Keeping it civil instead of returning to our dark ways

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Originally posted by Not Me
Have you been to places like North Carolina? They are becoming increasingly populated by people who speak with Brooklyn accents.

I have, in fact. The Brooklyn-speakers are inhabiting places where NY-based investment banks and other financial institutions are expanding. They're not in the hills.

Anectodal (and thus useless for any probative purpose) evidence: every person I know (sample: 7) who moved to Charlotte from NYC was back within a year, citing the "lifestyle" of NC as utterly cloying (e.g., co-workers making repeated suggestions to come to their church - even after polite refusals) and suffocating.