Calling all Southerners

[epchick]

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.

[Elephant Walk]

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.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

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.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by epchick

Call me naive or whatever . . . .

Okay.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

This isn't about city or non-city (with the understanding that people know what constitutes a "city") except that certain conditions and criminogenic environments have the potential to increase with increases and other changes in populations. But people do get killed in Small Town, USA just as they do in Big City, USA---just as they get killed in Smaller City, USA.

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.

[AGDLynn]

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.))

[DSTRen13]

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

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by AGDLynn

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

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!

[AGDLynn]

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.

[summer_gphib]

Originally Posted by AGDLynn

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.))

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

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by StateFratMaster

I've lived in Cary my whole life. It is a suburb of Raliegh,NC. . . . 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.

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 ), I'm not sure how you get there in 30 minutes.

[DreamfulSpirit]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

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 ), 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!