I already stepped in a Devil Bud ant hill when I was living in Bunnell Florida. The nerve endings in my feet are so shot I didn't even know I was being but til they got to my ankle and by that time the Mother in Law was breaking out the hose I was so covered! You can keep those little buggers! 😂 And my family will keep watching your show❤
Yikes, not sure they've made it to east Tennessee yet. Lots of ant hills, but none (?) that bad yet. :-) Fall? Ain't that what might happen if you stumble real bad, causing you to hit the ground?
I'm from Michigan and went to visit a friend in Florida, and after a long day of drinking beer I stupidly walked right on top of a fire ant hill, they tore me up, I was able to dive into a pool to get them off of me, and it was 90 degrees, with 90% humidity the whole 3 weeks I was there and threatened to rain daily but never did. It was hell after the first week.
I’m from Finger Lakes area but with a southern daddy Now I’ve been in Deep South several yrs He nailed it! I hardly even eat at WH anymore lol rly only to watch the show after 11
As someone who lives in the midwest, and has spent summers both in the South and in New England...I'm not sure if that makes the subway sound better, or worse.
I'm from Chicago, living in Georgia and I can say that is a spot on description of the subway! Only thing missing is the Guy selling socks and loose cigarettes.
I live up here now. I lived in the northern part of the South. The only thing good about so much cold, is the bugs are greatly reduced. Northern Indiana.
As a South Floridian...I have to disagree with Matt...we do have a Fall/Autumn....its just a bit different....we sit and watch the license plates change colors instead of leaves! (as snowbirds arrive) 😊
A quote to remember, "New York subways are like waffle House that move". Matt that will stick with me for a very long time. When you use LA metro transportation you risk life, health and emotional well being.
I spent three years in New York City (86-89) and the subways was the easiest way to get around during the day. You didn't want to ride the subway after dark though.
I still have no idea how Waffle House hasn't co-opted a "dining car" on the NYC subways. Waffle House, if you're listening hit me up with a $100 check for the idea. That shit would make you millions. *Edit* I have officially made the suggestion to Waffle House.
@@Scintillate9 I hail from California, moved to Indiana in my youth. Waffle House is just *chefs kiss*. It's the angry side of comfort that we all truly need.
I picked up my brother in law from the airport. He had flown for a visit from California, no exactly a Yankee but damn sure not Southern. When he got out of the car at my house, he said what in the hell is that noise. I thought a moment and the only sound I could hear was cicadas. I told him, and he was astounded and maybe a little frightened.
Honestly, after moving up north, i would go outside at night and one day i finally realized why it was so eerily peaceful and pleasant to be out at night. It was the lack of crickets. And the lack of humidity, but mostly the crickets.
I miss thunderstorms, crickets, and fireflies. We have storms and fireflies, but not many of either. Somewhat high winds are rough up here because tree roots are more shallow and not as strong. No need to go very deep when there's rarely drought conditions. Trees just tip over with no real root ball exposed. Still cannot get my head wrapped around that one.
@@RoseNZieg California has crickets. There was one behind my refrigerator most of the winter. Every time I got near the fridge, it went quiet. Move away from the fridge, back to making noise.
As a Florida Man, we are able to experience some of those northern things (honking and hockey). Think they came with as a package deal with all the snowbirds and transplants.
As a native southerner living as a yank now, the pizza up here melted my brain. I kept hearing as a younger person how pizza was SO much better up north, but I already loved pizza. How could it be better?! My god, it's a different universe. I love honking! Fall is great, except for cleaning up the leaves. And you can add to the lack of fire ants - no palmetto bugs!
Agreed. I wonder how all the SEC teams enjoyed their views of the game from their couches this year. At least the beer and nachos were cheaper. When I was in SC a lady asked me if I was a Yankee or a damn Yankee and I didn't understand the question. She said a Yankee was someone from the north who came to visit and a damn Yankee was one who stayed. Did not sound like the southern hospitality I heard so much about so I said trust me, madame. From what I've seen so far I am a Yankee through and through, and the only person who wants me to go back from where I came from more than you is me. That one took her a couple of seconds. Otherwise, not a bad experience. One thing I can say for certain is if you go to Charleston and leave hungry it's your own fault.
The Tampa Bay Lightning fandom is pretty dedicated and widespread. Any sport that gives you a 5-minute “timeout” in a penalty box (rather than a multi-game suspension) for punching a guy is a lot of fun to watch.
I feel like the popularity of Hockey in Florida is mainly due to the fact that Florida is straight up filled with New York Transplants. You guys have 1.6 million New Yorkers. 15% of your population comes from New York, New Jersey, Ohio or Pennsylvania.
I was surpised that clear, cold water was not on the list. Being from Michigan, i was a bit concerned about the average temp and color of natural bodies of water in the south. I did not know the love of tea ran that deep.
One of my favorite places on this planet is Lake Winnapasaukee in New Hampshire. The water is so clear that you can watch the snails crawling around 30 feet deep.
The mountains are about the only place you'll find "clear cool water" in the South. But even then I wouldn't drink it right out of the stream, there's bear and deer shit in that water too lol.
I’m a Northerner who loves the South; I wish we as a country could all admit the good things about each other’s regions and come together as a nation of people with our own quirks, foods and lifestyles. Like up here we need good grits, down there it sounds like you desperately need a solid pizza place. Trade?
We have Hunt Brother's Pizza in most Convenience stores, it's pretty awful. We'll trade grits for GOOD pizza as long as you promise not to put sugar in the grits. lol
Spot on RE: hockey. It’s actually a natural sport for native Southerners to enjoy. It’s got the violence of football, the speed of NASCAR, and the theatrics of championship wrestling. Sometimes all in a single shift.
You could have mentioned the beauty of a meadow, glistening in the moonlight with a fresh blanket of pure white snow. Everything else about snow they can keep, but I have to admit, it is pretty. That is, before it is churned up beneath footprints, animal matter, cars turning it into slush and sheer icy coldness of the stuff.
@@lisa2000geese As long as that snowfall comes between late November and early April. I learned that first-hand in 2011, when my home state of New Jersey got hit with mid-winter levels of snowfall on _October 29_ (I still remember the date because one year later to the day was when Hurricane Sandy hit). Turns out, the reason our trees lose their leaves in the winter is to reduce the surface area of their branches before heavy snowfall begins. Even though it wasn't *that* much snow compared to some of the blizzards we've had, it did a ton of damage because of all of the downed tree branches, snapped under the weight of more snow than they could support.
Yeah, I moved away from snow. I'm fine just looking at pics and video. And I'll take Atlanta, where the threat of a light dusting shuts down the city. 😂
As someone who is in the real deep south (Melbourne Australia) I can say that public transportation is such an amazing thing it totally changes the culture of a city. I can get to work in half an hour and no have to worry about parking and can watch RUclips on the way in.
I fell out laughing when he said, "Think of it as a Waffle House that moves." So true!😂😂😂 As far as bugs go, I lived in Indianapolis, IN for six years, and the complete lack of bugs was glorious! I'm from Arkansas, so being bug free for six years was heavenly!
As a Southerner who lived in IN. for several years before I talked my Hoosier wife into moving to TN., I've got to ask, "but what about the giant, hairy, insanely fast centipedes AND the multitude of earwigs, including the outdoor variety that grow massively large?! Oh!, and beyond bugs, spiders by the truckload, including the LARGE, (should be called titanic!), not found in The South, gigantic house spiders that run and sound like little horses!!!? Shit, I forgot the subterranean sun spiders I've only ever encountered in one area of an Indy suburb.
@@evage99 Northern skeeters are slow and dumb. They get drunk on your blood, and sit there gloating while you slap em--then they explode. I'm in Texas now, and these skeeters are ninja, oil-drilling monsters. They attack you from behind, biting your thighs through your jeans! They bite, then leave so you can't see em. Then they bite your elbow, and while your scratching that bite, they'll feast on your neck. I haven't seen most of the ones that bite me. They're evil.
I grew up in Texas we had sticker burs, flying roaches, fire ant, diamond backs & scorpions. Was a wonder to go outside in Indiana bare foot in the grass having no issues.
I'm an Ohio boy (southern Ohio, Appalachian foothills, which I can't truly believe is lumped in with the rest of the North) and my first run-in with Fire Ants was late August 2000 at Parris Island, SC. 18 year old me, outside in the pitch black morning, waiting to start my initial PT test in order to hopefully begin bootcamp and become a Marine. As I stand there, scared completely sh*tless and questioning every decision that lead to that point, my feet and lower legs began to feel like they were on fire. Too afraid to move (we were in formation), I just stood there, gritting my teeth, hoping that whatever was happening to my legs would pass. A few seconds later the recruit next to me starts wigging out which drew the attention of the Drill Instructor. The DI comes over screaming because of the commotion, then immediately shoves me off of a shin deep fire ant mount and proceeded to berate me while giving me permission to swat the ants off of me. It took my legs about 2 weeks to fully heal, but I didn't miss any training. You folks can definitely keep those god awful things, lol.
You know I hear ya there guy. I personally always considered Appalachia its own region as such it has its own culture and what not. Its not East Coast, its not Dixie, and its not Great Lakes, but its kinda sorta a mix of all and none of them at the same time. Either way, I don't know how people can constantly drive there without losing your sanity. Appalachian roads are scary and make me stay in my frozen home.
Appalachia is a region unto itself. As an Appalachian by birth and heritage I see how different we are. I feel like it's getting recognized more but it's often ignored, misunderstood, or maligned.
#9 Summer. Northern summers are the perfect blend of 75 degree days and 65 degree nights (perfect sleeping weather). Only thing wrong with them is they're too short. #10 Snow plows. Sure, we get some awfully cold stretches in the winter, but everything does NOT grind to a halt like it does when the south dips below freezing for 5 minutes.
Ok #9 baseball. Ever been to Fenway Park, or Yankee Stadium or Wriggly Field? It's a whole other experience. You may have football down south and we will give you that but in baseball we have you beat. #10 seafood. New England is second to none on our seafood dishes. Nothing like a fresh lobster roll on a summer's day.
As a North Carolinian I must defend our Southerness. After all, we have more than one type of BBQ here and all the happy pigs to prove it. More regional accents than you can shake a stick at. Enough allergens to send anyone home with a damp bandana. Chicken pastry AND chicken and dumplin’s. My god: NASCAR for Pete’s sake. How dare you, sir!
Yes to all of this! Who can name a greater food rivalry that Eastern Carolina vs. Western Carolina? But seriously, it drives me crazy when people act like the urban South ain't really Southern. Despite what some people may think, there's more than one way to be Southern.
As a driver that occasionally (and accidentally) sits at a green light for a few seconds, I'd just like to say a big thank you to all those people behind me who honk and let me know the light's changed.
Yes, there's an art to honking without sounding aggressive. When you drive a different car than usual, you tend to honk aggressively by accident as you adjust to the new horn.
Spot on with the hockey mention. The key is, you have to see a game live. It is different in person than on tv. We have a new team in Savannah, the Ghost Pirates. They sold out 33 of 36 games and set echl records in sellouts, merchandise sales, season tickets, etc. in their first year. Will probably break those records this year in year 2. The south can and will love hockey if they give it a chance.
Savannah is far from an NFL team or a major college team. Do they have good high schoolfootball? Small-time hockey can work in places like Savannah because football and other "southern" sports aren't dominating people's lives.
@@jmit3491 - I didn't claim that there are no people of Native American descent in Savannah today. And the Trail of Tears wasn't the only displacement of Native Americans in Georgia. Lastly, how much influence do the Native Americans in Savannah have over the local, state, or federal governments, while you whine about tourist transplants?
