Questions for Northerners by Southerners or vice-versa in the USA?

[nighttowll]

As a Northerner who moved to the deep South, I can answer that. Everyone we met when we moved was gracious and kind. There was never any hostility at all. They went out of their way to help us, and to make us feel at home. One of my dearest friends is a native southerner, whom I keep in touch with even though I now live in N. Mn.

There was never any anti Catholic sentiments at all. However, there were very few Catholic churches. For example, there was one in our town, and some counties didn't have any! The main churches were, Church of Christ, Baptist, and Methodist in that order. Our next town from us didn't have a Catholic Church.

I think those ideas that you are asking about are outdated and not an issue, at least to us. We felt completely at home and accepted.

Yes, completely agree with this, and we only have one Catholic Church in a town of a couple hundred thousand. Also, one Catholic school that only goes through grade 8. Most of the Catholic kids move to the other religious private schools for highscool, and no one thinks anything about it.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Who drives better?

 

[Disney Bobby]

Southerners, does the stereo type of the South being less kind to Northerners who move there still hold true to a point or is that more of an out dated myth? Also is there still an anti Catholic sentiment in most places or is that just a rarity in specific areas of the South? Thanks.

They still got Jesus, so we are ok with it. Everybody is fine with the Jewish folk too, but we have to go our separate ways for Easter and the month of December. Santa Claus is still pretty big here, so even many non-Christians participate on some level because their school age children don't want to be left out. Everything else gets the side eye and generally accepted as a cult, but fall into the "to each their own" category. Don't care what your Pope thinks though, so if you come over to my home to visit, don't start acting like we should listen to him. This is Jesus' house.

 

[Minnesota!]

Ok here we go tornados.

Wake up midnight to go to the bathroom. Lay back down only to hear a siren. Great. Gets phone out. Opens weather channel. Finds Tornado Warning. Sounds like tornado is south of town. I live north of town. Ok. Next step pinpoint tornado. Go to local news station. Nothing. No coverage. Try Ryan Hall Yall on YouTube. Nothing. No coverage. Finally find random storm chaser live streaming coverage of storm. Confirm, yes tornado is south of me moving away. Feel good staying upstairs in bed for now, but multiple tornadoes possible with storms, so not comfortable going back to sleep just yet. Need to keep watching live blogger until main storm is past. 30 minutes later still watching. Ok 40 minutes later, main “red” storm past. Siren off, ok to go back to bed at least until the next wave in a few hours.

“Day” (night) in the life of a southerner living in a tornado prone area!

Go through that in the upper midwest, too. Unnerving, for sure, at night! The last 2 storms we have had at night, a tree has fallen. Super scary to HEAR it crack and not know which tree, which way it is falling, and what damage has been done until first light.

 

[nighttowll]

Go through that in the upper midwest, too. Unnerving, for sure, at night! The last 2 storms we have had at night, a tree has fallen. Super scary to HEAR it crack and not know which tree, which way it is falling, and what damage has been done until first light.

Oh, gosh! Trees falling! That honestly scares me more than a tornado. Thankfully, we don’t have any big trees around our house that could fall on it.

 

[Minnesota!]

Oh, gosh! Trees falling! That honestly scares me more than a tornado. Thankfully, we don’t have any big trees around our house that could fall on it.

I hate it. We have a giant old tree in our backyard that is on its last limbs. Last week when I heard the crack in the middle of the night, I figured it was finally coming down. Nope - neighbors tree that straddles the fence. We have a GIANT pine tree right next to our house, the giant tree in the middle of the yard, 2 maples out front, and then 2 black walnuts in the back, backyard. All look a little tipsy during the storms.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

That beach one really hits home. It's not even a southern thing. Sand in everything is the primary reason why I hated the beach as a kid and avoid it as an adult. We had a house down the shore growing up and beach passes that we used no less than 3x per week for the entire summer. I currently live about an hour from the beach and my kids have never had a beach vacation or even a beach weekend. We may go down for the day and explore some of the other stuff in the area or hit one of the public beaches in the cooler months to go shelling, but that's it. Even pretty blue water doesn't help...Florida, Cancun/Tulum, USVI, Bahamas, etc. - the sand and lugging all of your stuff out there and back is such a huge turn off. Honestly, the best beach day I've ever had was a visit to Honeymoon Beach in St. Thomas. The boat anchored just off shore in the shallows, so I never had to set foot on the beach.

 

[mjkacmom]

My neighborhood is a 100+ year housing development, when we bought this house we had 3 oaks, the whole street had a bunch. We get blizzards and hurricanes, lots of 3 am block parties looking at damages, the constant chainsaws the next day.

 

[disneyseniors]

I hate it. We have a giant old tree in our backyard that is on its last limbs. Last week when I heard the crack in the middle of the night, I figured it was finally coming down. Nope - neighbors tree that straddles the fence. We have a GIANT pine tree right next to our house, the giant tree in the middle of the yard, 2 maples out front, and then 2 black walnuts in the back, backyard. All look a little tipsy during the storms.

We had a lot of big jack pines around our house! We had a terrible storm with straight line winds and I could hear the trees crashing down all around us. It was very scary. We got lucky in that only our garage got hit by a tree and our old truck was brushed with a tree but not much damage. Now we don't any any big trees of any kind around our house, in Minnesota, too
Insurance paid for a new roof, due to hail and storm damage, and our garage and truck, so all is well.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Questions for today?

 

[disneyseniors]

I hate it. We have a giant old tree in our backyard that is on its last limbs. Last week when I heard the crack in the middle of the night, I figured it was finally coming down. Nope - neighbors tree that straddles the fence. We have a GIANT pine tree right next to our house, the giant tree in the middle of the yard, 2 maples out front, and then 2 black walnuts in the back, backyard. All look a little tipsy during the storms.

We have a lot of big trees around our house, or Used to..... I don't know if you remember the 4th of July straight winds we had years ago? When that happened, we sat in our living room and heard and watched the big trees falling All Around our house. We were lucky that only one hit our garage with damage. It was super scary to watch that - too close for comfort. We now have all the big trees cut down away from hitting our house. Our whole house was surrounded by big fallen trees when the storm stopped. Don't want to see that ever again!

 

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[Brian Noble]

Sand in everything

I still have sand in my suitcase from a trip to Nuevo Vallarta 18 months ago.

And it is not because I don't use it.

 

[bcla]

I don't know if there's really that much of a difference in north vs south. I live on the west coast, and having traveled fairly extensively I'd say the divide is more rural/urban/suburban. And there's quite a bit of rural area very close to urban.

 

[Buzz Rules]

I don't know if there's really that much of a difference in north vs south. I live on the west coast, and having traveled fairly extensively I'd say the divide is more rural/urban/suburban. And there's quite a bit of rural area very close to urban.

Culture wise, there definitely is. Weather as well.

 

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Southerners and Northerners, if you were ever to move to the other's part of the country, what would be the first question you would ask about the region?

 

[PollyannaMom]

Southerners and Northerners, if you were ever to move to the other's part of the country, what would be the first question you would ask about the region?

Which animals should I be afraid of, and how do I avoid them?

 

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