You know what I worry about most in a place to live? Inclusiveness! Hahahahahahahaha

Quality of life is just better in the south. That's why people are moving here.

#12 | Posted by THEBULL

People are moving to the south because reaganomics has failed and they're out of money and out of options.

The south is the trailer park of america. No one wants to live in 95 degree weather with 95 percent humidity and mosquitos the size of birds.

My daughter lives in the Uptown part of Dallas. Very hip, young professional enclave. Very close to the SMU campus, Highland Park, etc. All her friends are from other parts of the South or a recent grad taking on their first real job, like her.

#16 | Posted by eberly

Yeah that's because the less ------ people in the south move to the urban meccas in the south to escape the southern experience as much as possible. If they could afford to move to coastal CA and had friends and contacts there, no intelligent person would choose the south.

18. A usually reliable poster being irrational.

Have you ever lived in the South?

Do you think friends and contacts anywhere make it easier to live somewhere, especially when they are among the wealthiest people on earth who can afford every luxury?

And have it all wiped away in a mudslide overnight? No thanks.

And sure, I'd love to move to Uruguay. Or Amsterdam. Or maybe even back near the NC mountains.

But choice in life sometimes is limited by circumstances way beyond one's control.

#20 | Posted by Dbt2

I grew up in the south. That's how I know it sucks.

And yes, friends and contacts are everything. It prevents a ton of people from leaving the shitty place they were born and moving to a better place where they wouldnt know anyone. That's why my brother is still there. Also he's a freak who enjoys humidity.

Ironically, it was the NC mountains that were recently wiped away in a hurricane, not the CA coast.

I'd take what happened to people I know in Spruce Pine, NC, any day over what happened to people I know in the Pacific Palisades, and which events are forecast to continue there, along with wildfires, earthquakes, etc.

I grew up in New York City, went South in 1977, never returned, and New York would have been the logical course for my line of work. To each their own. No regrets.

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And yes, Eberly, by reliable, I mean that I usually agree with Speaks' content and enjoy their perspective.

#26 | Posted by Dbt2

It wasn't just spruce pine. A former classmate was killed in a flooding river near lake lure trying to save kids at a christian camp. Hurricanes aren't going to stop. Nor are heat domes. It's all going to get worse, just like the wildfires in the west. Nowhere is safe from the consequences of decades of conservative leadership destroying the climate.

You can choose a place that is always humid and bug infested and gets occasional hurricanes and tornados, and I'll choose a place that has the best climate in the country and gets occasional wildfires.

At least CA has people in charge who want to address climate change, whereas NC is full of morons who call climate change a hoax and literally cosplay as confederate soldiers on the weekend.