@@jmit3491 - I'm not a fan of gentrification, either. The past can't be changed, but pointing out more wrong doesn't justify your whining about tourist transplants. Just let it go, dude. You can't win this one, and I sometimes complain about things with poor context and justification, too. Humans are flawed beings. I was just trying to give you food for thought, but you got defensive and went on the offensive. 😆
Im a dual citizen born in Canada but living in South Georgia for the last thirty years. I love the south...but you are absolutely correct about Hockey. Its awesome!
We DO have our own pizza...mostly in Louisiana. We have a statewide pizza chain named "Johnny's Pizza House." Every spring during crawfish season they make a "Sweep the Swamp" pizza. It has shrimp, crawfish tails, andouille sausage, and other toppings. This is as close to an "officially Southern" pizza as we can get.
Nah, North Carolina is very southern to majority southern outside of like a few places (Raleigh, Apex, Cary, Chapel Hill, Asheville). The Charlotte burbs are clearly southern, though there is a substantial number of transplants. They just haven't taken over like they have around Raleigh.
@@willp.8120 Of course they do. It was just a little joke since our dear brother from Alabama mentioned it. Relax! Of all the things I will argue about the relative merits of our regional climates isn't one of them. Except for Minnesota. They can keep that one way up there. 😉
Years ago I was visiting family in the burbs of Chicago at Christmastime and got to witness a pee-wee league hockey match in which the players were so padded most were about as wide as they were tall, but skated like maniacs who had breakfasted on candy bars and rocket fuel!!! The hockey parents were just as rabid as their Southern little league baseball parents I was more familiar with…. Easy to see the comparisons…
Dude, you're making me homesick for the nw illinois suburbs during fall! The riot of leaves in fall colors only begins to touch the season's splendor. The mellow scent of the fall leaves is complimented by an occasional bonfire or fireplace smoke trail curled through the air as one walks home at twilight. Oh, how I wish I could see and feel it again❤❤❤
Yay, Fall! I'm a northern suburban Illinoisan (we don't need to name what we're a suburb of, haha). I went to college at U of I in Champaign (middle of the State of Illinois), and students had created an entire club to celebrate all things Fall! It was called "October Lovers," and it remains one of my fondest memories.
The thing about fire ants is so true. Several years ago a young couple lived next to me for a while. They were not from the south and he was in the Coast Guard. I saw them right before they moved to Alaska due to his transfer. I was like "Wow! Alabama to Alaska. That is a huge change." They both said moving to Alaska was great since they didn't have fire ants there.
I moved to the south from Jersey, had 0 clue what a fire ant was. found out the hard way by going in the backyard barefoot. I do miss the pizza so when hubby goes to Jersey I ask him to bring me a couple of large pies
@@Jerseybytes2 my husband is from Tabernacle NJ and misses the Canada Dry Vanilla Cream Soda. He says the stuff we have in Western NY is just plain gross. It tastes like fizzy cotton candy to me lol
Great job! Even though I wouldn't want to live anywhere but Alabama the Beautiful, I must admit that many Yankee activities look like a lot of fun to me. Snow skiing, sledding, ice fishing and skating all seem like they would be such a blast! I think that it is fun to make jokes at our regional differences knowing that if the SHTF, we are all Americans first and foremost. I am thankful for that.
@@deed5811 OMG, how could I forget that? That is the number one thing I want to try. I grew up as ' river rat' on the Chattahoochee so jet skis are our thing. But, I bet my husband has heard me say 100 times, "I want to do that" when we have seen snow mobiles on TV. One of these days.......
@@auburnkim1989 Come to Minnesota! Jet skis and snowmobiles are both big here; I have a lot of neighbors with a trailer in their driveway that just swaps out what's riding on it -- jet skis in the summer, and snowmobiles in the winter. Super, super fun.
There’s no such thing as “snow skiing”. It’s simply “skiing”. The snow is implied for obvious reasons. There are only two types of skiing: skiing and water skiing.
Just to add some context the national championship game is between Michigan and Washington. A northern team and a western team. So you can add college football to your list Matt!
didnt Michigan cheat? Not sure what they did but i overheard some friends talk about it. I was too busy being on the emotional rollercoaster that is being a Kentucky basketball fan.
@@MooseGooseThe1st the investigation hasn't been concluded yet so we will see. It looks like they will get to keep the national championship but the previous two years' wins might get taken away
Don't count out Detroit style until you actually try it. The crust has this ciabatta-ish thing going on, with a super crispy and butter bottom and a light and airy dough so you get a really satisfying mix of textures. Aside from that, it usually has more cheese than a traditional pizza and the cheese burning on the edges of the pan is just plain good (as long as they don't actually burn it).
New York = Dominoes + Chicago = Pizza Pie Detroit = Cheesy bread The best pizza is a decent tavern style thin crust. These can be found all over the place, but its tough to find it done well sometimes. St Louis has been trying to claim this pizza as its own in the recent years. Honestly, we might just have to let them. They really have nothing else.
This feels like the opening of peace negotiations between two estranged nations. Thank you for the kind words. Best wishes on the fire ants stealing your trucks - they're just after the air conditioning. Maybe you could just take them to the ice rink?
I laughed so hard about the tenderloin sandwich. "I know we didn't invent it because - no gravy!" Those things are delicious and also ridiculous. (I'm a (from the very north of the state) Hoosier.)
Fall is gorgeous. It is my favorite season. The weather is just perfect. Not too hot, not too cold. Brisk. Fall is brisk and refreshing. I will also agree with you on public transport. I love trains. Everywhere should have more trains. It helps the economy by providing cheap transport, massively expanding the places where you can look for and maintain jobs, cuts down on gridlock, and allows you to turn your commute to and from work into "me time" when you can nap or read a book or do some additional work so that when you get home to your family everything is done and you're ready for family time.
which is why the south will NEVER get it. legislators don't want the average voter to be able to move around easily. they WANT clogged highways that drive us insane.
Trains need very high population density to work well, though, and most of the U.S. doesn't have anywhere near that population density. Using trains for commuting doesn't exactly work if you have an actual house with land. Trains are not actually cheap at all. They are expensive to operate and extremely expensive to build. But their cost per ride can be low (at least on short, local rides) when population density is high enough to have very high ridership, like in NYC. When the population is more spread out, trains will be more expensive than driving. Trains are certainly a great solution in *some* places, but they are not even a reasonable, let alone good, solution for passenger transport in most places, especially in a country as spread out as the U.S. If you look at the places where trains actually do work well, you will find that every single one of them has one thing in common: far higher population density than what most of the U.S. has, both in terms of how close large cities are to each other (for inter-city trains) and how densely packed everyone lives in (usually relatively expensive) small apartments. Personally, I prefer my way of commuting: I wake up, take a shower, and walk into the other room where my computer is. Or perhaps walk out to the gazebo in my back yard and take a laptop with me. Commute takes about 20 seconds each way. Even when I need to go in to the office, though, I can be there in 5 minutes in my car, since my office is not located in an overcrowded city center. With more and more work being able to be done remotely these days, I don't see large offices and in dense city centers being nearly as important in the future as they've been in the past. It's just not economically efficient to pack that many people into such small areas. Any given standard of living will cost much more in a densely-packed city..
@@vbscript2 You're right that commuter trains do need a particular density to work. It would not work everywhere. Though places with houses actually could use commuter trains. The population density doesn't require apartment complexes. However, it is way cheaper than driving. I lived on the East Coast in Connecticut, which Boston to New Jersey has commuter rail systems, so it was very convenient. The price of a monthly ticket into Stamford where I worked was between $80 and $100 over the years I used it. At one point, a lady joined my commuter group (By which I just mean she commuted at the same time that I did, as you get this kind of community going on among people who wait for the train and travel together.) And I don't remember why did did it, but she later figured out she was spending $480 in gas to make the same commute when she had to drive the whole way. So the train was insanely cheap by comparison. Using the train saved her, $400 per month, or $4,800 per year, and was more relaxing on top of that. Also, there was a study done in Texas between a city that used commuter rail and a city that did not. I'm going to guess it was Dallas (I think that has trains) and Houston. But anyway, same country, same state government. And overtime what they discovered was that the property values in the city with trains increased while in the city without trains, all the value that went into the houses in the first city tended to go into increased commuter expenses. I'm probably not explaining that well, and it's been years, but, like people had to shell out the same amount of money when you combined mortgages and property taxes and commuter expenses, but in the city with trains, they essentially retained the wealth spent in the price of their house, which in the city without trains, the money kind of blew away in the expenses of the commute. And, you know, once the mortgage was paid off, the people with trains were able to stash more away in savings, while the people with trains still had the high commuting expenses, and their houses were worth less on the market. The US's main issue with train lines is not that we don't have the track, but that government sold track to industrial concerns in a lot of places. The New York corridor is one of the few places that retained the tracks and kept them running.
@@jenniferhansesBut that's all assuming that you want to commute into a big city to work in the first place, which is rapidly becoming less and less necessary. Factories are rarely in big cities anymore (cheaper to build them in smaller cities) and the white-collar jobs that have still been bringing people into office complexes in large cities are mostly able to be done remotely from home now. The most efficient way to commute is to simply not commute at all or to commute only a relatively short distance in a smaller town. The U.S.'s issue with (passenger) trains is that the U.S. is very large with a population that is very spread out (aside from a few exceptions like the Northeast Corridor that you've mentioned, where the population is relatively dense, especially around NYC.) You're right that the U.S. does have lots of rail track - the most of any country in the world and by a significant margin. However, the government didn't "sell" most of that track to anyone, but rather never owned it in the first place. The vast majority of the rail lines were built by the private rail operators. Of course, this is inter-city rail lines. Light rail within a city typically was and remains owned by the (local) government. The U.S. rail network is used primarily to haul freight around, which has a vastly higher (positive) economic and environmental impact than if that same rail were used for passengers instead (though most of it is also available for passenger use if an operator actually wants to do that.) Boxes don't care if they take 2-3 days to cross the country. People do. The U.S. hauls about 12x as much freight ton-kilometers per capita by rail as the EU does, for example. Rail is great for getting vast quantities of heavy stuff where speed isn't important across vast over-land distances. It's not so great at transporting people across vast distances, least of all when those people aren't already concentrated into small areas, which they aren't in most of the U.S.
@@vbscript2 You seem to be acting off of some incorrect assumptions. 1) During the pandemic, people worked from home. Now that the pandemic is over, businesses are pushing for more in-office time, and hybrid or at home work options are evaporating. There have been numerous articles about this in the last few months. 2) Also in regards to working from home, quite a lot of workers don't have what it takes to do so long term, and actually need office face time. Working from home is psychologically damaging for them, as they need human contact. And it ruins their focus as they can't keep to schedules. More hybrid options might work for such people, but they actually do need time in the office on a weekly basis. The number of people who can thrive purely at home is estimated at 10 to 15% of the work force. 3) "Assuming people want to work in big cities." Trains actually work really well for people who want to work in small towns and midsize cities as well. They broaden the scope of available jobs for those people who can't afford cars, as well as where such people can live. They can drop you off at the next town over. Big cities anchor commuter rail, but there are benefits for all the towns in between. This is also an ideal situation for moving to a hybrid workforce, as they can live out away from the city, but still make it into town when they need to meet up face to face. If you're actually advocating for more hybrid work, trains are likely the way to go. They also provide unique shopping experiences, as you can take the train into a small town and wander the main street for a day to see a different culture and buy local produce at farmers markets. 4) The US and various state governments were required to finance railway projects. They have sold out most of those interests to corporations in most cases.
As a person from North Carolina, How dare you. We are just as Southern as any of the lower states. Our horrible summer weather proves it. Plus the best BBQ in the nation.
