Info on American States?
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Quasqueton
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I'll point out: 1/5th of the Conferderate troops came from North Carolina. The South wouldn't have won the War of Northern Aggression without North Carolina.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
Thank y'all very much.
Quasqueton
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
Thank y'all very much.
Quasqueton
MonsterMash
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I'm not so sure about people being unwilling to relocate being only a US phenomenon I see it in the UK as well, partly because of high levels of home ownership over here and even though our distances look trivial to the US travelling times are long.der_kluge said:
For non-US citizens recruitment I think that if a position is available in NYC or San Francisco or Seattle then there will be more applicants than if a job is in Bentonville or St Louis, etc. I've only been to NYC (for vacation) and St Louis (for work) so my experience of the states is limited. I do think about coming to the US to work at some point (I'm an IT specialist so its not impossible) and have to admit I'd be a lot keener on some locations than others, as a Londoner I'd probably find most US cities small and the climate kind of odd in a lot of places.
Nice to see you have plenty of sterotypes about each other in the US, but you'd find that the Brits could make plenty of jokes about our regions with each other - maybe we should start a thread.
Prince of Happiness
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BiggusGeekus said:
The guns violence thing? Yeah, that's just a polite way of saying "hello." Nobody actually means ill by it. You're just supposed to shoot up, that's all.
Captain Needles
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Around here in the winter I won't get concerned with travelling until it hits at least a foot of snow, and then it will impact my 40 minute drive to work, at night. We just deal with it. For the past two winters we've had weekend storms that left 3 feet of snow in my neighborhood in just under 36 hours. All it meant was 1 night out of work for me, so I could shovel.
However, when I was at Ft. Leonard Wood in Missouri, I saw an entire military base shut down under the threat of 2 inches of snow! I could tell they were simply not used to it. They had these little rubber blade guards on their snow plows, so it wouldn't scratch the pavement or some such insanity. I told the driver the whole point was to scrape the ground, not caress it. All they really ended up doing is create some nicely packed road ice.
And for the record, Northeast drivers can adapt to most winter conditions, be it ice or snow. We have black Ice up here. Absolutely invisible on the road. You know it's there when you're slipping on it. The real problem is meatheads who own an SUV who think they can drive however they want on ice or in a blizzard. I don't care if you have 4 wheel drive, if you hit black ice on the highway while on a slow curve travelling at 65mph, you will probably spend the next couple of hours in a ditch, hospital or police station.
However, when I was at Ft. Leonard Wood in Missouri, I saw an entire military base shut down under the threat of 2 inches of snow! I could tell they were simply not used to it. They had these little rubber blade guards on their snow plows, so it wouldn't scratch the pavement or some such insanity. I told the driver the whole point was to scrape the ground, not caress it. All they really ended up doing is create some nicely packed road ice.
And for the record, Northeast drivers can adapt to most winter conditions, be it ice or snow. We have black Ice up here. Absolutely invisible on the road. You know it's there when you're slipping on it. The real problem is meatheads who own an SUV who think they can drive however they want on ice or in a blizzard. I don't care if you have 4 wheel drive, if you hit black ice on the highway while on a slow curve travelling at 65mph, you will probably spend the next couple of hours in a ditch, hospital or police station.
S. Baldrick
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Dark Jezter said:Addendum: Utah is also home to the best powder skiing and snowboarding in the United States, possibly the world. This is due to the "lake effect", a phenomenan in which moisture from the Great Salt Lake causes the snow in nearby Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons to be exceptionally light and powdery (I'm not a meterologist, so I couldn't explain exactly how it works). Because of it's great winter sports conditions, Utah was chosen to host the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Utah is also famous for rock climbing, river rafting, hiking, hunting, fishing, and other outdoor activities. Utah is also home to the world-famous Slickrock Trail for mountain biking, the Sundance Film Festival which attracts filmmakers from around the world, and the Bonneville Salt Flats where racers routinely break the world land speed record. But mostly it's known for being a big state with lots of Mormons.
(Yes, I'm from Utah and yes, I'm a mormon)
Thank you Dark Jester. My thoughts exactly. There is a lot more to Utah than "just a state full of Mormons.
(Yes, I'm from Utah. No, I'm not Mormon but some of my best friends are.)
drothgery said:
Just another dissent here. Not only is New York City not "in New England proper", but I think a good case could be made that NYC residents, almost regardless of socio-economic class, have *less* in common with their counterparts in Boston than they do with even with those of more distant cities, such as Chicago.
I'm by no means opining on the relative merits of New England versus New Amsterdam. Both are fascinating regions, and I'm lucky enough to have some old Boston roots as well as ancestors among the late, lamented Hudson River Patroons.
More on topic, although mainly of historical value, the OP might want to check out "Albion's Seed" which contains some fascinating discussion of the different folkways English-speaking immigrants brought with them to this country, and how many were retained or reshaped over time.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...ne/purchase/ref=pd_sxp_r0/103-6676494-9155869
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