Burn it all down

Well, given the previous statement about buying mansions here for what a small house costs "up north" which is only partially true, the indigenous people suffer for that. Paying full asking price for a decent little place down here ($150-200K) in contrast to a local buying it for $100-$150 raises home values in the area, driving up home costs & property taxes. Great for sellers, bad for buyers & existing home owners.

As far as a tax base..... Retirees tend to live moderately not extraordinarily... They aren't buying cars, investing in community projects or buying new* stuff.. groceries, utilities & gas.... That's what they buy... So would a couple from anywhere else... But they would be bringing children, buying cars, working in the local labor pool, ect...

I call it a buyers market.

Intelligent people welcome increased spending in their communities.

You reek of resentment.

100% with you brother .

Go to NASA and show me some German immigrants . I don’ t remember any mission leaving from the north . If it wasn’t for the south the north would freeze to death in the dark . Is there any O&G wells in NY or NJ . . As far as that go a plant that supplies electricity to the eastern grid is an out five miles from me . Look where all the new factories are going . As far as technology , have you ever heard of that little Texas city Austin Texas …..In the famous words of the Great Ray Wylie Hubbard . ( Screw You we’re from Texas ) . Mr. Vaughn was the best there ever was.

Hey, don't get me wrong.. I'm perfectly happy exporting people that want to live up north. I'm perfectly happy not importing bigoted trash from up north... I call it a win-win..

You look at everything through an emotional and personalized filter.

States without economic diversification are more vulnerable to events such as the election of a guy who single-handedly destroyed the market for soybeans, bourbon, etc.

Get a clue.

Do you mean by those German immigrants? I don't see any native born southerners involved much.

Yea , just looked . It looked like the south put man on the moon . Not some ghetto in Philadelphia. . Is this a joke.

LOL, just check out the number of patents generated by each state.

https://fredblog stlouisfed org/2021/05/the-distribution-of-patents-across-u-s-states/

Out of the top 20 states in patents generated per capital, I see only TWO red states. 18 are blue states.

The internet? Most definitely NOT invented in the south. You guys have that because of the hard work of the people in the blue states. That is called MOOCHING.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I was raised all over, including some very northern areas of the north (only Southerners know what that means) and, well..... "I ain't lost nuthing up there"

Is this 1987 a JOKE ? I spent 28 years of my life in the north , not all areas but most are a mess. I could talk for hours on this but my best answer to you is ( You are 100% correct , stay there )

Not ..... Developed..... Economically.... Can you define that for me? Because, last I checked, with cultural differences aside, we got everything down here. We got that fancy interwebs..

Please continue to believe that.

Please never visit much less move here.

Stay in the shitholes you've made of your own states.

All those things about the south are true, but you never hear anything about people retiring and moving north....

Funny thing, I just saw this article in the NY Times about retirees moving from the south to NYC!

https://www nytimes com/2026/03/07/nyregion/older-adults-nyc-move.html

I actually have an old colleague (retired) who I just bumped into at a funeral, and didn't realize that he moved from FL to NYC. He's a midwesterner and has a lake home in Wisconsin and his pied-a-terre in NY. Sold his Tampa condo since for the same price he could get the culture and nightlife of NYC.

Anyway, do you know why people move south when they retire? The number one reason is just COST. Things are cheap down there because things are just not as developed economically. So it's just because the south has been so crappy for so long that people up north look around when they are making retirement plans, and realize they can buy mansions with the money that they have accumulated working in the industrious north.

Hardly a great reason to say how great the south is...

LOL....what the actual fuck is PsychoSaggyBoobs on about?

I've never called myself a genius and I'm pretty sure I've never, ever used the word "birthright" ever in my life outside of quoting people, and while I've been to several crappy resturaunts, I wouldn't call them trashcans.

Then again, what do you expect from someone who's admitted to being Trans, admitted to having Narcissistic Personality Disorder, is married....no wait....divorced....no wait, never married....no wait....

Nobody cares what you think

No one cares what you want.

I just want proof of your statements. If proof exists, fine... If not, it's just TDS... It can't be both.

You’re his forum shield maiden Enos.

Show me where I said anything positive about DJT.

I'll wait.....

i’m not from NJ, but I know many people who are and they are far better quality thsn a guy so desperate for authority, he attempts to be strength adjacent by parroting a child molester.

Bravo Deputy Doofus

All those things about the south are true, but you never hear anything about people retiring and moving north....

I've been in almost* every state in the country for work or visiting family. The northeast is by far the worst place in the country, with the exception of a few cities like Chicago, Detroit, L.A. & N.O..

You are from possibly the worst state I've ever visited, New Jersey.... The entire state smelled like garbage and mud... Which explains your personality..

“Agreed, the south is a pretty decent place to live, because trash like y'all don't live here.”

Did someone say trash?

Does anyone care to guess where the prison colonies were located?
Where the descendants of criminals still live?

Where the states with the worst education, healthcare and civil rights violations are?

Ask your wonder twink FF about trash. He said he ate from a trash can, yet his mommy and daddy are soooo important, although his life has been challenging despite his being a genius.

Oh yes, and he said immigrants were trying to take HIS “birthright.”
Trash is about how someone is unable to see anyone who isn’t like themselves and you’re blind Enos.

Agreed, the south is a pretty decent place to live, because trash like y'all don't live here.

You’re awesome.