See I think it's a way of honking that needs to be established. The BEEEEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEP of the Yankee is so uncivil. It needs to be a nice BEEP BEEEP BEEP, more like a "hey over here!" beep as opposed to the more annoying " *expletive* move you *expletive* *expletive* motherless *expletive* *expletive* *expletive* eating bad humping *expletive* *expletive* *expletive* " See what I mean?
"I'll see y'all at the College Football National Championship. I'm just kidding; y'all ain't gonna' be there." As a Big Ten fan, that was a real gut punch.
I'm pretty sure that the National Championships has a rule that no PAC12-, PAC-11 PAC-Whatever they're now will EVER end up in the Championships. So much for my poor Sun Devils. They never get any respect.
As a Michigander who moved south after college, I love this. Outside of the heat, #1 (pizza) has been my main complaint. The South does pretty much all food better, with pizza being the one exception. And #8 (hockey), I couldn't agree more. I found the Birmingham bulls when I moved there, took my now-wife to her first hockey game there and she loved it, now we watch the Knoxville Ice Bears. Every southerner I've taken to a game has loved it, y'all just need to give it a chance (in person, don't try watching it on TV at first).
Nope. They do real steaks horrible. All that grass and scrub fed crap you have to drown in sauce or take super care in cooking...when you can just buy a cornfed steak from Iowa or Minnesota and it melts in your mouth.
As a native Florida boy for my entirety, visiting the north for the first time in the fall/winter was an experience. The north has these nano-squirrels they call chipmunks. These tiny bastards are not what I imagined 😂. Also, seeing locals walk around in 50-60° arctic cold in shorts and a t-shirt, like it's a summers day at the beach, blew my mind. Ya'll know it's freezing out here, right? Lastly, I never realized how accustomed I've become to the smell of swamp. The lack of sun baked detritus lingering in the air was quite refreshing...haha. No matter all the northerly perks, nothing beats Daytona Beach @ 85° on Christmas day. ❤😂
Fall is fun here near Chicago because it can't decide what it wants to be. In September it cools down a little, then in early October ramps back up to high summer temps (for us). Then it remembers it's the north and drops 40 degrees in a night.
As a Yankee who moved down to the South, yeah I miss autumn and absolutely hate the bugs, but everything else is better down South. Visiting family up north and going out to eat is a nightmare. I asked a waitress for a sweet tea and she said, "We can put Splenda in it." Y'all I almost cried it was the saddest thing I ever heard
Fall is honestly the best. It's the perfect blend of heat, not too much sun hours, no bugs, and a calm vibe overall. Try it in Ohio. Indian summer is worth it... And we have drive thru stores 😊😊
I prefer winter. Don't look at me like that. I'm not alone. At least 2% of the population prefers winter. It's a totally normal preference to have. In fact, I used to have a coworker who moved up here (to Ohio) from Georgia, because living down there she _missed_ winter. She left a year or two ago though. Got a job in Alaska, working for a cruise line, at one of their stops. One of those places you can't drive to, because it's impossible to build roads on sheer cliff faces that are also permafrost.
I have lived half of my life in the South and half in the North. Three additions to your list: mosquitoes that do not leave irritating bites, cockroaches that do not nest inside your house, and tornadoes instead of hurricanes (tornadoes are more selective).
Why? There's plenty of Dollar Generals in the north. Maybe not quite as many, but there's quite a few, along with Dollar (and a quarter) Tree and Family Dollar. I know a town in Michigan that's got a grocery store, three dollar stores (one of each), two gas stations, and a fruit stand.
Matt was so close to a valid point about pizza, but then he badmouthed Detroit Style. Why would we risk our lives in America's most dangerous city to get it if it wasn't incredible? He is right about Southern pizza, though. It's like Northern BBQ. Gas station BBQ in the South is better than the highest rated BBQ joint in the North.
I'm from Michigan so I understood all of these. Truth be told I didn't even know what a fire ant was until a few years ago. My number 9 or 10 would be the ability to drive in more than half an inch of snow. I've blazed a new trail in feet of snow a number of times in a rear wheel drive F150 with no traction control and been perfectly fine.
9, maple syrup 10, dressing up mini dogs/as they live with us in our dollhouse sized homes :) + 1 the amount of languages one comes across just one day (with equal amount of different restaurants) ++weblove you back South!♥️
As a South Jersey girl that lived in Georgia for 24 years, and now in the Pittsburgh area, I agree with everything that you said. They love to honk their horns up here. Hopefully, I will move back to the south real soon as I'm terribly missing it (expect for the bugs).
These may be a couple weird ones, but here's my try at two more: #9: Bagpipes. EVERY parade involving fire or police in the North (or at least New England and its environs) involves this instrument 10 times more obnoxious than a Mississippi State cowbell. And the sound is majestic ... or the worst thing you've ever heard. #10: History. You go to Boston, and everywhere you look is a place where important things happened 200+ years ago. And then you have the US's oldest permanent concrete structure dedicated to college athletics a few miles away in Cambridge, Harvard Stadium. History is EVERYWHERE around here. #11: The Big East ... you know, before realignment killed it. Best damn basketball conference ever seen.
Jamestown Virginia was inhabited before Boston, and St. Augustine Florida is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the United States... by like, a 100 years or so before New England...
There is history down here. If you want European colonization history, there are Spanish settlements older than the British colonies; there are natural history to behold like caverns of stalagtites that took millions of years to make; and it certain parts you can even find the more permanent native American settlements and artefacts that are older.
@@jamiefrontiera1671 Plus, all of our historical places are seemingly haunted and full of spooky, supernatural shit. And even places that aren't historical are seemingly haunted, bewitched, or ensorcelled. Granted, that also just might just be Louisiana.
As a Southern transplant raised in New Hampshire, I was glad to see Fall and hockey listed. Both are exquisite. Truly excellent pizza can be found South of the Mason-Dixon Line. Antico Pizza Napoletana in Atlanta makes a legit world-class pie.
I used to go to hockey games when I was a teenager in the late 60's. It was in Greensboro, N.C. We are NOT fringe. I saw my Generals get crushed by the Russians 12-4. Still loved them. Went to a lot of regular games. I think they still have a team
MM - As a double transplant (MI to NC then back to MI) I can tell you that we Yankees cannot do Biscuits here in the north, but yes - all pizza in the south is substandard. Having said that, I do LUV "Bojangles" and "Cook-Out" - when we so south to visit the families, it's great to get into Bojangles country! : )
As someone who was born and raised in NYC but has lived in the South for a majority of my adult life, your observations are spot on! I still have my accent to this day but now I have a hybrid of NYC slang mixed with southern slang when I interact with people 🙃 😅
I was in Canada a few years ago and when I was walking through the hotel lobby there were a bunch of people sitting around mesmerized by the TV. I took a look at what they were watching. Curling. Then I started watching. Then I started kind of getting into it. It is the most oddly engaging sport I've ever seen. It's not a real big sport in Texas. There is only one sport in Texas. On that note, however this Aggie vs Alabama thing turns out tommorow SEC Roll Call will have material to work with!
Matt you are hysterical and I'm glad you're growing on YT!! Have a fantastic day and don't ever stop making us 😂 laugh because of the God's honest truth about our beloved South!! ❤️❤️
As a Long Islander who moved to South Carolina at 11, I agree with everything except for the fact that we do have fire ants up there too. Also Number 9 is Bagels
I was happy in Florida for most of my life, but decided that enough was enough about 8 years ago. I'm loving Maine, but the winters are tough to get used to. That said, I can always put on more clothing whereas in Florida I could only take so much off before someone called the cops.
Yeah, and so much better eating. Iowa (and some others) deer is mostly corn and soybean fed, not that nasty scrub fed crap from down south. Aaaahhh...cornfed venison, melt in mouth happiness.
Some parts of the South have glorious fall color. The sad thing is that the North is creeping South; the top half of Virginia has more Yankees than Southerners now. The only things I might miss if I moved back to the South are bagels and pizza. Heck, I could live without bagels and pizza in exchange for good barbecue and fried chicken. One thing the South has that the North is quickly losing, is manners. Matt, you are the best!❤😂
We have manners , but southerners move too slow in our over crowded states and don't get to see them until they learn to keep up and stay out of the way.
@@From-North-Jersey LOL, I live in Southern NJ😁 Maybe if people weren’t always in such a hurry, we’d get to see your good manners. 😉 I will say this, NJ is really pretty state once you get off the highways. If you were in Gloucester County on south, you might think you were in the South, even down to the accent.
@@janelleg597 Washington, DC, Maryland and Northern Va, used to be Southern. I grew up in Manassas, men, young and old tipped their hat to my mom and they always removed their hats when entering a building-except maybe at the farm store, Southern States.
@@landonmichelle I can agree with this statement. I live in Northern NC, and the weather we have here is a lot cooler than more southern states. Not nearly as cold as the north, but not a blazing inferno.
Bow down before the North!! I am from New England and for number 9 you could have listed Blizzards. It's terrific. You get 15 inches of snow and your boss will not question why you can't come into work for two straight days because he's also snowed in and trying to get somebody plow him out. Schools get closed too so you send the kids downstairs to the man cave while you and the wife day drink and catch up on the backlog of tv shows. And yes remote work exists but nobody expects you to actually work when there's that much snow outside.
9. Full basements - most houses have them up here and they're useful 10. Concerts - a lot of bands skip most of the South except Atlanta and maybe Florida making live music a rarity down there.
First house my wife and I bought was on a slab. Lived in Connecticut my whole life and it was a first for me. Thought the Connecticut building code required at least a crawl space. Can't fathom living in a state where that's normal.
I was born in Indiana, raised in Georgia, so I can verify the accuracy of these statements. Hockey is fun to watch by the way. Personally, I think we should make it a summertime sport, so when its 105 degrees outside, we can go sit inside a nice chilly hockey arena.
History of NHL in Atlanta GA .... Flames and Thrashers moving to two wonderful grateful Canadian cities (Calgary and Winnipeg)! The third Atlanta NHL team would be very welcome and fit nicely in Quebec City! The Atlanta's best ice show happens each winter with "you guys" driving on I-65 and I-20.
I got hooked on hockey in the mid-70s, when I was in Hotlanta. I had season tickets for a few years then moved away. The affection for the game has never waned, and now I'm a Canes fan. It's a shame that hockey didn't last in Atlanta, but maybe the third time is the charm. GO CANES!
@@carlhuffman454 Are you referring to the Hartford Whalers "on vacation" Most of the "Canes" fan base live around on point of the RTA as a "Concentrated Area of Relocated Yankees." As a Whalers fan, I moved my support to the Canes and enjoy their success in the Carolinas! " LET GO WHALERS" still sings in my heart.
Thanks for the reply. I live in SC and have no axe to grind with Hartford or its Whalers fans. As to the vacation idea, for the last five years or so that has been over for our team. GO CANES!@@rkleedham
@@p-47thunderbolt57 I do not live in the area, but I have been to The Canes' games at home. I like the support they have and I do support them. To me the Canes franchise will always be rooted in New England (old WHA days) 🥰🐳🐋🌀
As a child of a "mixed-marriage" (half Southern, half Yankee lol), I appreciate different things about each. This is great. Edited to add: Don't me wrong, I'm a UGA girl, but you're acting like Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State aren't sitting there at the top of the rankings above most SEC teams, my friend. Justice for non-SEC football! 😂
Girl!!! Same here! Born and bred in Georgia, but I’m half GA half SOUTH Jersey. UGA is my ride or die but those Nittany Lions are looking real good this year (that’s my yankee team).
