Posted on 09/29/2011 9:13:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
That is currently on the agenda in my local from a bunch of transplanted damned yankees. Nearly everyone of them has the same story “Oh it just great living in a small town, but you all need to do this and not do that, the way we did it in xyz where we come from...”
So far they haven’t managed to infest the local government but it hasn’t kept them from trying.
I live in Georgia. On our small street(5 houses) we counted the number of firearms.... a grand total of 32. Not too shabby.
In rural areas and suburbs across the country, there are two types of transplants from cities. One type I welcome. The other I tell to get the eff out of here. Since I'm not a Southern Gentlemen, I'm not polite about it either.
Those I welcome are those who do not want to bring the big city and their big city values with them. Roscommon (my old home) is a small town. We like it that way. We shoot guns, and our democrats are more socially conservative than some republicans. Those I don't welcome are those who move here and want to bring the trash from the city with them. This is the country. Deal with it.
I transplanted to Northfield Township, just outside of Ann Arbor. It's a liberal county and a competitive local area slightly more republican than democrat. I knew what I was getting into here. I'm not going to demand this and that outside of sound practices on the township level.
If I ever became a damnyankee (one word, as my Southern girlfriend says), I wouldn't be pushing for an Ann Arbor style of leftism, or even Roscommon populism. I'd go to an area I'd like, and blend in as much as I can with my accent. The only things with me is that I won't change my religion, and won't waver on life issues. As far as taxes go, I know how it's done in liberal areas, and I do care how it was done up north. It's bad.
Full agreement with your post. Summers are hot and humid, Winters are mild. Welcome to the South, Adder.
Only took me 30 some years to get that card...I was “fast tracked”.
LOL
Guilty, but I was only ten. That was 1978. Smartest move my Dad ever made. I also married a southerner!
Change the specific locations and a few minor details and I could have written this article. I moved this summer, btw.
The guy nails even some of the nuances. I love telling my friends at my old home that live on postage stamp lots that pay $500+ a month in property taxes that mine are just a hair over $500 a YEAR. And I have 15 acres and a new home comperable to theirs. And southern hostpitality is almost like a pool in which one can swim. It is real. It is tangible. It is very good on the blood pressure.
Back when I still lived in Louisiana, I ran into an Ohio transplant who kept mouthing off about how ‘all you white Southeners are racists’, blah, blah. I said two words to her: “Marge Shott.” She sputtered for a while, cursed at me and then turned away.
Gee ... gonna have to talk to everyone down here. They cut the time limit when some of us natives weren’t looking. Only thirty years? .. Here’s some Dixieland ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzeLoa1gwCU ... may you love the South, as most here do.
“...a month in property taxes that mine are just a hair over $500 a YEAR”
SHHHH! Don’t talk like that!! All you ‘ll wind up with are a bunch of Yankee parasites headed toward your town to do for y’all what they’ve already done almost everywhere else...
—And he should be especially interested in understanding why African Americans are fleeing his home city of Chicago for the South, too.—
Funny he mentioned that. Whenever I come into contact with someone who lives down here clearly talks like they are from the north I ask them where they are from. So far, about 3/4 of them are from Chicago.
—Too often the first thing you hear from a transplant is how much they wish the city would do thus and so like they did “up there” and then vote to raise taxes for it.—
I’m a transplant (just this summer) from the Northwest. That is NOT what you will be hearing from me. I want roads and, if I’m close enough in, water and electric. Other than that I want them to leave me to do for myself. That is why I moved here.
Had to get my dog in (a little white maltipoo) last night because we just cut the “yard” (about 400 bales worth) and there were coyotes in the “yard” that he wanted to destroy.
But if they get the dog, I’m not gonna get the state involved when I’ve got my own perfectly functioning rifle.
He is sort of a “city slicker” metrosexual dog anyway.
—Of course, I moved down here because my values matched.—
Same here. I just had lunch for the first time with my boss. Turns out we are politically redundant. Not only regarding our beliefs, but our level of knowledge about specific issues. It was pretty amazing.
Some FRiendly advice. Keep the little critter indoors at night, unless “city slicker” metrosexual dog is packing heat. Recommend a 45.
—Earlier this year I saw her and all she did was complain about how we had a cold winter, how it is not diverse, how people here do not accept homosexual marriage or their agenda, how many in the public schools actually teach the constitution, do the pledge honor soldiers, marines at labor day etc, have Christmas concerts at the public schools, how many hunt, fish, no veggie places, no vegan places, hardly no bicycle lanes and MANY CONFEDERATE FLAGS.—
That pretty much sums up why I moved to the south from the Northwest this year as well as why I love it down here. Well, I’m a former bicycle commuter but I’m NOT gonna make ‘em put bike lanes in. The traffic is so light it isn’t an issue anyway. And I’m neutral on the confederate flag. It means different things to different people and I leave it at that.
I've moved to Memphis from Los Angeles by way of Texas. I was constantly being mistaken for a Northerner.
—grits, battle flags, different accents, slower way of life—
Dont forget Ski! And a SLAW BURGER! (though I prefer slaw dogs...
Nice tour, but this isn’t me: http://countrysidefoodrides.blogspot.com/2011/09/dumas-walker-greensburg-ky.html
Great post! My advice to transplants...bring a notepad. Write down all the things you like, and why you like them, and how they got that way in the first place. Then go back North and make those things happen there. We’ll all be better off. Think of it as a “study abroad” program. :-)
The South doesn’t change— it changes people.
Thanks for the vid!
I do love the South. I cannot stand to visit the North, tho I go there on business sometimes. Its an almost alien place.
But I do sometimes have to remind myself I am not truly from aroun heah[but its not so’s you’d notice....]
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