This is why we’re HOT

13 Jul

Apparently, 40,000 New Yorkers have moved to Atlanta in the last five years, according to an article in the New York Sun. Although, based on this article, I am a little confused as to what they were moving for:

Differences like that make some transplants disdainful of their new address 900 miles south.

“Atlanta is a second-tier city,” Jessica Harlan, 36, who relocated two years ago, said. “New York is cooler and more exciting in every respect.”

New Yorkers may even take exception to the way Georgians speak. Their drawl, and expressions like “y’all” and “bless her heart,” grate on some newcomers.

“If my kids have a Southern accent, I will kill myself,” Brooklyn native Jodi Fleisig, an Atlanta resident since 1998, said. Ms. Fleisig said she tends to socialize with ex-New Yorkers, and finds inviting Southerners to lunch can be troublesome.

“Being Southern means you wait for someone to finish a sentence,” she said. “We talk really fast. They can’t get a word in edgewise.”


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11 Responses to “This is why we’re HOT”

  1. julia Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 8:54 pm #

    Wow. Horrible article. Badly written and makes everyone in it, New Yorkers and Atlantans included, sound stupid. Good job, New York Sun.

  2. kiana Monday, July 14, 2008 at 1:34 am #

    this makes no sense. but the comments are fun!

  3. Gordon Lamb Monday, July 14, 2008 at 10:30 am #

    “If my kids have a Southern accent, I will kill myself,”

    Do Yankees keep their promises? I hope so.

  4. spencer Monday, July 14, 2008 at 10:55 am #

    what an ignoramus

    http://tk-jk.net/beach/P_beaches_in_atlanta.htm

  5. whistle Monday, July 14, 2008 at 3:11 pm #

    I’ve had a lot of unimpressive pizza in New York, many places just remind me of SBARRO-like pizza from the mall.

    Who couldn’t love Carmelli’s or Everybody’s?

  6. christa t Monday, July 14, 2008 at 6:17 pm #

    OH MY GOD CAMELLI’S!!!!

  7. Sara Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 10:04 am #

    You can find a lot of these jackasses at Thrashers games, wearing Atlanta jerseys except when Buffa-blow or the Islanders come to town. It’s a huge topic of contention in the Thrashers blogosphere. My thoughts are, if its so misterable, go carpetbag somewhere else.

  8. Bombchell.Blogspot Friday, July 18, 2008 at 6:27 pm #

    lol [shrugs] and I’m sure I can find people who would say horrible thing about New York. this article probably just picked the most ridiculous things,I know some well educated, and also some badly behaved people who wouldnt say the same.

    this is how to solve it. lets watch Real Housewives of Atlanta, and see who’s more bearable =)

  9. Bombchell.Blogspot Friday, July 18, 2008 at 6:29 pm #

    i meant i know diverse people from NY who wouldn’t trash ATL.)

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