We got a lot of drive-thru stores in Florida as well not as many as there were a few decades ago but let's face it we're on the fringe of southern also
As one of those "Yankees" from New England, I found this funny especially at the end when he poked fun at us. I could suggest for either #9 or #10 driving is snow is something we do better at. But even we have stupid fos in the north that are used to ice and snow who still can't drive properly in it.
Part of all that is the road care - the South ain't got salt trucks and plows like the North does. Don't need 'em except for once every three-four years.
@@Minalkra Being from NJ myself, this was something that blew my mind when I got stationed at Dyess AFB in Texas. MAYBE half an inch of snow hit the ground and the entire town shut down for a couple days. Apparently, at the time I was there 10 years ago, Abilene had 1 plow, 1 salt truck, and 1 guy to drive both. So on top of everyone in the town not knowing how to handle it, there was no way for them to stop the melting snow from freezing into ice during the night.
These are a few of the many reasons why I moved to Chicago from Texas as a 5th generation Texan. And yes I live in the south side of Chicago not in Hyde Park . It isn’t that bad and I’ve seen the crime and city change since I started coming here ten years ago. I’ve lived here for almost 3 years. Lived in TN and CO before for a couple years a piece. You forgot they have the option to not sweat here year around and they do have winter and they don’t have bugs in the same way we do down south. Btw Matt were Texan not southern, southwest if anything. That being said I am very proud of my Texas roots and heritage. The short video you posted about with a cold front and chili was hilarious and timely because today for my Chicagoan friends I made them real Texas chili because I trashed talked all the tomatoes soup and ragú sauce they try passing off as chili and it drives me nuts. They all fell in love and I even made a brisket red chili like they used to most common among cowboys on cattle drives.i must admit aside from many different cuisines the north lacks in spices and that is where southerners prevail we are very generous with the seasonings. I had a brisket today in Chicago and I did not hold back how bland and dry it is and asked where the dry rub is.
Yes, I grew up here in Wisconsin and didn't really learn anything about herbs and spices, which we also didn't really use unless a recipe said to, with the exceptions of cinnamon and black pepper. As I got into my teens, we were eating even more carefully/healthy, me esp. per my health, and cut out all things such as the "cream of" soups, packaged bullions, and anything else with MSG or other junk in em. So, in an effort to make something like a soup or casserole with those midwest staples of my parent's upbringing and local cookbooks, I started experimenting with the spice rack and paying attn. to any info on their use that came my way. I was super busy, and ever more so for years, on our dairy farm though, so, I didn't cook a lot or take a class or anything, and believe me, when your exhausted and hungry, just salt and pepper on a hamburger, and ditto plus butter on plain veggies, tastes wonderful. I have long been a fan of more plain flavors, for what they are, than some tho. Like plain cheerios over honey nut, plain oatmeal with just cream, and like I said w the meat n veg. We often had really good, homegrown basics tho, too and that helps a LOT. While our beef animal wasn't 100% grass fed, she ( usually it was a free martin) WAS mainly pastured and forage fed, not often very highly grain finished, and never knee deep in manure for weeks at time like even my Dad's cousin's bunch of steers lived for the last many months or so of their life... ( my husband can smell the manure smell in a feedlot animal being cooked... ). Anyway, all I'd meant to say is that I think the main reason for lack of spices used here is that things like peppers aren't native here, and in WI and MN, we're very heavily settled by Norwegians. We Germans use strong flavors but many of those flavors, recipes, foods had fallen out of popularity/common usage. From hearty rye bread to sauerkraut to sauerbraten to sweet n sour hot german potato Salad. Parsley, Dill, onion, caraway, sage, thyme, vinegars, pickled beets, eggs and herring.., beer brats, cheeses incl. stinky ones (!) ... apples, plums, rhubarb, custards, puddings... yum ! Mostly not the types of flavors you're thinking of, I bet !
'Devil Bugs'. I'm a northerner (New England), but I lived in Florida for a few years as a teen. One year, I was helping a neighbor move bricks, and my right leg sunk *up to my knee* into a nest of fire ants. That was a new kind of pain.
Hockey: Absolutely see hockey in person if you get the chance. It just does not translate well to tv unless you've seen a few games live. It is SO different in person. I used to go to see the minor league games at the Dorton Arena in Raleigh before they got the Hurricanes, and you really get a whole new appreciation of it in person. And man those games were great. So many fights. But really seeing the whole rink you get to understand it better, it's like faster basketball in some ways. Yeah, I compared it to basketball.
Subscribe to this channel or step in a pile of devil bugs
Aaaah helll no I already subscribed so you can keep your devil bugs
I already stepped in a Devil Bud ant hill when I was living in Bunnell Florida. The nerve endings in my feet are so shot I didn't even know I was being but til they got to my ankle and by that time the Mother in Law was breaking out the hose I was so covered! You can keep those little buggers! 😂 And my family will keep watching your show❤
As a native Michigander, Detroit style is way better then Chicago. Chicago deep dish is not pizza.
Yikes, not sure they've made it to east Tennessee yet. Lots of ant hills, but none (?) that bad yet. :-) Fall? Ain't that what might happen if you stumble real bad, causing you to hit the ground?
I'm from Michigan and went to visit a friend in Florida, and after a long day of drinking beer I stupidly walked right on top of a fire ant hill, they tore me up, I was able to dive into a pool to get them off of me, and it was 90 degrees, with 90% humidity the whole 3 weeks I was there and threatened to rain daily but never did. It was hell after the first week.
As a New Yorker now living in the south, describing the subway as a moving Waffle House is spot on. Well done.
I’m from Finger Lakes area but with a southern daddy
Now I’ve been in Deep South several yrs
He nailed it!
I hardly even eat at WH anymore lol rly only to watch the show after 11
The difference is that in Waffle House, most of the guns are legal. On the NYC Subway, none of them are.
Very accurate indeed😂
As someone who lives in the midwest, and has spent summers both in the South and in New England...I'm not sure if that makes the subway sound better, or worse.
I'm from Chicago, living in Georgia and I can say that is a spot on description of the subway! Only thing missing is the Guy selling socks and loose cigarettes.
"Fall, we don't even get that." Aint that the truth.
We do, it's just two hours in the afternoon on Christmas Day.
we do get a fall, like everytime you have something important the bottom will fall the fuck out of the sky just long enough to ruin your plans
We do in AR, sometimes it just doesn't get here til late November
Fall starts next week. This offer not valid in South Carolina.
Try living in S. Texas.
That's what's so great about our cold weather in the upper Midwest -- it kills off the big bugs.
Fewer snakes and spiders too.
We clear ice and snow off the roads and parking lots with a quickness. I love that !
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@@nebelungpixie9373 And you are very welcome here!
With the difference being that when the mosquitoes do come out, they are /hungry/ and swarm anything that moves. And the blackflies.
I live up here now. I lived in the northern part of the South. The only thing good about so much cold, is the bugs are greatly reduced. Northern Indiana.
As a South Floridian...I have to disagree with Matt...we do have a Fall/Autumn....its just a bit different....we sit and watch the license plates change colors instead of leaves! (as snowbirds arrive) 😊
Ah, the blue haired migration. Yeah, we have this in Arizona as well.
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Ah yes....we have an abundance of Silver Swooped Dickie Doos...this time of the year too! 🤭🤣
This easily ranks as a top 5 comment in my book! I laughed a little too hard at that.
Watch the iguanas falling from the trees as the season changes.
A quote to remember, "New York subways are like waffle House that move". Matt that will stick with me for a very long time. When you use LA metro transportation you risk life, health and emotional well being.
I spent three years in New York City (86-89) and the subways was the easiest way to get around during the day. You didn't want to ride the subway after dark though.
I still have no idea how Waffle House hasn't co-opted a "dining car" on the NYC subways. Waffle House, if you're listening hit me up with a $100 check for the idea. That shit would make you millions.
*Edit* I have officially made the suggestion to Waffle House.
Possibly the funniest observation Matt has made yet.
as a northener this made me suddenly understand waffle houses lol
@@Scintillate9 I hail from California, moved to Indiana in my youth. Waffle House is just *chefs kiss*. It's the angry side of comfort that we all truly need.
I picked up my brother in law from the airport. He had flown for a visit from California, no exactly a Yankee but damn sure not Southern. When he got out of the car at my house, he said what in the hell is that noise. I thought a moment and the only sound I could hear was cicadas. I told him, and he was astounded and maybe a little frightened.
Honestly, after moving up north, i would go outside at night and one day i finally realized why it was so eerily peaceful and pleasant to be out at night. It was the lack of crickets. And the lack of humidity, but mostly the crickets.
I miss thunderstorms, crickets, and fireflies. We have storms and fireflies, but not many of either.
Somewhat high winds are rough up here because tree roots are more shallow and not as strong. No need to go very deep when there's rarely drought conditions. Trees just tip over with no real root ball exposed. Still cannot get my head wrapped around that one.
you only have crickets in the more rural areas.
@@RoseNZieg thats just not true lol. I grew up 15 minutes from a downtown ma southern city of 1 million plus and heard crickets often at night
@@RoseNZieg California has crickets. There was one behind my refrigerator most of the winter. Every time I got near the fridge, it went quiet. Move away from the fridge, back to making noise.
As a Florida Man, we are able to experience some of those northern things (honking and hockey). Think they came with as a package deal with all the snowbirds and transplants.
There’s even a drive through store in Tampa somewhere. I can’t remember where I saw it but I had no idea what it was until I saw this video lol
They did and your teams have been annoyingly good the past several years.
That’s the New Yorkers
fl is no longer in the south
It's on South Dale Mabry in South Tampa. I've been there
As a native southerner living as a yank now, the pizza up here melted my brain. I kept hearing as a younger person how pizza was SO much better up north, but I already loved pizza. How could it be better?! My god, it's a different universe.
I love honking!
Fall is great, except for cleaning up the leaves.
And you can add to the lack of fire ants - no palmetto bugs!
A different universe indeed
Southerners don’t even get it
I could eat 4 pcs easily
Now this crap, I’ll pass
I just get homesick for real pizza
Connecticut pizza is amazing too. Make sure to head out to New Haven.
Detroit style pizza is amazing. And I say this as a Chicagoan.
Can id with palmetto bugs. Ugh!!!
There's a different variety of roach up north, those little bastards get into *everything.*
The joke about the north not being at the national championship aged well. The south wasn't there lol 😂.
Love it!
Agreed. I wonder how all the SEC teams enjoyed their views of the game from their couches this year. At least the beer and nachos were cheaper.
When I was in SC a lady asked me if I was a Yankee or a damn Yankee and I didn't understand the question. She said a Yankee was someone from the north who came to visit and a damn Yankee was one who stayed. Did not sound like the southern hospitality I heard so much about so I said trust me, madame. From what I've seen so far I am a Yankee through and through, and the only person who wants me to go back from where I came from more than you is me. That one took her a couple of seconds. Otherwise, not a bad experience. One thing I can say for certain is if you go to Charleston and leave hungry it's your own fault.
It’s been an entire decade without a northern team winning, he’s right and this year was an exception 😂🤣
We were just raised right and taught to share occasionally ;)
Yep...A northern team won the national championship. Well that's once in a row...
The Tampa Bay Lightning fandom is pretty dedicated and widespread. Any sport that gives you a 5-minute “timeout” in a penalty box (rather than a multi-game suspension) for punching a guy is a lot of fun to watch.
When fights have gotten too intense they've sometimes broken out into hockey games.
I feel like the popularity of Hockey in Florida is mainly due to the fact that Florida is straight up filled with New York Transplants. You guys have 1.6 million New Yorkers. 15% of your population comes from New York, New Jersey, Ohio or Pennsylvania.
