PrinceMax wrote:
Are you aware of what goes on in supposedly enlightened places like New York City? And not 40 years ago, but today. NYC had a parade last month in which the man of honor was the head of a domestic terrorist organization. He ran a group that set bombs off in the city. He murdered New Yorkers and now New York is honoring him. He remains unapologetic about his crimes. We have a state legislator and former city councilman who boasted, while in office, about how he wanted to assault whites. His district has kept him in office for 2 decades.
Such is the racial politics of NYC. Good luck finding a place without idiots.
For the record, NYC isn't on our list of places to look at either :) Although I would like to visit there and do the typical tourist things once.
All places, North, South, Mid-West, East, West have idiots and also many good people doing good things. I'll keep visiting the south everyone once in a while, can't miss the Iron Bowl for almost any reason, but at the end of the day, each person / family makes their own decisions based on their own calculus. I'll always be "from the South" since I grew up there and spent the majority of my life (to this point) there. I just probably won't ever move my family back there permanently. There's always a shot (one son really wants to attend UNC and another wants to go to Auburn like mom and dad did and there's always the chance my wife gets 'that' job offer), but generally my wife and I look to other places when we talk about the future. As I'm sure other families look to where they feel they would feel most comfortable, using whatever metric is important to them.