Do people in the south really move slower ?

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

I find that cars from Yankee states and Canada slow our traffic way down.

that's cuz the hair is blue...Yankees go to FLA to die

[R K T]

We lived in Arkansas for 7 years. When we first moved there we hired a couple guys to do some landscaping in the front yard of our new house. It was a 4 to 5 day job (I thought) and after a day and a half they stuck their shovels in the ground and told us that they would "be back shortly". I wasn't sure what "shortly" exactly meant. Were they going to lunch? Did they have to go buy more sod, rocks, mulch etc?

No....they left to go deer hunting for 10 days! Came back grabbed their shovels and started working like they never left. It ended up way more than 5 days to complete the job. One guy here in SoCal would had it all done in probably 3 days max.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by LakeCleElum

Many years ago, I was at a bar in Chapel Hill, NC.....The hot looking female bartender asked me 3 times what I wanted to drink. After the 3rd repeat, she sez:

"You're a God-Damn Yankee, aren't you???"

A cute bartender at Duke wouldn't have had to ask more than once...some here are a bit slow

[74-911]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

I find that cars from Yankee states and Canada slow our traffic way down.

A tow truck in Port Aransas, TX (LOTS of snowbirds (AKA winter Texans) spend the winter there) had a large bumper sticker that read:

"When I retire I am going to move up North and drive real slow"...

[jyl]

Once upon a time, one of my clients was a crane manufacturer in Minnesota. The compact mixed to North Carolina. The managers and engineers were all happy. They told me Raleigh-Durham was where they wanted to retire, and now they were being paid to live there, all bought houses on waterways with docks. After a year, they started telling me about their labor problems. During shrimping season, absenteeism was huge on the factory floor, and production dropped.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by jyl

Once upon a time, one of my clients was a crane manufacturer in Minnesota. The compact mixed to North Carolina. The managers and engineers were all happy. They told me Raleigh-Durham was where they wanted to retire, and now they were being paid to live there, all bought houses on waterways with docks. After a year, they started telling me about their labor problems. During shrimping season, absenteeism was huge on the factory floor, and production dropped.

NC is a VERY diverse state, and there's no doubt one could find lots of stereotypes first hand, but this post makes no sense however...The Research Triangle area is landlocked, there aren't any waterways there and I'd venture that many folks aren't actually from the south...it's very diverse, except you'd have to travel 100 miles to find a shrimper
I do know a few folks who aren't gonna be at work when deer season opens however...but it's an annual ritual, and they schedule vacations

[BertBeagle]

Originally Posted by jyl

Once upon a time, one of my clients was a crane manufacturer in Minnesota. The compact mixed to North Carolina. The managers and engineers were all happy. They told me Raleigh-Durham was where they wanted to retire, and now they were being paid to live there, all bought houses on waterways with docks. After a year, they started telling me about their labor problems. During shrimping season, absenteeism was huge on the factory floor, and production dropped.

KK911 is polite, nice and all that. I'm not so much so. JYL, this is without doubt the dumbest post in this thread, but not by much.

[HardDrive]

[fred cook]

Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway

There is Typical Northeast pace, fast, moderate, slow, stop, and Southern slow...

They say the South will rise again...that's was a hundred years ago and I don't think it will happen in a stars age.

Rise, that is! All of the Confederate money that I have is worth about 5-10 times it's face value! Can't say that about the Yankee dollars!

Actually, the people in the south don't move slower, they just talk slower. You can get old just listening to someone tell a joke! My grandfather grew up on a farm in Vermont. He said that in the winter, if it was snowing too hard to do chores, they could go hunting. In the summer, if it was raining too hard to do chores, they could go fishing. As soon as he turned 18 he moved south to Richmond, VA. where the weather was more reasonable. He later moved the family south to Georgia to be in an even more pleasant climate. He was a yankee thru and thru until the day he died, but never once complained about the people or the weather in north Georgia!

[Por_sha911]

Well, I'm jus now fixin ta get round ta sayin sumpin about yer question...

Yes! life is more laid back and slower. As an ex-new yawker, it took a while but I have learned to love it. The only problem is those darn yankees keep coming down here and ruining it for us.

[bivenator]

Yes , we are.

[MBAtarga]

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[NutmegCarrera]

I arrived in GA in 2012.
Feels like forever ago, therefore yes - things do move slower.
Going "back north" May 27th. Just after kids are done in school.
I took my sweet time and never changed my signature. Turns out to be for the best - as I'd just have to change it back again now.

[rattlsnak]

Depends where in the south you are referring to. I can assure you things in ATL are not slow paced by any means. Drive 30 miles out of the city limits? That's a whole other story..

[Otter74]

There, fixed it for ya

Originally Posted by rattlsnak

Depends where in the south you are referring to. I can assure you things in ATL are not slow paced by any means. Drive 30 miles out of the city limits? That's a whole nuther story..