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[NellaBean]

Here is what happens when you live in the south. I recently found out two of my coworkers are cousins. Then I got a Christmas card from a neighbor. I knew them well enough but never knew their last time. It was the same as one of my coworkers.......so I asked my coworker if they knew a So-and-so. Well, yup. He's their cousin! LOL

I was recently at a chicken sale about 30-40 minutes away from where I live.....started chatting up the guy in the next car over. We were talking about the area I lived in. He knew the road I live on and once we kept talking, I realized he is the guy who gave a chicken to my neighbor last year. And he knew that I was the lady who had the horse for a while and who had given that same neighbor some chickens.

Everybody knows everybody. It is quite strange. Nice, but strange.

 

[Chicken Fruit]

Isnt it like that everywhere in the country Bella? Cause up here in the north country EVERYONE is related to EVERYONE else. I learned that really fast when I said something less than savory about a real jerk in the area- said it in passing to a neighbor. found out a few days later it was her cousin, the nephew of another neighbor, the inlaw of another, and so on. I was mortified.

podunk. lol.

Oh, and if theyre not directly related then they've been best friends since birth, went to school together, and were drinking buddies.

 

[kcsunshine]

I went to ETSU in Johnson City 100 years ago. It was a sleepy little town then, has grown up nicely. I think you'll find out in this economy people don't have time or inclination to worry about uprooted Yankees. Why, some of my best friends are Yankees.

 

[kcsunshine]

Quote:
They're not just Yankees, they're Carpetbaggers.

You just have to learn to say "Y'all" a lot and you'll fit in nicely.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

I have lived in the Johnson City area for 15 years now and we love it.