Posted: 2/19/2008 2:30:30 PM EDT
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Why do they move here, and then talk about why it is so great back in the north? Witness, many posts on this GD thread. Notice how many "damn" yankees post how bad GA and the south suck, but they live here. It is something I have never understood. http://www.ak47.net/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=676625&page=1&#-1 Gr |
| WELL .... I can officially say that I am a DAMN yankee ... I moved here 17 years ago this June from Maine. WHY did I decide to come to Ga? Good fucking question, but its got a simple answer. I was 13 years old the economy sucked asshole in Maine where my dad worked as a Property Maintenance Professional with a background in new home and remodeling construction and was offered a job and a place to stay by an Uncle already here in Ga. I finished with school for the year and we packed up our shit and moved here. Do I call Ga home .... no .... Maine is always home still, but do I want to move back to Maine and live ............ aint a snowballs chance in hell that place is too damn cold for too damn long and the women all wear flannel ( even in the summer ), Do I bitch and complain abour Ga, of course ... everyone does from time to time but for now this is the place where I hang my hat at night and I am glad that I do. |
| I am a damn Yankee as well, grew up in the south Chicago suburbs. There are positives and negatives everywhere you go. I am sick of hearing that people down here drive like crap. The fact is, people suck in every state you go! I would have to believe that most people who complain about living here do so because it is their first time away from "home." |
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I moved here from YankeeLand about three years ago. I will only say that it was the best move for me and my family that we have *ever* made. Oh, the wife and kids did this because I wanted to, I thought they were going to have a hard time adjusting. Hell no! They are doing more, achieving more and more active than they ever were up there. I can not tell you how much the "Southern" (read inferior by yankee standards) school systems challenge both my kids. They are working harder and more is expected of them than has ever been asked before -- and they are thriving. My wife is finally using her Masters degree working with autistic kids, and they have real friends that want to be with them. A hard thing to come by in Yankee Land. If anything I've had a hard time finding people of similar interest. But I'm working on that. I haven't read the GD thread yet, I really couldn't care less about their experience. You have to go to a place to live there, not bring your crap with you. //Off the soapbox, glad to be here and that is all. // |
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Wish I had a dollar for every time a guy from Ohio (seems like it's always Ohio) told me about how well he drives in the snow. Always amusing when I check out the national news and find out that there's a 60-car pileup, in the snow, in Ohio, or any other northern outpost. Let's have a thread about how well you northerners play football! 
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Not speaking inclusively, but SOME of it is that a lot of yankees are miserable, and they come down here and are still miserable just because they're miserable people. I was born here, but at 18 months I was taken hostage by my parents (mom from Alabama and dad from Pennsylvania) and ended up in Ohio. I had relatives there and they were mostly miserable. I went back about 10 years ago for a funeral and saw the state of the city. Bars on every corner and a few between, and lines around the block at the unemployment office. Well, those folks come south looking for jobs and were raised to be miserable and spread it. My opinion is just as we expect Mexicans to learn English, I expect Yankees to learn "southern". |
My Inlaws are not only yankees, but they are from Jersey! When I first meet them and they asked were I was from...I told them WV...they looked at my feet  YES WE WERE SHOES! There actually nice people..other then they yell all the damn time....and my father n law is scared to death of guns...so I always make sure to have a AR out when he comes over Thank God my wife was raised in MO  Mark thank u for makeing me spit gin and tonic on the laptop 
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Yankees, sheesh! Difference between a Yankee and damn Yankee - the Yankee goes home! Seriously - I was born in Queens ya'll. Lived in NJ, CT, MA, RI, IL, SC, TX, MI, PA, been in about 45 of the 50 states, Canada, Mexico and places over the pond. In spite of what most northerners think - there are stupid people everywhere. Want to see hillbillies - go to Michigan and look at some of the people making car parts and cars, the heck with West Virginia. Lots of snobs everywhere as well - yes even in Buckhead. What I have found it this - southerners seem to be less pretentious, more polite, manners are still taught in school, the women dress fine, heck - I even married a "Southern Belle" to get legal. If I could only get past the "chew talk"! |
Lol, I am from Maine as well. Don't miss the -0 temps, shoveling snow, driving on snow and ice, libtards, taxes, massholes, and blackflies. (I might have missed a few). |
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I was a military brat growing up and active duty for 8 yrs myself, so i have lived all over the place in my life. I settled in GA 10 yrs ago after separating from the military because my wife is born and raised here. Can't imagine being anywhere else now. I love the south and can't stand the north. I would fight for the south in a heartbeat if it came down to it 
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Don't get me started on NY, NJ, etc., etc., etc.!!! 
