Funny. That's this Yankee's complaint about "townies/flatlanders/cityfolk, etc" who move out here and want to bring the city with them. I don't need, nor want Ann Arbor to expand 20 miles North.
"Funny. That's this Yankee's complaint about 'townies/flatlanders/cityfolk, etc' who move out here and want to bring the city with them. I don't need, nor want Ann Arbor to expand 20 miles North."
It just so happens being from Florida, I saw them from the getgo, and they were universally from Noo Yawk, so I associate the accent with the behavior we both dislike. Heck, even a special name has attaced to them in the South--carpetbaggers--though damnYankees will do in a pinch.
However, as we've discussed before, there are certainly plenty of Yankees I'd be happy to have in the neighborhood, even marrying my daughter, and that includes Yankees whose accents are like nails on a chalkboard to one who spent years in a nest of damnYankees. It's the folks who insist the world must do things different to accommodate their needs and help them make a quick buck that annoy the living hell out of me.