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My wife heard the other day that people that moved down south from ny are now moving back. has anybody you know (yourself included) done this? If so why? We're wondering because we've thought from time to time about moving down south but would like to know the downsides that other northerners have experienced.
For many sitting on your butt on a beach looking at water and sweating loses its appeal rather quickly..
There are/were schools in GA and MS that did have that in very recent years. It is something that occurred in other Southern states within the last 20 years or so, but has been steadily declining. So, while it may not be throughout the South, it has and may still occur in recent years.
You are probally correct, but to the poster I was responding to I don't believe they had any real facts and were just making broad assumptions.
I think many parts of Northeast are uptight, kinda closed-minded, to themselves. That type of personality or response to things doesn't lead to integrating to other regions very well. Other personality traits as well don't integrate well. Not every area has it, but seems to be prevalent. Insular behaviors don't integrate well, either. Seems like other regions go with the flow moreso, but the Northeast is in a time warp of the past, IMO. Not the major metro's, but the smaller metro's/areas for sure.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by this, but certainly the NE doesn't have a monopoly on being uptight, close-minded or insular or in a "time warp of the past". You might want to investigate some parts of the rural South or Midwest.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by this, but certainly the NE doesn't have a monopoly on being uptight, close-minded or insular or in a "time warp of the past". You might want to investigate some parts of the rural South or Midwest.
True enough. But it's kinda interesting that parts of the Northeast could indeed be compared to parts of the rural south or Midwest!
True enough. But it's kinda interesting that parts of the Northeast could indeed be compared to parts of the rural south or Midwest!
That's only "interesting" if you assume that the entire NE is one big urban/suburban metro from Boston southward to Philly. Maine, NH, VT, western MA, upstate NY, or central or western PA aren't like the Boston/Philly corridor at all. The "big" cities/metros in these areas like Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh as well as the medium-sized cities/metros like Portland, Burlington, Erie, and Corning are more like islands of liberal/progressive thinking/politics in the midst of fairly rural areas that are pretty conservative. I would say that the biggest difference between conservatism in the rural South and the rural NE is that there's less of a religious flavor to NE conservatism and more of a libertarian bent.
That most of the populations of these states live in urban areas gives the false impression that these states are uniformly the same, but the differences between western MA and the Boston metro or between SE PA (Philly) and NW PA are much greater than the differences between western MA and NW PA or between Boston and Philly.
That's only "interesting" if you assume that the entire NE is one big urban/suburban metro from Boston southward to Philly. Maine, NH, VT, western MA, upstate NY, or central or western PA aren't like the Boston/Philly corridor at all. The "big" cities/metros in these areas like Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh as well as the medium-sized cities/metros like Portland, Burlington, Erie, and Corning are more like islands of liberal/progressive thinking/politics in the midst of fairly rural areas that are pretty conservative. I would say that the biggest difference between conservatism in the rural South and the rural NE is that there's less of a religious flavor to NE conservatism and more of a libertarian bent.
That most of the populations of these states live in urban areas gives the false impression that these states are uniformly the same, but the differences between western MA and the Boston metro or between SE PA (Philly) and NW PA are much greater than the differences between western MA and NW PA or between Boston and Philly.
You compared Upstate to the rural south and Midwest, not me. That's all I was saying.
Lol come on, now @ckh. You're gonna make me write a list?
I wanted to see what he/she would say. We've already established that many things crossover to all regions to some degree, but I was curious as to what would be said.
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