Movin South... Silly yankee questions...

[Texas Dawg]

I spent some "quality" time in St. Louis, once or twice a year, when we brought our plane back to McDonnell Douglas for ECM, etc. upgrades during Vietnam. Seldom was heard "y'all", except from my aircrew buddies. It was mostly "youz guys"? No offense to our St Louis Friends, I was born and raised in Nebraska.
I wasn't born in Texas but, I got here as fast as I could! (1967)
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Same here. Born and raised in Georgia (UGA class of '85-Bulldog through and through) and have been in Texas since 2003 (Both kids are native Texans). I expect this is where they will put in in the ground one day.

 

[Texas Dawg]

Well thanks! I didn't expect such a good response... My company is most likely going to relocate us to one of those areas. I am extremely happy to be getting out of this state. I do like to hunt, and tend to mind my own business. I hope to make some new friends down there.

If you have ever had a state with 95% of the geographical area of the state opposed to something yet the crowded and liberal city control everything, New York is it! Most of my life, I have survived one business after another closing here in NY. I'm tired of struggling to make a living and being smothered by taxes. Finally working for a company that cares for it's people and is offering transfers out of it's generosity.

It sounds like we will adapt all right, We aren't church people, but are believers. I would rather fix a persons porch or whatever out of caring than go to church, but that's just us... Thank-you for all the replies! I'll be keeping the dog on the lawn and shaking out my boots!

New York sounds like Georgia in that regard. There is Atlanta and then there is the rest of the state just like NYC is so different from the rest of New York state. I have several good friends that are from New York state and were raised on dairy farms. To someone from NYC they are just as strange to them as those of us in the South.

 

[kenmac]

Same here. Born and raised in Georgia (UGA class of '85-Bulldog through and through) and have been in Texas since 2003 (Both kids are native Texans). I expect this is where they will put in in the ground one day.[/QUOTE

My brother lives in Mansfield TX.. Has a crick that runs behind his house... When it rains a lot.. (which it has twice recently) that crick becomes a river

 

[k0ua]

Well thanks! I didn't expect such a good response... My company is most likely going to relocate us to one of those areas. I am extremely happy to be getting out of this state. I do like to hunt, and tend to mind my own business. I hope to make some new friends down there.

If you have ever had a state with 95% of the geographical area of the state opposed to something yet the crowded and liberal city control everything, New York is it! Most of my life, I have survived one business after another closing here in NY. I'm tired of struggling to make a living and being smothered by taxes. Finally working for a company that cares for it's people and is offering transfers out of it's generosity.

It sounds like we will adapt all right, We aren't church people, but are believers. I would rather fix a persons porch or whatever out of caring than go to church, but that's just us... Thank-you for all the replies! I'll be keeping the dog on the lawn and shaking out my boots!

From your response, I don't think you are going to have any trouble fitting in down south at all. Welcome home.:thumbsup:

 

[Texas Dawg]

Same here. Born and raised in Georgia (UGA class of '85-Bulldog through and through) and have been in Texas since 2003 (Both kids are native Texans). I expect this is where they will put in in the ground one day.[/QUOTE

My brother lives in Mansfield TX.. Has a crick that runs behind his house... When it rains a lot.. (which it has twice recently) that crick becomes a river

The water can come up very fast here especially in the summer. After the ground bakes, it is like asphalt. Until it has rained for a while and softened up the ground, it all runs off just like it was hitting asphalt and fills the creeks and lakes in a hurry.

 

[kenmac]

He's in the HVAC bus.. He's always talking about how low the humidity is there compared to here

 

[Texas Dawg]

He's in the HVAC bus.. He's always talking about how low the humidity is there compared to here

He is correct. Spent most of my life in South Georgia with high humidity that we don't have here. What we lack in humidity (relative to the high heat index in the summer in South Georgia) we make up for in pure out hot here in North Texas.

 

[LAFarm]

Definitely need to anticipate encounters between your dog and snakes, especially if you will be in a rural area. Copperheads, water moccasins and rattlesnakes are native in Louisiana. My kids husky got acquainted with a water moccasin and a copperhead on different occasions. The moccasin got her on the cheek and she swelled up for a few days, the copperhead caught her on the lip and she stayed in her house for a few days with a fat lip. She was pretty subdued for about a week on both occasions. However, chicken snakes didn't stand a chance with her. She would grab them and shake them literally to pieces in about 2 seconds! Like Eddy said in an earlier reply, fire ants and red wasps are the other two "plagues" we have down here. Always keep several cans of wasp spray handy and I've had pretty good results on the fire ants using Amdro. Its kind of on the expensive side so I pretty much only use it around the house and my shop. Good luck wherever you decide to choose and welcome to the South! Oh, they say you will get acclimated to the weather. Don't believe them, I've lived here all my life, I was born in coastal southeast Texas and now live in west central Louisiana and I still haven't gotten acclimated!

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Find the closest Southern Baptist Church and pencil in your Sundays. Was my experience that it's not about how you act (fixing a porch) but where you say you go to church when you ask (and you almost always will).
Also it helps to spend as much time as possible voicing hatred of people who are not like you. :stirthepot:

 

[CrownHawg]

We do not voice hatred of people who are not like us, we voice disdain for those who annoy the HE!! ouf of us! Yankee and southerner are just terms, it's individual ignorance that causes such animosity.....