I lived in the South for awhile. I found it to be a land of extremes. It's filled with some of the most honest, decent, hard-working, examples of Christian goodness on the planet, AND some of the slimiest, no-good, calculating, vicious eruptions out of Satan's @ss.
BOTH. Living in the same place, at the same time. It was very weird, and very hard to deal with, not having a score card.
And then there's the weather... Holy Moly...
Sounds like the northeast where I am - filled with good people and evil people and terrible weather. If you want mild weather, don’t live in America. Try England.