<p>Gun CONTROL is more of a topic in the northeast as opposed to the LUV of guns like it is down here…hum… We had an experience where one of the fathers knew we weren’t wild about hunting or guns and actually pulled my son aside at his house and told him that there was nothing to be afraid of, that guns were good. I thought he was WAY out of bounds doing that behind my back, but decided to keep mum about it to keep the peace. I try to keep my opinions to myself (as opposed to the folks mentionned on this thread who loudly compare their ways to others) but sometimes I have to steel myself.</p>
<p>Atomom, I may be misreading your sarcasm, but are you really saying all Yankees are rude?</p>
<p>We do talk fast, interrupt, cut people off when driving, generally live type A lives, but rude? Never!</p>
<p>Allmusic, People can be rude in the south too. There are rude and nice people everywhere.</p>
<p>When we visited our S in VA, we drove into a gas station to fill up. It was 8:55pm. The station was still open, as the lights were all on. As soon as we pulled in, the attendant immediately turned off all of the lights. I thought that this behavior was something that I would see in echemmm… NY/NJ, but not in VA. I was wrong.</p>
<p>Wait. Virginia is in the South?? :)</p>
<p>The out of the house without make-up stuff is changing a lot. When I was younger, I would never go out without, but now it is pretty common, even in the “social” part of town.</p>
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<p>The HOSE thing varies, too. Down here in LA, wearing hose is only for late fall and winter, it is just too humid in the summer, and most ladies have nice tans and wear dressy sandals 9 months out off the year. When my Mom and first cousin came down for D’s high school graduation 2 years ago, they were appropriately dressed, but horrified at the all other ladies who weren’t wearing hose - they would have left theirs off had they realized wearing it was so uncommon! I only wear hose for special occasions in the summer.</p>
<p>Yes, some southerners still hang the Confederate flag, but they don’t see it as a way of disrespecting America today. Mostly it’s ignorance of the fact of what it once represented.</p>
<p>sjmom: Tried 'em. (I’m usually adventurous & willing to try regional delicacies.) Hated them! Tasted like grainy, unsweetened peanut butter.</p>
<p>jack: Don’t know what you mean by Wall St in the south. But the NYC Wall Street look is very conservative, very bland. It’s the other industries that have an obsession with youth & grooming trends.</p>
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Gee, Atomom. You managed to break a few of your own rules in your post!</p>
<p>Virginia south of the DC area is as southern as you get. Richmond may be the most southern of all cities. The colonial heritage just hides some of it.</p>
<p>I’m just loving all these comments and learning a lot.</p>
<p>Stickershock: I am aware of what the “NYC Wall Street look is.” (Is there another Wall St of which I am not aware?). I was commenting on dke’s post, where she said, “I also have a direct style from years on Wall street which the women here find…curious.” I was making the point that–at least where I live-- who hasn’t worked on Wall Street?? Not a very big deal. I am surprised that this would be so unusual in Northern Florida.</p>
<p>Your post, explaining to me about the “NYC Wall Street look” has nothing to do with her post or mine, but does have a lot to do with what annoys Southerners about Northerners. I think it’s the explanation of the obvious to us and assuming we need that explanation. ;)</p>
<p>barrons: I was kidding; that’s why I added a smiley face. Or wait. Did I? I actually grew up very close to the Virginia state line. It was just a comment that I found amusing (and that I’ve heard before!).</p>
<p>I understand Atomom’s post to be a little tongue-in-cheek. But this part sounded just like my FIL talking!
I think that many southerners just think that northerners do everything too fast, and seem rude as a consequence.</p>
<p>Jack, as far as Wall Streeters go in N. Florida, there are actually men here who commute between the two, and there are lots of retired Wall Streeters as well but they’re all men. I think in eight years I’ve met one woman who worked there, and she was an attorney. I’m not saying a place is great or not depending on how many Wall Streeters are there, I’m just saying that I don’t sugar coat things and call a spade a spade, learned it in NYC, and am considered…?? severe?? I guess. I just call in plain speaking. Not alot of giggling, sighing, etc. Just the way it is.</p>
<p>I was with H at a company function a couple of months ago, and got talking with one of the guys in his company. I made some observation about something, and the guy looked at me as if to say, “Well, little lady, that’s a mighty big word!” .bizarre. H also notices it at his company where the women are only given so much leeway professionally. There’s a glass ceiling.</p>
<p>dke: Thanks. I understood your point the first time. I am just surprised, especially given that this is Florida, a state most people don’t really consider Southern. Northern Florida must be very different. I am also surprised that anyone would be taken aback with a woman’s direct way of speaking (no sugar-coating)–regardless of where you learned it. I actually haven’t heard a lot of giggling and sighing from Southern women in a long time, except from young teenagers, perhaps–and that doesn’t seem to be limited to the South. And I doubt the glass ceiling is limited to the South, either. I think it also depends on the company.</p>
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jack, my post was in reference to your post quoted above. You were pointing out some extreme beauty/vanity rituals & stating that nobody in the South you’ve ever met practices them. Then you state that working on Wall Street is a “pretty common occurence around here.” So YOU brought up a southern Wall Street, not me. That’s why I said I didn’t know what you meant by Wall St in the south. Just as we have Chinatown in NYC, there are Chinatowns all over the US. I wondered if there is a financial district in the south referred to as Wall Street. Perhaps you meant to say “having worked on Wall Street,” thus indicating past work, not present?</p>
<p>Stickershock: I should have started a new paragraph there. The comment about Wall Street had nothing to do with my previous comment about “extreme beauty/vanity.” It was just another thought; sorry about the lack of a new paragraph–didn’t mean to confuse you. I said nothing about a “southern Wall Street;” rather, I was simply commenting that I am surprised that in Florida, dke would have met so few women/men who have worked there at one time or another. Again, Northern Florida, where she lives, must be very different from my perception of Florida in general.</p>
<p>Have lived in the south for about 17 years now. When I first moved here, I did notice women dressing up more to run out to store or whatever. Now, my look of no make-up, jeans and t-shirts and hair that can just air dry fits in much better.</p>
<p>People are much friendlier here, but I did learn that when the person you just met says “We need to get together for lunch sometime”–they are just being nice and aren’t really going to call.</p>
<p>People here do pull off the road, both directions, for a funeral procession. I had never seen that before.</p>
<p>Yes, one does need to wave when meeting on a small road–the neighbors will talk if you don’t ;).</p>
<p>When first meeting people upon our move I found out that the first 3 questions asked were: 1. What does your husband do? 2. Where do you go to church? 3. How many kids do you have?</p>
<p>I love it here and would never move back!</p>
<p>Considering that I don’t like to be defined by what my husband does and that I don’t go to church, (not to mention no HOSE or makeup), I think G-d knew that I belonged up Nawth. :)</p>
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<p>What happens if the answer is “We don’t” or “At the Hindu temple in Charlotte, when we can make the trip”?</p>