Hockey is where it's at.
t. Minnesota resident.
@NoneoftheAbove1046 yes! My favorite feature of hockey, the embellishment penalty!
I'm a native Texan, I love my Dallas Stars!
I was surpised that clear, cold water was not on the list. Being from Michigan, i was a bit concerned about the average temp and color of natural bodies of water in the south. I did not know the love of tea ran that deep.
As a fellow Michigander, I completely agree….but I would tread carefully when bragging about our water. Because…. Flit
touche.
One of my favorite places on this planet is Lake Winnapasaukee in New Hampshire. The water is so clear that you can watch the snails crawling around 30 feet deep.
The mountains are about the only place you'll find "clear cool water" in the South. But even then I wouldn't drink it right out of the stream, there's bear and deer shit in that water too lol.
@blakedean904 valid. Not sure I was bragging, but I will say 4 out of the 5 Great Lakes prefer to be next to Michigan.
I’m a Northerner who loves the South; I wish we as a country could all admit the good things about each other’s regions and come together as a nation of people with our own quirks, foods and lifestyles. Like up here we need good grits, down there it sounds like you desperately need a solid pizza place. Trade?
Yes, except what do u mean by trade.... ( I don't care about grits and Pizza is one of my favorite foods... ), this WI gal wants to know... .
Wait What? We eat grits all the time in the South!
I don't like grits so heck yeah I'll gladly give you grits for pizza.
We have Hunt Brother's Pizza in most Convenience stores, it's pretty awful. We'll trade grits for GOOD pizza as long as you promise not to put sugar in the grits. lol
Yes, I'll gladly trade. Gimme some pizza!
Spot on RE: hockey. It’s actually a natural sport for native Southerners to enjoy. It’s got the violence of football, the speed of NASCAR, and the theatrics of championship wrestling. Sometimes all in a single shift.
Best sport to watch in person. People should go to a game, they'll instantly want to go see more.
The Carolina Hurricanes are a great example of hockey in the South thriving. Attendance and local support are through the roof.
@@jenniferhogan4980 Go Canes! Nashville Predators, Dallas Stars, and Tampa Bay Lightning are proof as well!
Also - natural air conditioning!
I moved up north a few years back, and I remember when we got the ECHL in Louisiana, that was a whole new world. The IceGators was my jam!
You could have mentioned the beauty of a meadow, glistening in the moonlight with a fresh blanket of pure white snow. Everything else about snow they can keep, but I have to admit, it is pretty. That is, before it is churned up beneath footprints, animal matter, cars turning it into slush and sheer icy coldness of the stuff.
Yes! Tree branches after fresh snowfall are gorgeous. And don't get mucked up as quickly as snow on the ground.
Oh man, that was always my favorite part of winter growing up was being the first to walk in a fresh fall of snow
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As long as that snowfall comes between late November and early April. I learned that first-hand in 2011, when my home state of New Jersey got hit with mid-winter levels of snowfall on _October 29_ (I still remember the date because one year later to the day was when Hurricane Sandy hit). Turns out, the reason our trees lose their leaves in the winter is to reduce the surface area of their branches before heavy snowfall begins. Even though it wasn't *that* much snow compared to some of the blizzards we've had, it did a ton of damage because of all of the downed tree branches, snapped under the weight of more snow than they could support.
Yeah, I moved away from snow. I'm fine just looking at pics and video. And I'll take Atlanta, where the threat of a light dusting shuts down the city. 😂
In Chicago at least, they call it "Snirt," when the pretty snow is churned into muddy brown slush by all the traffic.
As someone who is in the real deep south (Melbourne Australia) I can say that public transportation is such an amazing thing it totally changes the culture of a city. I can get to work in half an hour and no have to worry about parking and can watch RUclips on the way in.
you have no idea how much this video made my day. thank you for cheering me up on a hard day. I hope anyone reading this has a good day too. ❤️
Well I hope you have a good rest of your day then. - And bless your heart (the good meaning).
God bless you. You are very kind. Rock on.
I fell out laughing when he said, "Think of it as a Waffle House that moves." So true!😂😂😂
As far as bugs go, I lived in Indianapolis, IN for six years, and the complete lack of bugs was glorious! I'm from Arkansas, so being bug free for six years was heavenly!
As a Southerner who lived in IN. for several years before I talked my Hoosier wife into moving to TN., I've got to ask, "but what about the giant, hairy, insanely fast centipedes AND the multitude of earwigs, including the outdoor variety that grow massively large?! Oh!, and beyond bugs, spiders by the truckload, including the LARGE, (should be called titanic!), not found in The South, gigantic house spiders that run and sound like little horses!!!? Shit, I forgot the subterranean sun spiders I've only ever encountered in one area of an Indy suburb.
Don't lie, I know dang well that the farther north you go, the bigger the mosquitoes get. The ones in Canada can punch through denim.
@@evage99 Northern skeeters are slow and dumb. They get drunk on your blood, and sit there gloating while you slap em--then they explode. I'm in Texas now, and these skeeters are ninja, oil-drilling monsters. They attack you from behind, biting your thighs through your jeans! They bite, then leave so you can't see em. Then they bite your elbow, and while your scratching that bite, they'll feast on your neck. I haven't seen most of the ones that bite me. They're evil.
I grew up in Texas we had sticker burs, flying roaches, fire ant, diamond backs & scorpions. Was a wonder to go outside in Indiana bare foot in the grass having no issues.
Gmorn from DIAMOND City!!! When y'all comin' home to visit?! 😅 The fish are still bitin' statewide!! GOD bless ya! ❤️
"devil bugs"...you got that right, Matt! And we know exactly why they're dancing around on one foot!
I'm an Ohio boy (southern Ohio, Appalachian foothills, which I can't truly believe is lumped in with the rest of the North) and my first run-in with Fire Ants was late August 2000 at Parris Island, SC.
18 year old me, outside in the pitch black morning, waiting to start my initial PT test in order to hopefully begin bootcamp and become a Marine. As I stand there, scared completely sh*tless and questioning every decision that lead to that point, my feet and lower legs began to feel like they were on fire. Too afraid to move (we were in formation), I just stood there, gritting my teeth, hoping that whatever was happening to my legs would pass. A few seconds later the recruit next to me starts wigging out which drew the attention of the Drill Instructor. The DI comes over screaming because of the commotion, then immediately shoves me off of a shin deep fire ant mount and proceeded to berate me while giving me permission to swat the ants off of me. It took my legs about 2 weeks to fully heal, but I didn't miss any training. You folks can definitely keep those god awful things, lol.
You know I hear ya there guy. I personally always considered Appalachia its own region as such it has its own culture and what not. Its not East Coast, its not Dixie, and its not Great Lakes, but its kinda sorta a mix of all and none of them at the same time. Either way, I don't know how people can constantly drive there without losing your sanity. Appalachian roads are scary and make me stay in my frozen home.
Appalachia is a region unto itself. As an Appalachian by birth and heritage I see how different we are. I feel like it's getting recognized more but it's often ignored, misunderstood, or maligned.
Don't you diss my state that way Jr.or I'll deck you.! I am southern and that is that!
Wow, I can’t believe you just stood there with the ants on you!!
You must’ve ended up a great marine 🎉❤
Appalachia is it's own thing. Not North or South. Only the South considers Appalachia to be North, because the North sure doesn't.
#9 Summer. Northern summers are the perfect blend of 75 degree days and 65 degree nights (perfect sleeping weather). Only thing wrong with them is they're too short.
#10 Snow plows. Sure, we get some awfully cold stretches in the winter, but everything does NOT grind to a halt like it does when the south dips below freezing for 5 minutes.
I like our summers and snow plows that isnt that great
The snow isn't great, but the fact that we can cope with it is kind of great
@@mccod035
Ok #9 baseball. Ever been to Fenway Park, or Yankee Stadium or Wriggly Field? It's a whole other experience. You may have football down south and we will give you that but in baseball we have you beat.
#10 seafood. New England is second to none on our seafood dishes. Nothing like a fresh lobster roll on a summer's day.
But Gulf Coast seafood is amazing... I mean you can't get an entire lobster for a buck fifty like in Maine, but the fresh catch is excellent.
As a North Carolinian I must defend our Southerness. After all, we have more than one type of BBQ here and all the happy pigs to prove it. More regional accents than you can shake a stick at. Enough allergens to send anyone home with a damp bandana. Chicken pastry AND chicken and dumplin’s. My god: NASCAR for Pete’s sake. How dare you, sir!
Yes to all of this! Who can name a greater food rivalry that Eastern Carolina vs. Western Carolina? But seriously, it drives me crazy when people act like the urban South ain't really Southern. Despite what some people may think, there's more than one way to be Southern.
As a fellow NC resident I must note the best BBQ here is mediocre. Our pigs are not giving their all for a solid product.
When you add nascar to why your area is the best you’ve lost lol
Amen that NC is Southern! Bless Matt's heart for accusing NC of being borderline Southern; he must've lost his mind momentarily.
Just cause we got north in the name don't mean we're part of it!
As a driver that occasionally (and accidentally) sits at a green light for a few seconds, I'd just like to say a big thank you to all those people behind me who honk and let me know the light's changed.
Yes ! As long as they don't seem angry or rude about it !
I have the most polite of all "meep meeps" from my miata. It couldn't sound angry if I tried! 😂
Yes, there's an art to honking without sounding aggressive. When you drive a different car than usual, you tend to honk aggressively by accident as you adjust to the new horn.
Hilarious watching this back now that the national Championship is Michigan vs Washington.
"Think of it as a Waffle House that moves" may be the most spectacularly succinct summation of New York's subway system I have ever met.
Spot on with the hockey mention. The key is, you have to see a game live. It is different in person than on tv. We have a new team in Savannah, the Ghost Pirates. They sold out 33 of 36 games and set echl records in sellouts, merchandise sales, season tickets, etc. in their first year. Will probably break those records this year in year 2. The south can and will love hockey if they give it a chance.
Savannah is far from an NFL team or a major college team. Do they have good high schoolfootball? Small-time hockey can work in places like Savannah because football and other "southern" sports aren't dominating people's lives.
@@jmit3491- Gee, I wonder what the displaced Native Americans would think about your "real" Savannah residents living there... 😂
@@jmit3491 - I didn't claim that there are no people of Native American descent in Savannah today. And the Trail of Tears wasn't the only displacement of Native Americans in Georgia. Lastly, how much influence do the Native Americans in Savannah have over the local, state, or federal governments, while you whine about tourist transplants?
@@jmit3491 - I'm not a fan of gentrification, either. The past can't be changed, but pointing out more wrong doesn't justify your whining about tourist transplants. Just let it go, dude. You can't win this one, and I sometimes complain about things with poor context and justification, too. Humans are flawed beings. I was just trying to give you food for thought, but you got defensive and went on the offensive. 😆
Im a dual citizen born in Canada but living in South Georgia for the last thirty years. I love the south...but you are absolutely correct about Hockey. Its awesome!
We DO have our own pizza...mostly in Louisiana. We have a statewide pizza chain named "Johnny's Pizza House." Every spring during crawfish season they make a "Sweep the Swamp" pizza. It has shrimp, crawfish tails, andouille sausage, and other toppings. This is as close to an "officially Southern" pizza as we can get.
That sounds awesome.
that sounds delicious
OK, that sounds great.
Sounds like a waste of good gumbo.
Is cajun/creole food considered southern cuisine? Seems like a category unto itself
As a native North Carolinian you have no idea how much "on the fringe of being Southern" made me smile.
