
 
Location: Cary, NC
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OK, I understand
 
Old 08-26-2007, 03:40 PM
 
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The North Carolina native and thinking of people as Yankee's thing is actually probably more rooted in a rural vs. urban bias. A Vermonter would be much less likely to be frowned upon than someone from LI (the worst) NJ (just as bad) or even Buffalo etc. It has to do with anyone who is anything like the stereotypical Soprano/Gotti/cheeseball Guido.

This kind of bias exists everywhere. My Vermont wife and others from up there refer to people from Massachusetts as M*******s. People in Portland, Or. despise all the Califonians (especially from LA) who are moving there driving up prices.

When an area is run over by people who choose the place that you grew up in and love, by reading a magazine article and figuring that they can get more for their money, and they drive up prices and destroy the quality of life for the natives, then it makes people bitter.

In the North Carolina mountains NJ developers have bought up huge areas and built them to be like idealized versions of the Adirondacks. Someone from New York might like that, but I take it as a direct attack on the culture in which I grew up and essentially a version of cultural cleansing. It makes it much harder for me to live and let live. People should never be ashamed to have pride in the place and culture in which they were raised. Or to want to protect the quality of life they knew growing up.

Why don't all these people from LI or NJ consider moving to any of the towns in New York state of Maine or something? Why such a herd mentality?
 
Old 08-26-2007, 03:44 PM
 
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Why don't all these people from LI or NJ consider moving to any of the towns in New York state of Maine or something? Why such a herd mentality?
Because they don't want to. They want to move to North Carolina. I suggest you just learn to live with it.
 
Old 08-26-2007, 05:33 PM
 
Location: Wake Forest, NC
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When an area is run over by people who choose the place that you grew up in and love, by reading a magazine article and figuring that they can get more for their money, and they drive up prices and destroy the quality of life for the natives, then it makes people bitter.
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I can't help to think that this is what the Native Americans were thinking when the Europeans colonized what is now North Carolina. Or after the Civil War, when the then locals complained about the carpet baggers moving here (who are now the ancestors of many locals).

I guess a hundred years from now, my descendants will be complaining about non-locals moving into the area and ruining it too.
 
Old 08-26-2007, 06:51 PM
 
Location: Cary, NC
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Why don't all these people from LI or NJ consider moving to any of the towns in New York state of Maine or something? Why such a herd mentality?
Too cold, too rural and not enough jobs...
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