Who ever said that they had anticatholicism in Louisville-
this is a VERY Catholic town... even on Wikipedia it says how large the Catholic population is here. It's mostly due to the fact we have strong Irish and German roots. There are 28 Catholic schools here even. I would be shocked if people were rude about religion here.

Also- I have to say a negative to Memphis. As well as Birmingham Alabama....
However I lOVE CHarleston SC

If you're still looking for a good city, I would suggest Austin, TX. I think it has all the benefits of a big city, which still preserving a lot of small-town southern hospitality and charm. It has great school, good jobs, and it BEAUTIFUL. It was also recently rated as the #2 best city to live in the U.S.! It's not as traditionally southern as SC or GA, but it has a great mix of everyone and I plan on raising my own family there.

We're thinking moving to Huntsville...

I was surprised when I encountered it firsthand as a Catholic by one of my coworkers at a major bank. I didn't think I would bump into it in L'ville for precisely the reasons you state but I was wrong. This was back in the 80s and my coworker did not grow up in L'ville, but was raised in Appalachia. Not that her origins gave her license to spew her rhetoric...

Exactly. One might be discriminated against for NOT being Catholic in Louisville, but Louisville was, and is, so inbred Catholic it hurts. This is coming from someone who grew up there, left for Boston and Hartford, then moved back for about 10 more years! I also endured an Archdiocese of Louisville education for 13 years (yes, including pre-school.)

Southerners
 

:)Nashville, Huntsville, or even Birmingham! All three of these have a great location, great schools in certain areas, and plenty of activities for families.

Just got back from Huntsville. It seems like a big yet small city, esp. compared to Atlanta.

Went downtown Friday and Saturday nights...both were practically deserted. Good that there weren't traffic jams, lol. Didn't seem to be much shopping.

Granted that we didn't go into a lot of residential areas but most houses we saw were ranch-style, built in the 60-70's. Scary that a lot had burglar bars on them.

Drove out to Madison, AL and loved it!! Could see myself living there.
Decatur and Athens were okay...

Checked out Cummings Research Park area..nifty looking company buildings.

Back to Huntsville...other than the historic districts downtown, I didn't see any cute boutique, hang-out type parts of town like the Virginia-Highland pat of Atlanta.

http://www.virginiahighland.com/

I live in Raleigh, well actually...in the suburb of Cary. I grew up here and I can't imagine calling any other place home!!

I have a question after reading this whole thread. I told my mom that I was thinking of moving "to the South" (yeah I don't consider El Paso the south, I barely consider it part of TX...lol) and she cautioned me automatically.

I guess my mom's had some bad experiences (of course this was back in the late 70's, early 80's) traveling in those areas.

I'm like my grandmother---i'm more open to visiting places i've never been. My mom told me that she and my grandmother visited Louisville (i wanna say it was in the mid- 90s, but I'm not sure) and my grandmother wanted to take the bus & just ride it to see where it took her. The front desk person told her it wasn't safe.

Call me naive or whatever, but is it still like that in many places? I know all cities have their bad areas, but I'm used to a city that, even in the "bad" areas, you can still walk around and feel relatively safe.

I mean, any city/state has its bad places.

But I'd feel much safer in the Delta of Arkansas than I would in any borough of New York.

Yeah, and I think a lot of it has to do with where you're more familiar - a lot of Northerners will probably feel safer in the North, Southerners in the South.

I always told people how I used to feel safe walking through Boston late at night/early in the morning, walking all the way from Boston Harbor to the Brookline area. I would get a few stares from people who weren't familiar with Boston, but for me, I had a high comfort level.

Okay. :D

It's interesting you bring this up, I was just talking about it with my wife recently. When I started law school, we moved from the Boston area (Brookline, which is basically in Boston) to a small-ish town. There's a convenience store right down the street from us, and I walked down there around 10 pm. It's only about a 5 minute walk from my house, and there were no cars or people out on the road, but for some reason, the quietness made me feel more nervous. Now, my town is extremely safe, with very low rates of violent crime, but I think I'd just gotten so used to Boston, where there are people out and about almost 24/7, that the lack of crowds made me nervous.

You Know You're From Georgia If
 

This is probably posted somewhere but I wanted to share it again. It is SOOO true!


