sorry, i was just curious about you. personally, i have no "off-topic" rules in my blog, and rely on the host to tell me if i am flooding him with irrelevant info, and then i stop. come to think of it, i would not return to a blog where i was censored for an off-topic. i find such blogs unworthy of my presence. :-)
sometimes i do ask someone to shut up (just had) because he is a nudnik equal to me, and our badminton was becoming toxically boring.
tell me just one thing if you don't mind - 20 years in the South, do you feel a part of it or a stranger? i am told that newcomers of any race, yankees especially, do not ever become welcome, and what little i read of southern literature tells me the same.
i don't need a welcoming party, we are antisocial to a degree, but i am used to feeling at home basically anywhere in teh US. in the South, I do not. exceopt maybe North Carolina, the least southern of southern states. i don't mean Florida.
so, if you don't mind - do you feel you have grown into being "them" and "they" embraced you? i find "them" insular in the extreme I had not seen yet, and I lived or/and have family in the East, NE, Wild West, Kali, Montana, Oregon, etc, etc.
To me, the South is home. And why wouldn't it be? I moved here when I was 19; so I pretty much grew up here, got my degrees from UAB, got married here, had kids here. I've been up North and out West, but I didn't really ever feel like I wanted to stay.
Are there some things that irritate me about the South? Of course. But not enough to make me want to move.
I like the South, I like Southern culture, people, and food. Wish I could live in an antebellum-style house! Perhaps when I decide to build my next home ;) I may not like the Bham area... even though it's undergoing a fairly active gentrification, it's still a bit dumpy. If I ever do move, I'd consider moving to Huntsville. I think Southerners in general are pretty decent people, very friendly. Especially older black ladies and gentlemen.
As far as being "them", I'm not sure how to answer that question. I've been a non-conformist all my life. I just hang out with other weirdos (and I don't mean other immigrants) and we get along just fine.
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Re: pipiskes i disagree ;-)
Date: 2017-07-20 04:23 pm (UTC)Re: pipiskes i disagree ;-)
Date: 2017-07-20 04:53 pm (UTC)Re: pipiskes i disagree ;-)
Date: 2017-07-20 05:07 pm (UTC)sometimes i do ask someone to shut up (just had) because he is a nudnik equal to me, and our badminton was becoming toxically boring.
tell me just one thing if you don't mind - 20 years in the South, do you feel a part of it or a stranger? i am told that newcomers of any race, yankees especially, do not ever become welcome, and what little i read of southern literature tells me the same.
i don't need a welcoming party, we are antisocial to a degree, but i am used to feeling at home basically anywhere in teh US. in the South, I do not. exceopt maybe North Carolina, the least southern of southern states. i don't mean Florida.
so, if you don't mind - do you feel you have grown into being "them" and "they" embraced you? i find "them" insular in the extreme I had not seen yet, and I lived or/and have family in the East, NE, Wild West, Kali, Montana, Oregon, etc, etc.
Re: pipiskes i disagree ;-)
Date: 2017-07-20 06:04 pm (UTC)Are there some things that irritate me about the South? Of course. But not enough to make me want to move.
I like the South, I like Southern culture, people, and food. Wish I could live in an antebellum-style house! Perhaps when I decide to build my next home ;) I may not like the Bham area... even though it's undergoing a fairly active gentrification, it's still a bit dumpy. If I ever do move, I'd consider moving to Huntsville. I think Southerners in general are pretty decent people, very friendly. Especially older black ladies and gentlemen.
As far as being "them", I'm not sure how to answer that question. I've been a non-conformist all my life. I just hang out with other weirdos (and I don't mean other immigrants) and we get along just fine.
Re: pipiskes i disagree ;-)
Date: 2017-07-20 06:24 pm (UTC)RE: Re: pipiskes i disagree ;-)
Date: 2017-07-20 05:15 pm (UTC)Btw, she actually does like you ;)