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Tread easy you simple southern fuckers! I moved here from Ohio, 15 years ago. I needed work and I had a lot of family in the area. I met my wife in Georgia (she's from Ohio, too) and have made a decent living here (until the last year or so). All-in-all, I just don't see me ever wanting to move back. One thing that I do miss about the North. Pheasants! Bird hunting sucks in Georgia, unless you have a ton of money to spend on a Plantation. |
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Born and raised in Ohio. Why do I get into it with natives????????????? Basically, it's the whole "Welcome to the south, start lock stepping or get the fuck out!" I have a guy at work that just gets under my skin. If you don't love NASCAR, UGA, country music, and drive a pickup, well you just made his "bad list". Look I don't mind living in GA, but if you're going to go out of your way to rub my nose in it about being from up north, expect me to cop an attitude back. |
Forgive us if historically speaking, when ya'll show up, we get screwed.  GR |
Hey I have a live and let live policy. If you want to force me to watch the NASCAR race, I'll force some F1 or 24 Hours of LeMans on you. Rub UGA in my face, well let's just see what current active coach has five undefeated seasons, and two national championships while his school was an independent. Crank up the country? I won't bitch, but you better not bitch when I crank up some Sex Pistols, Rammones, Black Flag, Misfits, or New York Dolls. As far as driving a pickup? Well I own one, but I haven't driven it in three years, and I'm thinking about getting rid of it. |
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No, Mark, you've adapted well to the area and have picked up southern ways from what I've seen. You treat people well, but don't want your toes stepped on. You help people out but don't get crapped on. you pay your own way and don't gripe about it. Same with Lawman734. I wouldn't have known yuns were from up north. The problem I have with northern immigrants, is many come down here and want to change this place to what they left. They vote, so they vote for things they wanted up north, and eventually there is no difference in the south and the north. But to us indigenous folks, there will always be a difference. It's up to the northerners to pick up our ways, not change the place to their liking. Yankees think the flag is important to stupid minded people, but to southern folks it's representative of independence, not slavery. It's about freedom in the face of tyrannical government. But because blacks take it to represent slavery and racism, and the KKK misuses it as if they represent the south, it's been removed from a lot of places. |
| I was born and raised mostly here. Except for a 5 year stint my Dad was transferred to Jersey for his job while I was just going into middle school. Jersey was enought for him to quit a 200k a year job and move back home. For me.....it was traumatic.....I still have nightmares and flashbacks. |
Hey... we used to be neighbors. Uncle Same moved me down here about 20 years ago, little southern Belle kept me here. No way in hell would I move back, and I hate NY. I do miss the summer weather up there and people doing things quickly and efficiently, but all in all, I prefer the south. |
Most of my clients affectionately refer to me as a Damn Yankee and I have not let them down. I moved here in '93 and I Ain’t Leavin’
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O.K. since everyone is admitting to it, I am a damn yankee too!!!  it was the navys fault they took my grandpa and removed him from the great state of Ga. and when it was all over ......... any ways I lived in Ohio for 12 years before my mom and dad moved back here. i went back once and i don't miss anything. as a side note some folks heard me talking and asked me if i was from texas now my Georgia peach, she done went and converted me I am glad I am from here |
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Theres more rednecks in southern Illinois then Georgia. I prefer to call us northerners the Borg. (Reference for Southern and Northern nerds alike). "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile." |
I won't agree with that statement. There's a difference in redneck and southern for one thing. Another is, I've been through Lancaster, Ohio. They have a statue of Sherman pointing a sword to the south. As a kid I wanted so bad to tear it down. That'd keep me from feeling at home there. (Keep in mind my dad is from Pennsylvania, so it wasn't just learnt to me as a kid- it was bred in me as part of the dirt down here )
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