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Lexington has almost everything I'm looking for, and my only concern is not knowing what the people will be like? I have never been to Kentucky, nor known anyone from there, which is amazing considering how much I've traveled. I spent COVID marooned in Tucson and it was awful. Not my sort of folks, so I swore I would go back to my Southern roots and moved to Little Rock, Ar.
It's been great so far, and the people are generally what I remembered from the Ms Coast. Friendly, outgoing, and while polite, are certainly not shy from speaking their minds. Politically correct? As if! But the city itself is a problem because of the huge hills and dangerous drivers that make biking almost impossible.
I can't figure out Lexington's residents though. People on the phone either have had no accent at all, or occasionally a sort of a country/Appalachian accent. They sounded friendly enough, but they did on the phone in Tucson too. Asking what the people are like in a city w/ well over 300,000 of them is crazy, but overall, what might I be encountering there? Thanks.
Hi StephenMM!
Well, people from Lexington are Southerners, so yeah we are pretty much like Southerners!
But, it is an upper Southern State, so it's a little different from deep Southern states..but just a little.
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I can't figure out Lexington's residents though. People on the phone either have had no accent at all, or occasionally a sort of a country/Appalachian accent. They sounded friendly enough, but they did on the phone in Tucson too. Asking what the people are like in a city w/ well over 300,000 of them is crazy, but overall, what might I be encountering there? Thanks.
For the most part people don't have really strong accents here. (It's not that way everywhere in Kentucky though)
A lot of people in more rural parts of Kentucky move here (probably for jobs).
Lexington for whatever reason (maybe it's the University or whatever) has a lot of people that moved here that aren't Lexington natives....I have had friends neighbors and co-workers here from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Texas, California, Utah, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Alaska and Hawaii (and probably a few other places that I am just not recalling. Oh yeah from Great Britain, Ireland and France too.
And India, Korea and Japan too.
I was working in a store in Beaumont part of Lexington, when a co-worker and I were talking about (she had actually moved here from Texas) that she had never seen a place that had so many people come in from other states and other countries, like every day. Working with the public, you see a lot of that here.
You should definitely come visit here first, I would always suggest that before moving.
You can watch you tube videos, see pictures and info online, and by all means use google street view to get to know the area also...but nothing is quite as good and gives you the information you will need to know if this will probably work...as just going there, and experiencing it yourself.
Here's my take as a non resident. I've only traveled through and briefly visited. I keep tabs on this forum because I think very highly of Kentucky and it's on my short list.
It's different. And I mean that in a good way. It seems to be a cross roads of the South, Appalachia and the Midwest. It is more like the upland south than the deep south or the Carolinas. It has more in common with Cincinnati than Atlanta.
I would almost say it takes some of the best qualities of all those places and rolls them up into a unique place that I don't think is replicated elsewhere.
Lexington has almost everything I'm looking for, and my only concern is not knowing what the people will be like? I have never been to Kentucky, nor known anyone from there, which is amazing considering how much I've traveled. I spent COVID marooned in Tucson and it was awful. Not my sort of folks, so I swore I would go back to my Southern roots and moved to Little Rock, Ar.
It's been great so far, and the people are generally what I remembered from the Ms Coast. Friendly, outgoing, and while polite, are certainly not shy from speaking their minds. Politically correct? As if! But the city itself is a problem because of the huge hills and dangerous drivers that make biking almost impossible.
I can't figure out Lexington's residents though. People on the phone either have had no accent at all, or occasionally a sort of a country/Appalachian accent. They sounded friendly enough, but they did on the phone in Tucson too. Asking what the people are like in a city w/ well over 300,000 of them is crazy, but overall, what might I be encountering there? Thanks.
Why not visit the place a few times to see for yourself? I get that given the huge number of possible relocation destinations in this country it seems impossible to visit all of them given the expense and time involved, but if Lexington is your top destination then it'd certainly be sensible to experience it first hand before making a decision.
Kentucky is a southern state. Not sure, why this argument is getting stirred back up. The state is basically Tenneessee outside of Lexington, Louisville, and the 3 counties near Cincinnati. Due to transplants and their location right on the ohio river (Cincy counties and Louisville) they have some midwestern influence. Western and Southern Kentucky are where you find the ''deep'' southern parts. Eastern Kentucky is pretty much Eastern TN, Western NC, and SWVA rolled into one.
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