Nah, North Carolina is very southern to majority southern outside of like a few places (Raleigh, Apex, Cary, Chapel Hill, Asheville). The Charlotte burbs are clearly southern, though there is a substantial number of transplants. They just haven't taken over like they have around Raleigh.
He's just mad because we get to be southern AND have fall. 😂
@@SpamLamb1 Every place experiences "fall". Where I live in Georgia, it is cooler than in most of the state of North Carolina.
@@willp.8120 Of course they do. It was just a little joke since our dear brother from Alabama mentioned it. Relax! Of all the things I will argue about the relative merits of our regional climates isn't one of them.
Except for Minnesota. They can keep that one way up there. 😉
@@willp.8120agreed...NC is VERY southern outside of that handful of towns/cities. They definitely don't represent the state as a whole.
As someone who is slowly becoming a Tampa Bay Lightning fan, we need more hockey in the south!!
Years ago I was visiting family in the burbs of Chicago at Christmastime and got to witness a pee-wee league hockey match in which the players were so padded most were about as wide as they were tall, but skated like maniacs who had breakfasted on candy bars and rocket fuel!!! The hockey parents were just as rabid as their Southern little league baseball parents I was more familiar with…. Easy to see the comparisons…
If you look in the right places, you can find the very rare Southern Hockey Parent. They are as terrifying as you think.
Was the game at 6 in the morning when they could get ice time?
Describing the subway as a mobile Waffle House is genius.
More like a county fair on wheels! Oh the dregs of humanity you encounter....
Dude, you're making me homesick for the nw illinois suburbs during fall! The riot of leaves in fall colors only begins to touch the season's splendor. The mellow scent of the fall leaves is complimented by an occasional bonfire or fireplace smoke trail curled through the air as one walks home at twilight. Oh, how I wish I could see and feel it again❤❤❤
Yay, Fall! I'm a northern suburban Illinoisan (we don't need to name what we're a suburb of, haha). I went to college at U of I in Champaign (middle of the State of Illinois), and students had created an entire club to celebrate all things Fall! It was called "October Lovers," and it remains one of my fondest memories.
Matt couldn't resist throwing a shot at the North in the end.😂 Genius!
Except that he jinxed the SEC. Michigan vs Washington in the national championship 3 months later. 🤣
With Michigan beating Alabama in the playoffs, no less! 😮😮😮
Yeah, that aged well.
The thing about fire ants is so true. Several years ago a young couple lived next to me for a while. They were not from the south and he was in the Coast Guard. I saw them right before they moved to Alaska due to his transfer. I was like "Wow! Alabama to Alaska. That is a huge change." They both said moving to Alaska was great since they didn't have fire ants there.
I moved to the south from Jersey, had 0 clue what a fire ant was. found out the hard way by going in the backyard barefoot.
I do miss the pizza so when hubby goes to Jersey I ask him to bring me a couple of large pies
@@Jerseybytes2 my husband is from Tabernacle NJ and misses the Canada Dry Vanilla Cream Soda. He says the stuff we have in Western NY is just plain gross. It tastes like fizzy cotton candy to me lol
So glad that hockey made the list! Go Stars!
Let's Go Predators!!!😂😂😂
GOOO Canes!
Great job! Even though I wouldn't want to live anywhere but Alabama the Beautiful, I must admit that many Yankee activities look like a lot of fun to me. Snow skiing, sledding, ice fishing and skating all seem like they would be such a blast! I think that it is fun to make jokes at our regional differences knowing that if the SHTF, we are all Americans first and foremost. I am thankful for that.
And snowmobiling
@@deed5811 OMG, how could I forget that? That is the number one thing I want to try. I grew up as ' river rat' on the Chattahoochee so jet skis are our thing. But, I bet my husband has heard me say 100 times, "I want to do that" when we have seen snow mobiles on TV. One of these days.......
@harrysatchel no brakes on an icy slope, good times! 🫣😂
@@auburnkim1989 Come to Minnesota! Jet skis and snowmobiles are both big here; I have a lot of neighbors with a trailer in their driveway that just swaps out what's riding on it -- jet skis in the summer, and snowmobiles in the winter. Super, super fun.
There’s no such thing as “snow skiing”. It’s simply “skiing”. The snow is implied for obvious reasons.
There are only two types of skiing: skiing and water skiing.
Fire ants (or the lack of) and impatient Yankees honking horns is so spot on!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Just to add some context the national championship game is between Michigan and Washington. A northern team and a western team. So you can add college football to your list Matt!
didnt Michigan cheat? Not sure what they did but i overheard some friends talk about it. I was too busy being on the emotional rollercoaster that is being a Kentucky basketball fan.
Was Connor at that game?
@@MooseGooseThe1st the investigation hasn't been concluded yet so we will see. It looks like they will get to keep the national championship but the previous two years' wins might get taken away
As a native Texan Hockey is super fun and I think more people should watch!
Hockey is the best sport. Go Dallas Stars. We need another hockey team here in Texas. I know everyone is saying to bring one to Houston.
@@sarahprince2412 this 100%
@harrysatchel drove to Dallas a few times to watch. It’s super fun. But it’s not that bad on tv. I prefer radio now tho since I’ve lost my sight
Lost count of the number of rapid fire sick burns in the last 30 seconds, Matt is truly an evil genius.
Myles Pizza in Greenville, SC. Northern pizza brought south for y'all. It's fantastic! I do miss the drive-thru stores, aka brew-thrus.
Don't count out Detroit style until you actually try it. The crust has this ciabatta-ish thing going on, with a super crispy and butter bottom and a light and airy dough so you get a really satisfying mix of textures. Aside from that, it usually has more cheese than a traditional pizza and the cheese burning on the edges of the pan is just plain good (as long as they don't actually burn it).
New York = Dominoes +
Chicago = Pizza Pie
Detroit = Cheesy bread
The best pizza is a decent tavern style thin crust. These can be found all over the place, but its tough to find it done well sometimes. St Louis has been trying to claim this pizza as its own in the recent years. Honestly, we might just have to let them. They really have nothing else.
@@Roland597I thought tavern originated in Chicago.
I don’t count out Detroit style. But Chicago style is some kind of travesty invented by Satan.
I closed the video after that jab against Detroit style. Man clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Jett's Pizza, Detroit Style, is very good. I like the crunch.
This feels like the opening of peace negotiations between two estranged nations. Thank you for the kind words. Best wishes on the fire ants stealing your trucks - they're just after the air conditioning. Maybe you could just take them to the ice rink?
I laughed so hard about the tenderloin sandwich. "I know we didn't invent it because - no gravy!" Those things are delicious and also ridiculous. (I'm a (from the very north of the state) Hoosier.)
Nothing beats an Indiana tenderloin sandwich! Go Hoosiers!
Fall is gorgeous. It is my favorite season. The weather is just perfect. Not too hot, not too cold. Brisk. Fall is brisk and refreshing.
I will also agree with you on public transport. I love trains. Everywhere should have more trains. It helps the economy by providing cheap transport, massively expanding the places where you can look for and maintain jobs, cuts down on gridlock, and allows you to turn your commute to and from work into "me time" when you can nap or read a book or do some additional work so that when you get home to your family everything is done and you're ready for family time.
which is why the south will NEVER get it. legislators don't want the average voter to be able to move around easily. they WANT clogged highways that drive us insane.
Trains need very high population density to work well, though, and most of the U.S. doesn't have anywhere near that population density. Using trains for commuting doesn't exactly work if you have an actual house with land. Trains are not actually cheap at all. They are expensive to operate and extremely expensive to build. But their cost per ride can be low (at least on short, local rides) when population density is high enough to have very high ridership, like in NYC. When the population is more spread out, trains will be more expensive than driving.
Trains are certainly a great solution in *some* places, but they are not even a reasonable, let alone good, solution for passenger transport in most places, especially in a country as spread out as the U.S. If you look at the places where trains actually do work well, you will find that every single one of them has one thing in common: far higher population density than what most of the U.S. has, both in terms of how close large cities are to each other (for inter-city trains) and how densely packed everyone lives in (usually relatively expensive) small apartments.
Personally, I prefer my way of commuting: I wake up, take a shower, and walk into the other room where my computer is. Or perhaps walk out to the gazebo in my back yard and take a laptop with me. Commute takes about 20 seconds each way. Even when I need to go in to the office, though, I can be there in 5 minutes in my car, since my office is not located in an overcrowded city center. With more and more work being able to be done remotely these days, I don't see large offices and in dense city centers being nearly as important in the future as they've been in the past. It's just not economically efficient to pack that many people into such small areas. Any given standard of living will cost much more in a densely-packed city..
@@vbscript2 You're right that commuter trains do need a particular density to work. It would not work everywhere. Though places with houses actually could use commuter trains. The population density doesn't require apartment complexes.
However, it is way cheaper than driving. I lived on the East Coast in Connecticut, which Boston to New Jersey has commuter rail systems, so it was very convenient.
The price of a monthly ticket into Stamford where I worked was between $80 and $100 over the years I used it. At one point, a lady joined my commuter group (By which I just mean she commuted at the same time that I did, as you get this kind of community going on among people who wait for the train and travel together.) And I don't remember why did did it, but she later figured out she was spending $480 in gas to make the same commute when she had to drive the whole way. So the train was insanely cheap by comparison. Using the train saved her, $400 per month, or $4,800 per year, and was more relaxing on top of that.
Also, there was a study done in Texas between a city that used commuter rail and a city that did not. I'm going to guess it was Dallas (I think that has trains) and Houston. But anyway, same country, same state government. And overtime what they discovered was that the property values in the city with trains increased while in the city without trains, all the value that went into the houses in the first city tended to go into increased commuter expenses.
I'm probably not explaining that well, and it's been years, but, like people had to shell out the same amount of money when you combined mortgages and property taxes and commuter expenses, but in the city with trains, they essentially retained the wealth spent in the price of their house, which in the city without trains, the money kind of blew away in the expenses of the commute. And, you know, once the mortgage was paid off, the people with trains were able to stash more away in savings, while the people with trains still had the high commuting expenses, and their houses were worth less on the market.
The US's main issue with train lines is not that we don't have the track, but that government sold track to industrial concerns in a lot of places. The New York corridor is one of the few places that retained the tracks and kept them running.
@@jenniferhansesBut that's all assuming that you want to commute into a big city to work in the first place, which is rapidly becoming less and less necessary. Factories are rarely in big cities anymore (cheaper to build them in smaller cities) and the white-collar jobs that have still been bringing people into office complexes in large cities are mostly able to be done remotely from home now. The most efficient way to commute is to simply not commute at all or to commute only a relatively short distance in a smaller town.
The U.S.'s issue with (passenger) trains is that the U.S. is very large with a population that is very spread out (aside from a few exceptions like the Northeast Corridor that you've mentioned, where the population is relatively dense, especially around NYC.) You're right that the U.S. does have lots of rail track - the most of any country in the world and by a significant margin. However, the government didn't "sell" most of that track to anyone, but rather never owned it in the first place. The vast majority of the rail lines were built by the private rail operators. Of course, this is inter-city rail lines. Light rail within a city typically was and remains owned by the (local) government.
The U.S. rail network is used primarily to haul freight around, which has a vastly higher (positive) economic and environmental impact than if that same rail were used for passengers instead (though most of it is also available for passenger use if an operator actually wants to do that.) Boxes don't care if they take 2-3 days to cross the country. People do. The U.S. hauls about 12x as much freight ton-kilometers per capita by rail as the EU does, for example. Rail is great for getting vast quantities of heavy stuff where speed isn't important across vast over-land distances. It's not so great at transporting people across vast distances, least of all when those people aren't already concentrated into small areas, which they aren't in most of the U.S.
