What is the north anyway? I live in Colorado, and couldn't imagine living anywhere else.
Have you ever lived anywhere else? I lived in Colorado more years than I care to remember and thought it was an awful place to live. The climate is horrible and the total lack of manners prevalent there was something I was completely unable to adapt to. If you practiced southern hospitality people suspected ulterior motives. Maybe its just one of those things..."you can take the girl out of the south but you can't take the south out of the girl." I am thankful to be back where barbecue is pork, tea is sweet and people talk right and are actually civil to strangers. Most folks go to church and filthy language is NOT the norm.
I'm not saying there aren't good people in Colorado because certainly there are. But in my experience they are the exception.