Only an insane person would move Down East, my home. It’s a hole, as my dear mother would say. Like the Bronx of North Carolina.
I presently live in the Yankee colony of Wake County, in the Central part of the state. It’s where I teach and make a fairly good living.
But note: I don’t hate Yankees. I lived in New Jersey for six years while courting my wife, and had a wonderful time. The people of New Jersey (and NYC) are friendly and pretty funny, truth be told. I was pleasantly surprised.
The difference is we here are inheriting the losers, who couldn’t make a go of it in their home state. They move here, bring their loser attitudes, and give all Southerners the wrong impression of Yankees, particularly those from the NE. I am forever explaining that one shouldn’t measure Yankees by the pitiful unemployable immature freaks we have pouring into the area today. They are pathetic, though.
Southerners assume if it’s a Yankee, it’s a loser, fairly or not.
My wife, by the way, is Cuban, not NJ-esque.
He spoke it up like it was heaven on earth and he did live all his life in an upscale prime $ection of the NY suburbs.