@@vbscript2 You seem to be acting off of some incorrect assumptions.
1) During the pandemic, people worked from home. Now that the pandemic is over, businesses are pushing for more in-office time, and hybrid or at home work options are evaporating. There have been numerous articles about this in the last few months.
2) Also in regards to working from home, quite a lot of workers don't have what it takes to do so long term, and actually need office face time. Working from home is psychologically damaging for them, as they need human contact. And it ruins their focus as they can't keep to schedules. More hybrid options might work for such people, but they actually do need time in the office on a weekly basis. The number of people who can thrive purely at home is estimated at 10 to 15% of the work force.
3) "Assuming people want to work in big cities." Trains actually work really well for people who want to work in small towns and midsize cities as well. They broaden the scope of available jobs for those people who can't afford cars, as well as where such people can live. They can drop you off at the next town over. Big cities anchor commuter rail, but there are benefits for all the towns in between. This is also an ideal situation for moving to a hybrid workforce, as they can live out away from the city, but still make it into town when they need to meet up face to face. If you're actually advocating for more hybrid work, trains are likely the way to go. They also provide unique shopping experiences, as you can take the train into a small town and wander the main street for a day to see a different culture and buy local produce at farmers markets.
4) The US and various state governments were required to finance railway projects. They have sold out most of those interests to corporations in most cases.
As a person from North Carolina, How dare you.
We are just as Southern as any of the lower states.
Our horrible summer weather proves it.
Plus the best BBQ in the nation.
9. Snowmen, you cant make em. 10. Ice fishing. You have no ice. Check, and mate sir.
Born and raised Southerner here and I am the only one in my family who honks regularly. It is quite useful for avoiding and preventing accidents!
See I think it's a way of honking that needs to be established. The BEEEEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEP of the Yankee is so uncivil. It needs to be a nice BEEP BEEEP BEEP, more like a "hey over here!" beep as opposed to the more annoying " *expletive* move you *expletive* *expletive* motherless *expletive* *expletive* *expletive* eating bad humping *expletive* *expletive* *expletive* "
See what I mean?
When you see the person in front with their head down on their phone and the light is green, I’m giving them an ear full!
@@frostriver4547ugh same...or worse, while on the freeway! I see that in every state I've been to (over 30).
As in North Carolinian, you're on thin ice man...
Turns out you were right... we didn't see you at the college football national championships. 🤣
"I'll see y'all at the College Football National Championship. I'm just kidding; y'all ain't gonna' be there." As a Big Ten fan, that was a real gut punch.
I'm pretty sure that the National Championships has a rule that no PAC12-, PAC-11 PAC-Whatever they're now will EVER end up in the Championships. So much for my poor Sun Devils. They never get any respect.
Fr, he's so annoying for that. but... unfortunately Ryan Day is the worst coach OSU has had in a while, sooooo yeah. I miss Urban Meyer.
ended up being ok this year
Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia have just entered the chat on THAT statement.
As a Michigander who moved south after college, I love this. Outside of the heat, #1 (pizza) has been my main complaint. The South does pretty much all food better, with pizza being the one exception. And #8 (hockey), I couldn't agree more. I found the Birmingham bulls when I moved there, took my now-wife to her first hockey game there and she loved it, now we watch the Knoxville Ice Bears. Every southerner I've taken to a game has loved it, y'all just need to give it a chance (in person, don't try watching it on TV at first).
Nope. They do real steaks horrible.
All that grass and scrub fed crap you have to drown in sauce or take super care in cooking...when you can just buy a cornfed steak from Iowa or Minnesota and it melts in your mouth.
Sorry the South food is terrible. Most of what they eat is what we feed our food
As a native Florida boy for my entirety, visiting the north for the first time in the fall/winter was an experience. The north has these nano-squirrels they call chipmunks. These tiny bastards are not what I imagined 😂. Also, seeing locals walk around in 50-60° arctic cold in shorts and a t-shirt, like it's a summers day at the beach, blew my mind. Ya'll know it's freezing out here, right? Lastly, I never realized how accustomed I've become to the smell of swamp. The lack of sun baked detritus lingering in the air was quite refreshing...haha. No matter all the northerly perks, nothing beats Daytona Beach @ 85° on Christmas day. ❤😂
Fall is fun here near Chicago because it can't decide what it wants to be. In September it cools down a little, then in early October ramps back up to high summer temps (for us). Then it remembers it's the north and drops 40 degrees in a night.
"North Carolina on the verge" I'm shocked you would say that, we're far more Southern than Florida or Georgia. 😂
As a Yankee who moved down to the South, yeah I miss autumn and absolutely hate the bugs, but everything else is better down South. Visiting family up north and going out to eat is a nightmare. I asked a waitress for a sweet tea and she said, "We can put Splenda in it." Y'all I almost cried it was the saddest thing I ever heard
Hockey is loved in NC with the Hurricanes
Fall is honestly the best. It's the perfect blend of heat, not too much sun hours, no bugs, and a calm vibe overall. Try it in Ohio. Indian summer is worth it... And we have drive thru stores 😊😊
I'm a Ohioan...all my life and proud to say so and fall is my favorite season.
I am a Hoosier so not far from you...and Fall is my favorite by far. Nicest weather, beautiful foliage, I love it.
I prefer winter.
Don't look at me like that. I'm not alone. At least 2% of the population prefers winter. It's a totally normal preference to have.
In fact, I used to have a coworker who moved up here (to Ohio) from Georgia, because living down there she _missed_ winter. She left a year or two ago though. Got a job in Alaska, working for a cruise line, at one of their stops. One of those places you can't drive to, because it's impossible to build roads on sheer cliff faces that are also permafrost.
I have lived half of my life in the South and half in the North. Three additions to your list: mosquitoes that do not leave irritating bites, cockroaches that do not nest inside your house, and tornadoes instead of hurricanes (tornadoes are more selective).
But hurricanes are more predictable. They don't just drop out of the sky onto some unsuspecting trailer park.
@@CindyIrvin-t4d Admittedly a trade off.
Matt has now been banned from all Dollar Generals in the South for making this video.
Then he cant go anywhere
You say that like it’s a bad thing
@@BlandSpagetti lol everything is dollar general
I've been to a Dollar General... twice. You say this like it's a bad thing.
Why? There's plenty of Dollar Generals in the north. Maybe not quite as many, but there's quite a few, along with Dollar (and a quarter) Tree and Family Dollar. I know a town in Michigan that's got a grocery store, three dollar stores (one of each), two gas stations, and a fruit stand.
Being in GA and NC for the army I still have nightmares of the fire ants. God bless Nebraska.
another Nebraskan cool!!
watching this 5 months later, after Michigan beat Washington in the National Championship. Hurts to bring it up though; Roll Tide Roll!
Matt was so close to a valid point about pizza, but then he badmouthed Detroit Style. Why would we risk our lives in America's most dangerous city to get it if it wasn't incredible?
He is right about Southern pizza, though. It's like Northern BBQ. Gas station BBQ in the South is better than the highest rated BBQ joint in the North.
I'll give that Papa John's is slightly above Costco's food court pizza.
I'm from Oklahoma and agree. Detroit is my favorite pizza, and I absolutely hate NY pizza.
Gas station BBQ is pretty high class!
Never heard of Kansas City?😂
@@Kilo-ct8dh that's where Taylor Swifts boyfriend lives, right?
I'm from Michigan so I understood all of these. Truth be told I didn't even know what a fire ant was until a few years ago. My number 9 or 10 would be the ability to drive in more than half an inch of snow. I've blazed a new trail in feet of snow a number of times in a rear wheel drive F150 with no traction control and been perfectly fine.
Sounds suspect. I’ll just drive up to the snow and abandon the vehicle for a few days until it melts
Rain or shine (or snow) I have to put food on the table somehow 🤣
Matt would never come up to the north during snow season. His heart wouldn't be able to handle it. Too terrifying.
@@HariSeldon913There's NOTHING scarier than venturing out on the roads after a southern snow.
Why would we be good at snow when half of us have never seen it? 🤗How good are you at desert survival and sand surfing?🤗❤️🐝
9, maple syrup
10, dressing up mini dogs/as they live with us in our dollhouse sized homes :)
+ 1 the amount of languages one comes across just one day (with equal amount of different restaurants)
++weblove you back South!♥️
9+: And real butter on the table when you go to restaurants…
@@pr9177 Any kind of dairy really, cheese and ice cream for example.
It turns out the south wouldn’t be at the national championship
As a South Jersey girl that lived in Georgia for 24 years, and now in the Pittsburgh area, I agree with everything that you said. They love to honk their horns up here. Hopefully, I will move back to the south real soon as I'm terribly missing it (expect for the bugs).
Come home child!!🤗❤️🐝
Don't tell Southerner about the Pittsburgh left turn...their minds will fry.
Pittsburgh is the fringe northern city since they’re more midwestern in the way they are.
These may be a couple weird ones, but here's my try at two more:
#9: Bagpipes. EVERY parade involving fire or police in the North (or at least New England and its environs) involves this instrument 10 times more obnoxious than a Mississippi State cowbell. And the sound is majestic ... or the worst thing you've ever heard.
#10: History. You go to Boston, and everywhere you look is a place where important things happened 200+ years ago. And then you have the US's oldest permanent concrete structure dedicated to college athletics a few miles away in Cambridge, Harvard Stadium. History is EVERYWHERE around here.
#11: The Big East ... you know, before realignment killed it. Best damn basketball conference ever seen.
Jamestown Virginia was inhabited before Boston, and St. Augustine Florida is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the United States... by like, a 100 years or so before New England...
The ACC would beg to differ
Damn right about Big East Conference, especially in the 80's
There is history down here. If you want European colonization history, there are Spanish settlements older than the British colonies; there are natural history to behold like caverns of stalagtites that took millions of years to make; and it certain parts you can even find the more permanent native American settlements and artefacts that are older.
@@jamiefrontiera1671 Plus, all of our historical places are seemingly haunted and full of spooky, supernatural shit. And even places that aren't historical are seemingly haunted, bewitched, or ensorcelled. Granted, that also just might just be Louisiana.
Hockey is awesome. Definitely would thrive in the South if people would just try one game.
As a Southern transplant raised in New Hampshire, I was glad to see Fall and hockey listed. Both are exquisite.
Truly excellent pizza can be found South of the Mason-Dixon Line. Antico Pizza Napoletana in Atlanta makes a legit world-class pie.
I used to go to hockey games when I was a teenager in the late 60's. It was in Greensboro, N.C. We are NOT fringe. I saw my Generals get crushed by the Russians 12-4. Still loved them. Went to a lot of regular games. I think they still have a team
MM - As a double transplant (MI to NC then back to MI) I can tell you that we Yankees cannot do Biscuits here in the north, but yes - all pizza in the south is substandard. Having said that, I do LUV "Bojangles" and "Cook-Out" - when we so south to visit the families, it's great to get into Bojangles country! : )
As someone who was born and raised in NYC but has lived in the South for a majority of my adult life, your observations are spot on! I still have my accent to this day but now I have a hybrid of NYC slang mixed with southern slang when I interact with people 🙃 😅
I can just hear you. "Bless your heart, are you breakin' my balls hon?" 😉
I was in Canada a few years ago and when I was walking through the hotel lobby there were a bunch of people sitting around mesmerized by the TV. I took a look at what they were watching. Curling. Then I started watching. Then I started kind of getting into it. It is the most oddly engaging sport I've ever seen. It's not a real big sport in Texas. There is only one sport in Texas. On that note, however this Aggie vs Alabama thing turns out tommorow SEC Roll Call will have material to work with!
If it was the Canadian or Swedish women’s teams, then yeah I get it.
