Miss Marmelstein, you moved from our beloved NYC to Alabama?!
I can’t imagine a more drastic contrast between cultures!
Even my girlfriend’s move from Italian Bay Ridge to rural, redneck Oregon isn’t aigret as the leap from The Big Apple to ‘bama!
From Feast Of Santa Rosalia to BBQ at a juke joint, from Hamilton! on B’dway to Nutcracker Suite at the local high school and Gino’s to Cracker Barrel.
I’m amazed, how did this take place?
Thanks!
Ed
P.S.By the way, I totally understand, our communist lesbian Governor is destroying Oregon and I’d love to move to a conservative state like Idaho or Alabama.
They stopped eating their young in Alabama, so you don’t have to worry about THAT anymore.
Where I live is gorgeous, full of crape myrtles in bloom along with magnolias and live oaks with sweeping Spanish moss. The people are lovely; there truly is a thing called southern hospitality. We are allowed to have chickens in our backyard here so I’m thinking of buying that Rhode Island Red I see wandering around the hardware store.
I never saw Hamilton so I don’t feel I’m missing anything. And I wouldn’t step foot in a Cracker Barrel when we have so many places in this city that serve real soul food and southern staples in a down home style that can truly be described using the word “rustic”.
But we have a beautiful, revitalized downtown situated on a bend in the river where you can get decent Italian food, good pizza and gyros. We are on the Civil Rights trail so we have lots of museums, 1 art museum and 1 literary outposting dedicated to a famed writer. I volunteer in several of these museums.
I love NYC and will return for visits because my family lives there. But I’m perfectly happy in a state that just outlawed abortion. The governor lives about 4 blocks from my house.