Luddly Neddite
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Doncha just love the sound of southern crickets?
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Any southerners or rw's willing to address the valid points made in the OP?
Start with the hungry and homeless elderly and children and move on to the southern governors fighting against jobs and Medicaid expansion for the people who need them the most.
Any southerners or rw's willing to address the valid points made in the OP?
Man, I don't know what you people are arguing about, anyone living north if Jacksonville, Florida is a damn Yankee!
Soon as I retire I'll be heading south !!
The saying nowadays is, make your fortune in the north, then retire in the south.
Incredibly low real estate prices (you should see the freaking mansion my brother bought in Texas last year for $279K !!!! Absolutely beyond belief !!
Great weather ! Low taxes ! Great food !
Absolutely cannot wait to say goodbye to the liberal snobs and shithole weather, taxes, prices !!!
Yeah baby !!!![]()
Did you ever stop to think that maybe there's a reason why things are cheaper in the South?
Sure, but what do I care ? I'm just happy that we have diversity. We have places where libs can go to fulfill many of their nanny-state dreams (although they would be even happier if they kept going north to Canada) and we have places where the rest of us can go to be as little effected by government regulations and taxes as possible.![]()
Any southerners or rw's willing to address the valid points made in the OP?
Start with the hungry and homeless elderly and children and move on to the southern governors fighting against jobs and Medicaid expansion for the people who need them the most.
Feel free to pity the south if you want. I love living here.
While there may be more poverty, the lower cost of living means it is an easier place to be poor. I have access to some top quality health care, and my insurance dollars go farther. I make a nationally competitive salary in my field, and with the lower cost of living I can enjoy it and still save for retirement. Smoking is a choice people make, it is not my problem.
But it is not just those things, but the genuine friendliness I enjoy down here. I have travelled and worked all over the US. And there are friendly people everywhere. But no where has the volume of smiling friendly people you find in the south. People wave as you drive by. They chat in the checkout lines at the grocery store. When I was coming back down from working up north I could always tell when I was "Home" again. If I stopped for gas and a cold drink and the clerk just said, "$32.00 please", I wasn't close. When they said, "Hi, how ya doin? Sure is a pretty day (or cold day or whatever) That'll be $32.00. Drive safe now", I knew I was closer to home.
Pity us if you want. I'll take little old ladies saying "Bless her heart", tall glasses of sweet tea, the smell of magnolia blossoms, college football tailgating, and miles of dirt roads over a slightly higher standard of living for everyone else.
This southern man says ....
I've lived in the South.
One thing I learned is that even the meanest son of a bitch would at least look me square in the eye.
Not like the Liberal North.
Feel free to pity the south if you want. I love living here.
While there may be more poverty, the lower cost of living means it is an easier place to be poor. I have access to some top quality health care, and my insurance dollars go farther. I make a nationally competitive salary in my field, and with the lower cost of living I can enjoy it and still save for retirement. Smoking is a choice people make, it is not my problem.
But it is not just those things, but the genuine friendliness I enjoy down here. I have travelled and worked all over the US. And there are friendly people everywhere. But no where has the volume of smiling friendly people you find in the south. People wave as you drive by. They chat in the checkout lines at the grocery store. When I was coming back down from working up north I could always tell when I was "Home" again. If I stopped for gas and a cold drink and the clerk just said, "$32.00 please", I wasn't close. When they said, "Hi, how ya doin? Sure is a pretty day (or cold day or whatever) That'll be $32.00. Drive safe now", I knew I was closer to home.
Pity us if you want. I'll take little old ladies saying "Bless her heart", tall glasses of sweet tea, the smell of magnolia blossoms, college football tailgating, and miles of dirt roads over a slightly higher standard of living for everyone else.
I've lived in the South.
One thing I learned is that even the meanest son of a bitch would at least look me square in the eye.
Not like the Liberal North.
Where do people look at you in the North? Do you have breasts?
Any southerners or rw's willing to address the valid points made in the OP?
Doncha just love the sound of southern crickets?
Anything would be better than becoming a smug, arrogant liberal. It sucks here due to the high percentage of them. I am planning an escape plan to down yonder. I lived in the south and every once and a while meet a southerner and it makes me want to move.Pity you if I want? I don't pity you, I pity the third world lifestyle that Southerners allow themselves to be subjected to. As Oliver Wendell Holmes once said Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over. but-----but Southerners don't. The South has a lot to offer, so why-----why in the world would Southerners allow themselves to be poor, fat, uneducated and unhealthy? It doesn't have to be that way.