FReeper looking for help - I want to relocate to the south

So as the title says, I'm looking for some help in relocating to South Carolina. Mostly with just getting a job; I shouldn't have much trouble finding a place to live. I'm in Brooklyn, NY and work in the security industry; a fire and life safety director to be specific. We're responsible for handling any emergency that happens in our building until the incident commander takes over. It's a huge responsibility. The lack of communication and general lack of professional behavior from a few managers that we work with has really soured me on the job as a whole, and I want out.

I'm looking to get back in to office administration. I'm more comfortable in an office, instead of being on alert for basically my whole shift, having to run to the fire command station every time an alarm happens. I do have some years as an administrative assistant; it's been a while, but it's not like I'd be going in blind and getting thrown to the wolves.

The security company I work for is terrible - you're basically on-call 24/7, and might be sent to another building, even if you're not certified for it. That's a big no-no as far as the fire department goes. Like if you're certified for a hotel, but you're in an office building, they want someone with the proper certification for that office building. I know it's also blowing them up, but they're flying by the seat of their pants, paying out overtime in cash. It's extremely poorly run, and they're taking on contracts they can't properly staff. It sucks and it's depressing, I'm not at all happy here.

I'm more than willing to learn new things, like software and skills. I'm not comfortable with making travel arrangements though; last time I went anywhere was to visit my friend in Charleston last summer, and that's why I want to move. South Carolina would be preferable, but I'm open to the whole of the south. Generally better weather, definitely nicer people, and a lower cost of living. It's also more aligned with my personal beliefs, which is why I'm on here despite having lived in Brooklyn for most of my 37 years.

Any help would be hugely appreciated, as you'd be helping a fellow FReeper achieve their goals and restart life.

Only a relatively small percentage of the Southern population got off the boat in the South. Most migrated from the North during the last 400 years.

What hubris. I actually did laugh out loud. Bless your heart.

Please provide your research for this “fact.” I have attended a multitude of genealogical conferences and a common seminar topic is immigration routes. North to South was fairly uncommon, so your claim that “most” of the Southern families are made up from Northern stock is just fantasy on your part. The majority of those who arrived prior to the Revolution were immigrants that arrived in the southern port cities at Virginia, Wilmington, Charleston and further south in Georgia. This includes the massive number of Scots who arrived in North Carolina and Georgia after Culloden in 1745 and the Highland Clearances that followed.

Following the Revolution, the majority of migration out of the Northeast went due west through the Ohio Valley and into the Great Lakes region. Yes, some traveled down into the Cumberland Gap, but it certainly was not the majority of migrants as you claim. Mostly this was due to the conditions of roads, which south of Maryland were very swampy and practically impassible, not to mention most fertile Southern land had already been snapped up by earlier arrivals. Land claims were being handed out to war veterans, and for those in the North, most of that was going into the lands west of Pennsylvania, while most of the North Carolina and Virginia veterans were given grants in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Any Yankees that arrived in the South after the Civil War are called a lot of things (most not appropriate for this forum), but they are not considered true Southerners, even if they stayed and raised families. Sorry to break such a painful truth to you, but there it is. And you are correct in that current migration patterns from both the destroyed economies in the rustbelt Northeast and the illegal invasion from Central America are now overrunning the Southern states and have been since the 1980s, doing even more damage than Sherman did. That isn’t even in question. So your wife’s grandmother, your sister’s husband, etc. — not Southerners. Never have been and never will be.

WOW! You're not going to accept them under any circumstances!

Okay, I don't know the percentages of Southerners whose ancestors arrived in the North, but I do know that most Southerners descend from Northerners who migrated to the South in the past 400 years.

Oh! And I forgot. My son-in-law's father's family migrated from Connecticut to New York to Nebraska to California and thence to the South. And his mother's family were South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. And he was born in Georgia. I don't know how to break the news to him that he's not a Southerner. What shall I do? Oh the horror!

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