[Brit] US Culture Shock: I Just Bought My First [old] American House

[FuturePAF]

@Meengla lives in a deep south rural backwater place..somewhere (as a northerner) even I'd be spooked to live in...apparently he has not had any trouble.

First Snowfall of the Season at My American Home!

This is just a casual post. Thought to share to maybe lighten up the mood here some. Showing the first snowfall of the season which is happening today. Already about 3-3.5 inches of snow has fallen here and that's enough for those of us who live in the American Deep South. So far this year, the...

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The South ain’t the south you think it is. Having lived in the south, for a few years, Bless your heart for think it was

 

[tower9]

It was just a general observation, given politics and all. No finger pointing. We all have our biases. From what I've gathered the southerners are generally more hospitable as well.

I am not a travel guy but if there's any country I'd love to visit, it's good ol' USA. Esp, the wilderness and the south.

Halal food is a big problem tho.

I’ve lived in those places. As a minority, if you’re culturally acculturated and friendly, most people are pretty friendly to you but there will be ignorant remarks from time to time. There will be some hostility but it’s not as prevalent as people make it out to be. Really the biggest problem you will have is boredom as there is not much going on after you are there a while.

 

[jhungary]

I moved from Hong Kong (living in a 460 sq feet apartment) to US (0.8-acre Family Farm with a 1500 sq ft adobe) to my current home in Blacktown Sydney (on a 400 sq meter land.)

He should have move here, and live in rural or outback if he just want a big house...

 

[F-22Raptor]

It was just a general observation, given politics and all. No finger pointing. We all have our biases. From what I've gathered the southerners are generally more hospitable as well.

I am not a travel guy but if there's any country I'd love to visit, it's good ol' USA. Esp, the wilderness and the south.

Halal food is a big problem tho.

I’m from Nashville, Tennessee and there’s immigrants from all over the world that live here. Overall, you won’t find a more welcoming people than in the South.

 

[FuturePAF]

As a kid playing GTA San Andreas, I always wanted to go live in one of those towns in the Los Santos countryside. Hilly areas, Have a hunting rifle, truck and ofc, a bonafide garage. Small, quiet town surrounded by pine forests.

Then I grew up and learnt of US politics and found out that the sort of rural, backwater place I fantasized living in, is also the place I as a brown Pakistani Muslim, would be least welcome in.

Oh well...

College towns. Just live in a small college town in any part of the country you like and it will be more cosmopolitan than you thought. Young people everywhere want to have fun, all the more true in college towns Where they are a larger percentage of the population. College towns also attract people from cities.

 

[tower9]

The South ain’t the south you think it is. Having lived in the south, for a few years, Bless your heart for think it was

This is gold lol

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

The South ain’t the south you think it is. Having lived in the south, for a few years, Bless your heart for think it was

I knew this girl who was originally from Louisiana and wow what a character she was. You'd think you were back in the 1860's the way her mind worked.

"hmm I never really heard people using "black" before...we just call them all "N*****s".

"You're a funny guy...how'd you like to be tied to a tree in the deep woods for a month"

Yeah I'd be armed too with an AR-15 if I lived down there...

uh-huh..what a shocker.

Move to the NorthEast..even NYC is safer.

 

[FuturePAF]

I knew this girl who was originally from Louisiana and wow a character she was. You'd think you were back in the 1860's the way her mind worked.

"hmm I never really heard people using "black" before...we just call them all "N*****s".

Yeah, there are people that just plain ignorant. Met a kid, probably no older then 18, lived all his life in a “holler”, hadn’t seen any one who wasn’t white, in person, his whole life. We tried to put him at ease; that we were normal people just like him.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Yeah, there are people that just plain ignorant. Met a kid, probably no older then 18, lived all his life in a “holler”, hadn’t seen any one who wasn’t white, in person, his whole life. We tried to put him at ease; that we were normal people just like him.

I have crazy hillbilly cousins in the Berkshires...they are messed up and mostly poor...guns galore...but I'm not afraid of anybody up there trying to kill me. I think it is because there just wasn't any history of violence up there compared to all the stuff that happened in the South. So I consider them all relatively harmless (well to white people I guess).

So picture your banjo playing racist backwater Southern hillbilly moving to the North but minus the murderous grudge.

 

[FuturePAF]

I have crazy hillbilly cousins in the Berkshires...they are messed up and mostly poor...guns galore...but I'm not afraid of anybody up there trying to kill me. I think it is because there just wasn't any history of violence up there compared to all the stuff that happened in the South. So I consider them relatively harmless.

So picture your banjo playing racist backwater Southern hillbilly moving to the North but minus the murderous grudge.

Well your kin, and you have family in those parts. It’s almost tribal lines people don’t want to cross messing with you in the berkshires.

In parts of the south, from what I’ve seen, you tend to get into trouble if you start “messin where you shouldn’t a Ben a messin”, getting into other’s business.

 

[tower9]

Yeah, there are people that just plain ignorant. Met a kid, probably no older then 18, lived all his life in a “holler”, hadn’t seen any one who wasn’t white, in person, his whole life. We tried to put him at ease; that we were normal people just like him.

Was he from West Virginia? LOL

 

[FuturePAF]

Was he from West Virginia? LOL

Yes, he was. Gotta love them country roads.

 

[tower9]

Yes, he was. Gotta love them country roads.

Sounds like Appalachian hillbilly shit to me lol There is "hillbilly" and then there is "Appalachian hillbilly" LMAO Another order of things.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

“messin where you shouldn’t a Ben a messin”, getting into other’s business.

yes, as per the tree-in-the-woods-for-a-month reply when you go places in conversations they don't like.

The joke is this about interviewing to be a police officer.

In the North:
Police: Some guy mugs a little old lady and puts her in the hospital and you arrest him. Do you bring him to the station or angrily throw him in the river with a cement block.
Interviewee: Uh..I think this wouldn't be a good fit for me as I'd kill too many people.
Police: Well I'm glad you can admit that..but as you can see you aren't going to be a good fit. Next!


In the South:
Police: Some guy mugs a little old lady and puts her in the hospital and you arrest him. Do you bring him to the station or angrily throw him in the river with a cement block.
Interviewee: Uh..I think this wouldn't be a good fit for me as I'd kill too many people.
Police: Actually you are exactly the type of guy we are looking for.

 

[FuturePAF]

yes, as per the tree-in-the-woods-for-a-month reply when you go places in conversations they don't like.

Everywhere has a way of stalling or turning a conversation away from the point when they don’t like where is going. In New York, they might ask more details to the point of infuriation, so something doesn’t have to get done.

Btw, a good video on how people in the more rural parts of the country were a generation ago; 70s/80s is the On the Road with Charles Kuralt. It also shows how relatively well off people were, maybe not monetarily, but in community spirit. Walmart and not Amazon have really hollowed out many a town, all over this land. It’s a sad sight to go through some of these towns and wonder how they use to be in their heyday. You get a sense of you go to some antique stores.