JustSheila
Crusader
Yup. I've experienced the same thing, here, except they don't really talk much about the civil war. Most that I meet spend their time gossiping and making up stories. They create or imagine dramas and then resolve their dramas and that keeps them too busy all day long to find time to work.Fascinating that you see that too!
I am in the process of selling a timeshare I have in N.Carolina and used to consider moving there, the locals call us Northerners "half backs" because we move from the oppressive Florida heat to the soothing mild weather of the Carolina mountains and are half way back to where "we belong". And there are a ton of places constantly for sale. But what I learned is that I could never function among the ignoramuses that I've encountered in my travels there. People are stuck in civil war incidents and still see anyone from north of the Mason/Dixon as "Yankee's" who they ostracize and rip off if you hire them to work on your place, especially if you move off the beaten path. They probably react poorly to an Aussie accent too, I'd imagine. It's sad really.
We've all seen the movie "Deliverance" and it's still much like in too many areas unless you find a progressive town such as Ashville, N.C.
You have to live it to believe it. I see you've been going through a similar thing there as I have here.
It doesn't stop with workers ripping you off, though. Companies you work for do the same thing and treat you like dirt. They also have all sorts of imaginary dramas and hallucinate events that never happen because as a northerner or foreigner, you are an "outsider." Witch hunts against northerners are alive and well in the south.
The cities are far, far better. Nashville is good. I'm done working in the country areas, had enough of this craziness.
Added: Those houses for sale are from unqualified people buying them, btw. There is a huge percentage of the population on welfare in the south. But they're not worth buying because wages are so low and there is so much animosity toward "the outsiders." Their communities are made up of the circle of people they grew up with or relatives and they are mostly closed communities. Even some of the pastors are relatives. Still, they've had a BIG influx of northerners buying properties anyway and their status quo is being forced to change as the population is changing.
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