YOU KNOW YOUR FROM GA IF:
- you never drink Pepsi....Coke is THE drink
- you're not allergic to pollen...cause if you were you'd be dead
- you only crave alcohol and chick-fil-a on sundays
- when a single snow flake falls the ENTIRE STATE shuts down
- you LOVE sweet tea, mashed potatoes, biscuits, and all southern comfort foods
- you're a UGA or GT fan...NEVER both
- you know everything goes better with ranch dressing
- you've ever had a conversation that went like this:
"you wanna coke?"
"yeah"
"what kind?"
"dr. pepper"
- you call it a buggy, not a shopping cart
- y'all IS a word
- krispy kreme dounuts are the only kinda dounuts you eat
- you know what a 'DAWG' is
- you use sir or ma'am if there is a remote possibility that the person you're talking to is at least 30 minutes older than you
- you can properly pronounce Chickamauga, DeKalb, Dahlonega, Smyrna, Buena Vista (not like the one in CA or Fla), Valdosta, Okefenokee, and La Fayette.
P.S.. Atlanta = ADD-LANNA not AT-LANT-A
- you know that the true value of a parking space is not determined by the distance to the door, but by the availability of shade
- you measure distance in minutes (such as, I live 5 minutes from my office)
- a Mercedes Benz isn't a status symbol, but a Chevy Silverado Extended Bed Crew Cab is
-you learned how to shoot a gun before you learned how to multiply
- you say "tuna fish sandwich"
- you don't appreciate it, you preciate it
YOU KNOW YOUR FROM THE ATL IF:
- when driving downtown your directions always start with "go down peachtree" and include "turn at the waffle house"
- you know what 400, I-85, I-285, I-75, and I-20 are and you know which direction they all go
- you know NEVER to take the highway during rush hour traffic which lasts all day
- you've climbed stone moutain and seen the laser show more than 1 time
- you've shopped at lenox and phipps
- you can say PONCE DE LEON AVENUE correctly - PONCE DAY LEEEE-ON
- streets are ALWAYS shut down for construction
- you know what PIB, JCB, FIB, MLK, PDK, and the "grady curve" are
-You still call hi fi buys amp. "Lakewood"
- you still call the airport hartsfield.. and got mad when they added the "Jackson"
- not flying delta is a sin
- someone says "king" and/or "queen" you immediately think of office buildings
- you wonder why all the tourists/ visitors always try to pronounce Ponce de Leon with an accent
- you can definately tell when someone is not from here because of the way they drive
- you can get anywhere by using the big chicken
- when you drive 45 min out of your way to avoid rush hour
- you know that the peachtree street, peachtree road, peachtree industrial, and 141 are all the same road but eventually they split and 141 becomes peachtree parkway
- you see a drug transaction right outside of turner field
- you've seen the fireworks and the tree lightings at Lennox
- you have a season pass to 6 flags
- you know that 55mph really means 75mph
- the falling of one raindrop casues the cities drivers to forget ALL traffic rules
- you know at least 5 different ways to work; none of them ideal
- youve thought about gettin a blow up doll to put in your passenger seat to be able to drive in the HOV lane
- you never go 55mph on the 'watermelon 500 or georgia 400'
- you've eaten at the VARSITY more than one time

((Let me know if you want an explanation of something
, lol.))

Is it sad that post makes me miss Atlanta? I wanna go home ... :(

The scary thing is I'm not from Atlanta, but according to the list perhaps I should be? Not sure I know the proper pronunciation of Buena Vista for ATL though.

- you use sir or ma'am if there is a remote possibility that the person you're talking to is at least 30 minutes older than you

Love it!

Buena Vista

GA = Bew (like few) na Vista
Fla = Bwaina (like Braina) Vista

There's also Vienna - ( I HATE HATE Vienna Sausages!)
GA - VI enna
Austria - VE nna

Cairo
GA = K ro (as in Karo syrup)
Egypt = K eye ro


There's prob a couple of more but those are the ones I can think;)

Ohh...one more!!! And I have to think about this one before I pronounce it each time.

Taliaferro- The local pronunciation of the county's name is somewhat unusual, since it is not phonetically similar to its spelling. The pronunciation sounds like "tolliver" (it rhymes with the common male name "Oliver").

On a side note, ever wonder why Colonel is pronounced kurnal? www.dictionary.com

[kur-nl] illustrates one source for the apparent vagaries of English spelling: divergence between a word's orthographic development and its established pronunciation. In this case, English borrowed from French two variant forms of the same word, one pronounced with medial and final /l/[l], and a second reflecting dissimulation of the first /l/[l] to /r/[r]. After a period of competition, the dissimulated form triumphed in pronunciation, while the spelling colonel became the orthographic standard.

That's quite shocking considering how overwhelmingly catholic Louisville is.

I've lived in Cary my whole life. It is a suburb of Raliegh,NC. There is a great mix of people who have always lived there and a bunch of transplants from the midwest mostly. The housing consists of homes ranging from low-mid range houses up to million dollar houses. Cary is located in Wake county and has some of the best schools in NC. Cary is one of the top twenty safest cities in America. It was featured in National Geographic. The people here are great and there is alot to do and it is a great place to raise a family. UNC-chapel hill, NC state, Wake Forest, and Duke are all close. Wake Forest is the longest drive and it's only thirty minutes away. That is good for kids that are growing up. Cary is Heaven on earth. I couldn't choose a better place to live.

lol. That almost made me miss Add-Lanna. I love how everything in the Morrow area is named Mt. Zion. LOL.

Given that Wake Forest (the University, as opposed to Wake Forest the town) has been in Winston-Salem for the last 53 years, and given that Winston-Salem is over 100 miles from the Containment Area for Relocated Yankees, aka Cary (sorry, I couldn't resist :p), I'm not sure how you get there in 30 minutes.

I live in Cary...well right on the Cary/Apex border. Wake Forest (the town, not university) is about a good 45 minute or 1 hour drive away. A friend of mine lives there...and I only get to see her every so often because of how far away she lives. I love it here though! I've lived here most of my life, and I call it home!

I forgot to mention Jackson and Mobile.

Mobile is one of my favorite places in the South, weirdly enough. I suggest checking it out if you want to live near the ocean.

I'm not sure what my infatuation with Jackson is, but it's also a great town.

I remember when most of what is now Cary was farmland. (Yikes, I'm getting old. :eek:) I just never can resist a dig at the "newer" Cary.

As for Wake Forest, the older buildings of what is now Southeastern Baptist Seminary were originally the buildings of Wake Forest College. And I'm sure you'll agree that you can't get to Wake Forest University in 30 minutes, which is what StateFratMaster said.

Yeah that was a definite mental lapse on my part. It was real early in the morning and i was tired but couldn't sleep. lo siento.

I just had to :eek: at this statement. 45 min-1 hour is too far to visit a friend? Yikes. It's obviously cause I've lived here in El Paso for so long but i'd love to be close that close to a city (and Las Cruces does NOT count). I get excited when I get to Tucson in 4 hrs. lol

Mobile
 

Beautiful beaches and Mardi Gras!