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.”
Tags: if my kids have a southern accent I will kill myself, new yorkers
Wow. Horrible article. Badly written and makes everyone in it, New Yorkers and Atlantans included, sound stupid. Good job, New York Sun.
this makes no sense. but the comments are fun!
“If my kids have a Southern accent, I will kill myself,”
Do Yankees keep their promises? I hope so.
what an ignoramus
http://tk-jk.net/beach/P_beaches_in_atlanta.htm
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?
OH MY GOD CAMELLI’S!!!!
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.
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 =)
i meant i know diverse people from NY who wouldn’t trash ATL.)