Posted on 06/13/2006 1:19:15 AM PDT by goldstategop
I have no idea where Mr. Giuliani has purchased or intends to purchase property. But if he moves down South, then he's just another damnyankee.
Like you.
BTW, congratulations. It appears that you have a one man fan club, the infamous mac_truck. He's pure pedestrian here. He'll attempt to join in with your smug and impotent attempts to satirize my impassioned lamentations at the loss of My South, but take solace lindaunderscoretwotwozerozerothree, in that you will not be a lonely lemming plummeting towards your doom but will be joined by your equally inept faithful admirer.
I hope there's an anger management class near you. You are WAY over the "taking this too seriously" line.
Sorry you don't like the "damnyankees". Win the next war.
Actually, I go to an anger management session once a week. It's required in this particular institution where I am temporarily confined.
You are WAY over the "taking this too seriously" line.
Are you sure that you know what you're talking about? Your condescending posture has obscured your discretionary objectivity, assuming that you've ever had discretionary objectivity.
Sorry you don't like the "damnyankees". Win the next war.
You don't have to 'win the war' to have an opinion, you dumb knobhead. When you liberals were winning the culture war back in the 60's & 70's, I didn't like you then and I don't like you now that we conservatives are winning the culture war.
There are optimist amongst us Southern traditionalists that believe we will win the war against the neo-yankee invaders. I just don't happen to be one of them.
Tell your keepers to up it to twice a week, at a bare minimum. ;-D
Oh, good, I see the meds have kicked in.
Now, for anyone who's still out there, this is the kind of thing my husband and I are likely to be interested in (although on more land and not necessarily in the "gated community" atmosphere):
http://www.beverly-hanks.com/propertysearch2/luxuryhome/346588
We have looked at the Asheville/Hendersonville/Flat Rock area, and liked it, but also want to see more of the north-western part of the state.
It depends on the mountain.
We just bought a generator yesterday. It's insurance against a power outage. If we buy one the power won't go out.
Another 'neighbor' on the mountain has had a generator for 11 years and has never had to use it. This is way up around Boone and Blowing Rock, NC. Right by the Blue Ridge Parkway, about 3500' elevation. Doesn't sound like much to someone from Denver but it's high enough to keep it comfortable and cool during a hot southern summer.
Blowing Rock is good. Boone and West Jefferson too.
Check out this view from Canyon's Restaurant in Blowing Rock.
http://raysweather.com/canyons.php
my great grand parents grew up in hendersonville,nc and family is still there. can you imagine what that town is like since it has recently been listed as the nation's top retirement destination? it was bad in the 60's with the migration of new yorkers from florida every summer. now it is a full scale invasion from the northeast and florida.
Can I imagine what it's like? Hell yes! I'm right in the middle of it.
The first wave of yankees just brought their money and retired. But soon, they had to have their support system, so Sal came down to open a deli, Vinny opened an Italian restaurant and Tony came to open a 'construction' company.
The 'construction' company was hooked in with the mob and soon the unions started showing up. The next wave of yankees coming down were the sons and daughters of the retired. They came looking jobs. Some came looking trouble.
This wave of yankees is similar to the border jumpers from Mexico. Some come looking jobs and others are just criminals.
If you want to see what LA will look like in 10 years, look at Mexico City.
If you want to see what the South will look like in 10 years, look at New Jersey.
"can you imagine what that town is like since it has recently been listed as the nation's top retirement destination?"
Yes, since I was there on a visit for a week last year. The place is doing very well; the downtown shopping street which had been all but boarded up and abandoned is now full of lovely shops and restaurants. Locals told us they had despaired of the town's future (they were down to something like 16 stores open on a six-block street) and now it was a totally different picture.
That's what the "full scale invasion" has done; saved the place.
http://www.beverly-hanks.com/images_GUI/hendersonville.jpg
pure falsehood. nothing was boarded up.
saved the place
since when does downtown mean "the place"
when a high number of people move in a town from florida or the northeast, that is an invasion. sorry.
I said "all but" boarded up, and was going on what people in the town told me.
But wow, I'd had no idea it was invaded. That's pretty serious. Here I'd been under the impression that people bought property there, but if they just came in and took it by force, well, I can't support that.
I've seen the progress on Main Street. It is a bit cluttered and is fine for some, all who's money is indeed green like mine and yours.
My family is from Hendersonville. They owned a business on Main Street that was opened during the Depression.
Here is a definition of "invasion" from dictionary.com
in·va·sion Pronunciation Key (n-vzhn) n. The act of invading, especially the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer. A large-scale onset of something injurious or harmful, such as a disease. An intrusion or encroachment.
While I completely love many many people from the Northeast, I believe that I can call the large numbers of folks from the Northeastern US that have moved to Henderson County an intrusion of some sort.
Without drawing a stereotype they are often wonderful, but as a group they are more obnoxious, loud and definitely complain more than their Southern neighbors. Many of them would agree on this. Come on, it ain't Mayberry and it ain't Jersey either. But working in that area puts one in touch with some of the most cranky, downright obnoxious people I've met in the South and most of those were born north of the Mason-Dixon line.
In the same sense of conviviality, I suppose I can understand how you feel, but truthfully, what can anyone do about it? We do have the right, as Americans, to live wherever we wish within our means.
If your area is attractive, it's going to attract people, and that area is definitely attractive!
Just avoid Durham and Orange Counties. They call em the Massachusetts Of The South. Overrun by libs.
that was near Binghamton , Ny......I've always felt "countrified" and it doesn't take living in the South or West to feel that way......heck, Jerry Jeff Walker hails from Oneonta,IIRC.....not only that, but I would put my cooking, baking, gardening, sausage-making, canning and preserving right up there with anyone in the good old USA
I lived up in Michigan for a few years and the country boys that I met up there were some good fellows and would make good neighbors no matter where we lived.
Unfortunately, that's not what we're getting down here. We're mostly getting the hyperactive busy-bodies from the cities. You know, the ones that move out to the country and then start complaining about the smell from the dairy farm down the road.
This happened here just last week. Some yankee bought a place across from my neighbors place back in the winter. My neighbors place is about 50 acres and the front 15 or so acres is in pasture. Over the summer, my neighbors pasture got about knee high. The yankee started asking some of us other neighbors why he didn't cut his grass. I explained a couple of things to him. One, it's a horse pasture; not a lawn. Two, that land belongs to him, is unrestricted and if he wants to pile up junk cars and let it grow up like a jungle, then that's his business.
not only that, but I would put my cooking, baking, gardening, sausage-making, canning and preserving right up there with anyone in the good old USA
If I give you my address, will you send me some samples? :~)
Dude! What the hell?!
I was thinking about posting a vanity about moving to South Carolina today.
I’m looking at the Anderson / Greenville / Spartanburg area of South Carolina, mostly because I’ll have a place to crash while I’m looking for a place of my own.
I’ve also got family in GA and TN.
I’ll be watching this thread carefully. :)
*looks at the date of this thread and realizes it was posted in 2006*
Uh.... Never mind.... :)
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