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Moved from NYC to South Carolina and the culture shock is real. Doors aren't locked. Neighbors help each other out with stuff like mowing, or bringing bins up/
by busterarm 4y ago
Moved from NYC to South Carolina and the culture shock is real.
Doors aren't locked. Neighbors help each other out with stuff like mowing, or bringing bins up/down driveways on trash day. No words are exchanged about it either.
I removed the rust and repainted my mailbox this weekend and then went around the neighborhood to do the same for others while I had spare time and spare paint left.
This is what I moved here for. No way will I stop working remote and go back.
- Broken_Hippo 4y ago[flagged]
- automatic6131 4y agoThis thinking is pathological
- Broken_Hippo 4y ago[flagged]
- pjc50 4y agoIt's very real if you're in one of those categories. See South Carolina H4047.
- echelon 4y agoOne of the reasons they might think that way is because they haven't known or interacted with someone appreciably different. The more people interact, the smaller the gaps between us become. At the end of the day, we're all human.
- busterarm 4y agoNearly 60% of the nation's Black people live in Southern states and the "Great Migration" has been in reverse back towards the South since the 70s... To a large percentage of that population, this part of America is going to feel the most like home and a city like Atlanta has a lot more going on culturally than New York. Not only is this thinking pathological, but they act like not only does the world revolve around them but that they can't be guilty of any bigotry either. While living in NYC I saw no shortage of gay men shouting the N-word just as I saw homophobic minorities. Everyone is capable of being an asshole.
- xeromal 4y agoWelcome to Appalachia. We have many issues but we get a couple of things right.
- busterarm 4y agoI'm in Midlands SC (and some time in Lowcountry before it). Technically we're just outside of Appalachia, but yeah the attitude applies. Heck, half of our state seems to be from Southern Ohio anyway!
- xeromal 4y agoFunny how that works. A lot of people from Appalachia and the Deep South migrated to Ohio and the midwest for jobs in the early 1900s
- askin4it 4y agoBy and large true, but there are some sketchy rural places, and some rural places that are safe but not friendly....such as the place I moved back when I assumed all rural people were neighborly.
- busterarm 4y agoNo doubt. And honestly where I am at wouldn't be considered rural. There are farms 5 minutes down the road from me but we're comfortably suburban. One thing people need to keep in mind these days is that some folks seek out the most rural places because they don't want to be bothered. Some of them have something to hide too.