Lady, you and BoobStuckInMichgan or whatever his name is have done nothing but trash the North this entire thread so please save the 'more class than Yankees' crap. If you all hate the North so much then get the hell and stay the hell out. The interstate has Southbound lanes as well as Northbound ones. Keep your rebel rump in Dixie and you won't have to worry about rubbing shoulders with us racist, bustling, crowded Yankees. I'm not sure what you would find to complain about though.
Keep your Dixie. I spent over 9 years on active duty in the Navy and almost all of it was spent in the South. Want to know what I thought of it? It was OK. The people were nice enough. The weather wasn't too bad though I do like a change of season. All the places had the same kinds of bars and restaurants and entertainment. South Carolina and Florida and Mississippi were all peas from the same pod it seems to me. Nothing bad. Nothing to write home about, either. If I had to sum up what I thought about my time in Dixie in one word, that word would be apathy. It's just the place where I did my time and then went home.
I'm sorry you were apathetic. Spending your off duty time in bars and restaurants being homesick must not have been fun. Of course, if Dixie were so blah, why did you spend nine years there?
Where was your curiosity or interest in the areas where you were stationed? Hopefully you toured some of the old forts, battlegrounds, plantations, museums, and gardens in those states. Was the local architecture not of interest to you? Did you not venture inland to see the mountains, forests, swamps, and boiling springs? Were you not captivated by the beauty of South Carolina's coastal marshes or the coral reefs in southern Florida or the white sand beaches in the Pensacola area?
That's not what you said in 1861. Make up your mind.
I do not, nor have I ever lived in the northeast. Nor do I intend to so you don't have to worry about me ever having to get my rump out. I have lived in the midwest but thats a whole nuther world. Oh, and by the way, we do have seasons here. Summer and February. And you have been trashing the south pretty good, too.