I'm starting to see the difference between north and south now

[backwoodsbob]

I'm without a car right now and see in my problem the difference between north and south.

Here I have half the shop offering me rides for free until I get a car...in Detroit everyone would tell me life sucks and leave me standing.

Here I am waiting on my ride early so we can check on some fencing for him...in the north you would get told to fuck yourself by your neighbors if you asked for help even if you planned to help him with his fenceing

I LOVE the south

[Lady Freedom Returns]

1. It is how it's done in the South.

You help and they help.

It goes way back to when what is happening with your neighbor could happen with you. So you help them because you might need them in the future.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. You must have had some rough neighbors and co-workers....

I lived over half my life in the north and never ran into the problems you describe. I now live in the south...I find people pretty much the same when it comes to lending a helping hand.

[Chan790]

3. I'm without a car always.

Here I can ride the bus or the Metro or utilize the 500-miles of paved bike-trails in metro DC...in North Carolina, I'm at the whim of others.

Here I am getting ready to go to the store to buy pants...in the south, I'd have to find someone to take me to get pants and I'd get told that I need to learn to drive (nvm that I'm not able to drive for medical reasons) so "bless you, you're not a burden to others."

I also never have to deal with judgmental religiously-vocal bigots.

I LOVE the north. (Conversely, I HATE the South.)

[Wounded Bear]

4. I don't know.....

people helping each other out sounds kind of socialistic to me.

[raccoon]

5. I wonder if the difference is really about big city VS small town? nt

[Baitball Blogger]

6. It's not always like that.

Just to be fair, there is a lot of, "I got mine, you get yours," going around in Florida.

[Taverner]

7. I surely would expect a different situation if you were black...

Including Detroit.

[Aristus]

10. I agree. If you were black, and needed a ride in a "sundown town",

that's a ride you wouldn't come back from. I don't care how often they say 'sir' or 'ma'am' down there.

And I've found people are pretty much the same wherever one goes. Perception counts for a lot.

[TeamPooka]

8. Being taken for a ride in the south is not always a good thing.

[gaspee]

9. Not my experience at all

We had a big tree come down in a storm and my neighbor was right over with his chainsaw to help chop it up. When I lived in the south, the neighbors were thieves whose house looked like a junkyard. We can all do anecdotal evidence.

I hated living in the south - from people demanding to know if I'd been "saved" - I'd answer from what - or that's kind of personal, dontcha think? To hardly anyone spaying and neutering their pets, to not giving heartguard to pets... to political representation being batshit insane to the sucky weather 9 months of the year (granted, warm winters were nice) to the passive aggressive "niceness" to the whole inferiority complex... ugh... you can keep it! I'll take New England any day.

[Suich]

11. How are you feeling, bwb???

[pipi_k]

12. Small rural town

in Western Mass...

We help each other out here because what goes around comes around.

[we can do it]

13. Good thing you're not gay.