I used the term "clueless southerners"...as a RETORT to a previuous poster who slammed Yankees.
Just doin' my best to have a "fair and balanced" thread....
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You southerners SSSUUURRREEEEE are thin skinned!
heheheh you can dish it out....but ya can't take it.
Your hypothetical stinks.
Regarding property and firearms: I'm a Yankee who lives in a small town of 5200. I got a state forest for my back yard. I can drive 1 1/2 miles to my outdoor shooting range (free). I can join one of several rod / reel / rifle clubs.
If I was a lawbreaker I could poach all the deer / turkey I could stuff in my fridge right from the deck off the back of my house.
I can walk 1/4 miles into the woods behind my property and catch all the Brookies I can stuff into a bucket.
My neighbors: Awesome... we have block parties.... back yard bon-fires that the whole volunteer fire department goes too. :)
No one in my neighborhood even bothers to lock our doors to our houses or cars....
Our resident State Trooper and our two local cops handle everything with skill and professionalism.
I COULD hop on a train and commute to NYC if that were my choice.
Weather: I dress appropriately. I don't know what backwoods rat hole you come from but we do have 5-1/2 months of warm / hot weather here. We actually have a springtime...and a fall season.....and only have to suffer through about 4 to 5 weeks of the TYPICAL southern stifling humidity that you have to deal with for 4 to 5 months.
Food: I can drive 20 minutes into New Haven and eat at some of the best restaurants in the North East. The farther from NYC one travels... the worst the pizza is. Pan pizza?
HAHAHAH give me a break! You've never had pizza until you've eaten thin crust NY style pizza.....so don't even GO there....You want "ethnic" foods... New Haven has it all.
Bud, face it... you ARE a clueless Southerner.
You're view of "Yankees" is so myopic it's not even based on reality...... just hear-say.
"It would take me all of five seconds to decide to stay in the South."
Do me a big favor.... stay put....right where you are.
You've got my word! I will stay right here!
I'm married to a girl who was born in Brooklyn, but who has learned over the years to appreciate a lot about the South. I have spent a lot of time in New York City and the surrounding area. Much of what I wrote was dripping with sarcasm, which was obviously lost on you.
Allow me to comment. I have been to New Haven, AND the rest of your state, including Groton, where I had the misfortune to spend two years. New Haven is a stinkhole, as far as I am concerned, and your 13 percent tax rate sucks too! If you lived in New London you would DAMN sure have to lock your door. Who gives a rat's *ss about your ethnic foods? Southern Food is some of the best in the world. I would rather eat Crawfish etoufee or Gumbo in New Orleans any day, than the crap they call food in New York.
I have traveled up north and around most of this world, and would rather stay in Texas and the South than anywhere else. If you think the South is so bad, then please explain why all of your Yankee brothers are fighting each other to move down HERE!?
Well, I tried to stay out of this. I grew up near Charlotte, NC. After moving around the country some I wound up living just north of Johnson City, NY. I too really enjoyed the honesty of the people there. I DO have my favorite story about driving in snow to tell.
I was living in temporary quarters (hotel) in April of 1991 in Binghamton, NY. I came out of the hotel to find something white on the ground but the maintenance guy was having trouble keeping the snow blower running through it and I had to break it off the windshield of the car. I recognized that this ICE was the same thing that got called 'snow' in the south so I took it VERY easy driving into the office that day. I realized that Hwy 17 was very slick as I went under the bridge of the Johnson City exit. 10 minutes later, those yankees that can drive in the snow decided to have a 27 car meeting at that point on the highway. I got to work safely however.
The moral to this story is that even southerners can drive in SNOW, but Yankees can't drive in the ice any better than we southerners do.
Amen brother. Clueless Yankees they say............God help us all.
God is a Yankee by the way and we both know it. But let the rebels have their fun anyway :-)
I was about to write something very similar to what you have stated so elequently. I can be in mid-town Manhattan in 1.5 hours or I can be fishing in some of the best trout streams anywhere in the country in a matter of minutes by simply waking out my back-door, or driving 45 minutes east to the Housie or an hour west to the Esopus, Beaverkill, Willowemac, etc. And on the way, I will probably pass as many redneck homesteads (with outhouses and ornimental junk cars) as one would find in East TN or Alabama.
Getting a concealed carry permit is no big deal, and outside of NYC, I can probably carry a weapon into more places under New York Law than I can under Texas Law. And despite the restrictive gun laws in NYC or perhaps because of them, the crime rate is one of the lowest of any big city in the country. Indeed, I challenge anyone to name a big city south of the Mason-Dixon line, with a crime rate lower than NYC.
With the exception of New Orleans, I have yet to find a truely exceptional restaurant in the south. There are a lot of good restaurants and even pretty good restaurants, but not in the numbers you find in the northeast and nothing that rises to the level of exceptional or outstanding.
Although there are certainly places in the north where the summer starts on July 3rd and ends August 15th, in the Hudson Valley where I live, we generally have short sleave weather from mid-April until mid-October. And when we do have snow, we deal with it and keep going, unlike the people from the south who become "deer in a headlight" when they see that first flake (I have to laugh at the poster from Atlanta who doesn't know the difference between a dusting and a blizzard).
I don't know whether northerners or southerners are smarter or whether there is even a difference worthy of debate. I do know that when I went to college for a year down south, I didn't have to study all that hard to get A's and when I transferred to a real college in the north, I had to bust my butt to pull C's. I also note that most of the top colleges and universities, as ranked by various publications, are in the North and in California, not in the south, with a large number of the very best schools in NY, PA, MA, and ME.
And if southerners are so nice and friendly, why are there so many southern posts on this thread bashing northerners for no other reason than we talk funny?
Do us a bigger one and stay put yourself, especially when we kick New England out of the Union as our thank-you for the Civil War and the Gilded Age ripoff, and redraw the boundary of the United States up the middle of the Hudson River to the Croton River and then over to the Connecticut state line, all the way up the New York line to Lake Champlain .....and we keep Bedloe's and Ellis Island, and you guys get Fire Island and Riker's Island, Longg Guyland, and Ted Kennedy's favorite U-boat proving grounds.
Sound like a deal? Great! Say hello to your new fellow-citizens in New Brunswick for us.
My property tax on a 2,400+ sq. ft. home (with air conditioning, btw), is less than $800 a YEAR.
I'm staying right where I am, too.
I have all that you have and it doesn't cost me $5,000 a year in property taxes.
nuf said to "taxed2death"