Curling is like darts but instead of flying the dart through the air you slide a rock over ice and change the speed as necessary
I submit for your consideration Jamie Sinclair of the RUclips channel "Curl Up With Jamie"@@shag139
@@NeSeeger Shuffleboard on ice!
Curling is the winter version of swimming. Nobody cares about it 47 months of the year but when the Olympics come around we’re all for it lol.
Matt you are hysterical and I'm glad you're growing on YT!! Have a fantastic day and don't ever stop making us 😂 laugh because of the God's honest truth about our beloved South!! ❤️❤️
As a Long Islander who moved to South Carolina at 11, I agree with everything except for the fact that we do have fire ants up there too. Also Number 9 is Bagels
I'm from Long Island and I'm not sure I even know what fire ants are. 😁
Definitely..bagels
I was happy in Florida for most of my life, but decided that enough was enough about 8 years ago. I'm loving Maine, but the winters are tough to get used to. That said, I can always put on more clothing whereas in Florida I could only take so much off before someone called the cops.
One for you hunters out there: Northern deer are generally bigger. Saw a herd of deer here in SC and they were only like fun size.
Yeah, and so much better eating.
Iowa (and some others) deer is mostly corn and soybean fed, not that nasty scrub fed crap from down south.
Aaaahhh...cornfed venison, melt in mouth happiness.
Some parts of the South have glorious fall color. The sad thing is that the North is creeping South; the top half of Virginia has more Yankees than Southerners now. The only things I might miss if I moved back to the South are bagels and pizza. Heck, I could live without bagels and pizza in exchange for good barbecue and fried chicken. One thing the South has that the North is quickly losing, is manners. Matt, you are the best!❤😂
We have manners , but southerners move too slow in our over crowded states and don't get to see them until they learn to keep up and stay out of the way.
@@From-North-Jersey LOL, I live in Southern NJ😁 Maybe if people weren’t always in such a hurry, we’d get to see your good manners. 😉 I will say this, NJ is really pretty state once you get off the highways. If you were in Gloucester County on south, you might think you were in the South, even down to the accent.
With climate change, the South is creeping/galloping north.
I can confirm that the north has terrible manners. people suck here, I wanna move to TN. But I also love snow so that'll be hard lol
@@deadgoat82 aw, really? dang it. What's a better spot? Arkansas?
I would love to see you do a sketch with Charlie Berens.
As someone born and raised in South Louisiana and now having lived in Virginia for 14 years, I can agree with this fully.
...VA is not the North though..
@@janelleg597 it's not the South either
Both of those are in the south.
@@janelleg597 Washington, DC, Maryland and Northern Va, used to be Southern. I grew up in Manassas, men, young and old tipped their hat to my mom and they always removed their hats when entering a building-except maybe at the farm store, Southern States.
@@landonmichelle I can agree with this statement. I live in Northern NC, and the weather we have here is a lot cooler than more southern states. Not nearly as cold as the north, but not a blazing inferno.
Bow down before the North!! I am from New England and for number 9 you could have listed Blizzards. It's terrific. You get 15 inches of snow and your boss will not question why you can't come into work for two straight days because he's also snowed in and trying to get somebody plow him out. Schools get closed too so you send the kids downstairs to the man cave while you and the wife day drink and catch up on the backlog of tv shows. And yes remote work exists but nobody expects you to actually work when there's that much snow outside.
That’s sounds like New Hampshire to me
Hurricane parties are a week nobody bothers you
"Tallahassee Slice" , not to be confused with a "Tuscaloosa Dumpling" . 😂
9. Full basements - most houses have them up here and they're useful
10. Concerts - a lot of bands skip most of the South except Atlanta and maybe Florida making live music a rarity down there.
First house my wife and I bought was on a slab. Lived in Connecticut my whole life and it was a first for me. Thought the Connecticut building code required at least a crawl space. Can't fathom living in a state where that's normal.
New Orleans has more music festivals than I can keep up with. Jazz Fest, Voodoo Fest, Essence Fest are just a few.
Pretty sure that depends on what genre you’re talking about.
Fall? Yes. Hockey? HELL YEAH! But there are so many things that you have in the South that are better.
Honking the horn is soooo spot on! 😂😂😂
Rite of Passage, when passing your driving test in Michigan!!!😂😂😂
@@jameswood231 and for high school graduations
I was born in Indiana, raised in Georgia, so I can verify the accuracy of these statements. Hockey is fun to watch by the way. Personally, I think we should make it a summertime sport, so when its 105 degrees outside, we can go sit inside a nice chilly hockey arena.
History of NHL in Atlanta GA .... Flames and Thrashers moving to two wonderful grateful Canadian cities (Calgary and Winnipeg)! The third Atlanta NHL team would be very welcome and fit nicely in Quebec City! The Atlanta's best ice show happens each winter with "you guys" driving on I-65 and I-20.
I got hooked on hockey in the mid-70s, when I was in Hotlanta. I had season tickets for a few years then moved away. The affection for the game has never waned, and now I'm a Canes fan. It's a shame that hockey didn't last in Atlanta, but maybe the third time is the charm. GO CANES!
@@carlhuffman454 Are you referring to the Hartford Whalers "on vacation" Most of the "Canes" fan base live around on point of the RTA as a "Concentrated Area of Relocated Yankees." As a Whalers fan, I moved my support to the Canes and enjoy their success in the Carolinas! " LET GO WHALERS" still sings in my heart.
Thanks for the reply. I live in SC and have no axe to grind with Hartford or its Whalers fans. As to the vacation idea, for the last five years or so that has been over for our team. GO CANES!@@rkleedham
@@rkleedham, do you live in the area? The Canes are a whole lot deeper than "relocated Yankees," and are 100% a Carolina team.
@@p-47thunderbolt57 I do not live in the area, but I have been to The Canes' games at home. I like the support they have and I do support them. To me the Canes franchise will always be rooted in New England (old WHA days) 🥰🐳🐋🌀
Florida adores hockey. Especially Tampa. I have never seen people so obsessed with a hockey team then when I moved to Tampa from Washington, DC.
It is probably so you guys down there can cool down for a bit.
As a child of a "mixed-marriage" (half Southern, half Yankee lol), I appreciate different things about each. This is great.
Edited to add: Don't me wrong, I'm a UGA girl, but you're acting like Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State aren't sitting there at the top of the rankings above most SEC teams, my friend. Justice for non-SEC football! 😂
They might be at the top , but they haven't won the big yet. 😁SEC 🏆you got to love it😁
Girl!!! Same here! Born and bred in Georgia, but I’m half GA half SOUTH Jersey. UGA is my ride or die but those Nittany Lions are looking real good this year (that’s my yankee team).
win one then
@@timskelton4958 Ohio State did win the first one ... I know it's been since 20014, but it did happen.
@@MichaelDawson03 🤣🤣🤣 your right , One😁
Ooh that national championship line...aged like milk
We got a lot of drive-thru stores in Florida as well not as many as there were a few decades ago but let's face it we're on the fringe of southern also
As one of those "Yankees" from New England, I found this funny especially at the end when he poked fun at us. I could suggest for either #9 or #10 driving is snow is something we do better at. But even we have stupid fos in the north that are used to ice and snow who still can't drive properly in it.
*in snow
Part of all that is the road care - the South ain't got salt trucks and plows like the North does. Don't need 'em except for once every three-four years.
We mat have all that equipment for road care, but still at times town/city or state trucks do crappy jobs on some of the roads here.
@@Minalkra Being from NJ myself, this was something that blew my mind when I got stationed at Dyess AFB in Texas. MAYBE half an inch of snow hit the ground and the entire town shut down for a couple days. Apparently, at the time I was there 10 years ago, Abilene had 1 plow, 1 salt truck, and 1 guy to drive both. So on top of everyone in the town not knowing how to handle it, there was no way for them to stop the melting snow from freezing into ice during the night.
These are a few of the many reasons why I moved to Chicago from Texas as a 5th generation Texan. And yes I live in the south side of Chicago not in Hyde Park . It isn’t that bad and I’ve seen the crime and city change since I started coming here ten years ago. I’ve lived here for almost 3 years. Lived in TN and CO before for a couple years a piece. You forgot they have the option to not sweat here year around and they do have winter and they don’t have bugs in the same way we do down south. Btw Matt were Texan not southern, southwest if anything. That being said I am very proud of my Texas roots and heritage. The short video you posted about with a cold front and chili was hilarious and timely because today for my Chicagoan friends I made them real Texas chili because I trashed talked all the tomatoes soup and ragú sauce they try passing off as chili and it drives me nuts. They all fell in love and I even made a brisket red chili like they used to most common among cowboys on cattle drives.i must admit aside from many different cuisines the north lacks in spices and that is where southerners prevail we are very generous with the seasonings. I had a brisket today in Chicago and I did not hold back how bland and dry it is and asked where the dry rub is.
Yes, I grew up here in Wisconsin and didn't really learn anything about herbs and spices, which we also didn't really use unless a recipe said to, with the exceptions of cinnamon and black pepper. As I got into my teens, we were eating even more carefully/healthy, me esp. per my health, and cut out all things such as the "cream of" soups, packaged bullions, and anything else with MSG or other junk in em. So, in an effort to make something like a soup or casserole with those midwest staples of my parent's upbringing and local cookbooks, I started experimenting with the spice rack and paying attn. to any info on their use that came my way. I was super busy, and ever more so for years, on our dairy farm though, so, I didn't cook a lot or take a class or anything, and believe me, when your exhausted and hungry, just salt and pepper on a hamburger, and ditto plus butter on plain veggies, tastes wonderful. I have long been a fan of more plain flavors, for what they are, than some tho. Like plain cheerios over honey nut, plain oatmeal with just cream, and like I said w the meat n veg. We often had really good, homegrown basics tho, too and that helps a LOT. While our beef animal wasn't 100% grass fed, she ( usually it was a free martin) WAS mainly pastured and forage fed, not often very highly grain finished, and never knee deep in manure for weeks at time like even my Dad's cousin's bunch of steers lived for the last many months or so of their life... ( my husband can smell the manure smell in a feedlot animal being cooked... ). Anyway, all I'd meant to say is that I think the main reason for lack of spices used here is that things like peppers aren't native here, and in WI and MN, we're very heavily settled by Norwegians. We Germans use strong flavors but many of those flavors, recipes, foods had fallen out of popularity/common usage. From hearty rye bread to sauerkraut to sauerbraten to sweet n sour hot german potato Salad. Parsley, Dill, onion, caraway, sage, thyme, vinegars, pickled beets, eggs and herring.., beer brats, cheeses incl. stinky ones (!) ... apples, plums, rhubarb, custards, puddings... yum ! Mostly not the types of flavors you're thinking of, I bet !
'Devil Bugs'.
I'm a northerner (New England), but I lived in Florida for a few years as a teen.
One year, I was helping a neighbor move bricks, and my right leg sunk *up to my knee* into a nest of fire ants.
That was a new kind of pain.
Condolences. That's a lot.
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Boy, this crow sure is tasty!
Hockey: Absolutely see hockey in person if you get the chance. It just does not translate well to tv unless you've seen a few games live. It is SO different in person. I used to go to see the minor league games at the Dorton Arena in Raleigh before they got the Hurricanes, and you really get a whole new appreciation of it in person. And man those games were great. So many fights. But really seeing the whole rink you get to understand it better, it's like faster basketball in some ways. Yeah, I compared it to basketball.
Went to my first NHL game last December. Saw the Canes beat my beloved Stars in double OT. Nothing like it.
id say its more like soccer but faster, physical and on ice. which makes it a lot cooler than soccer
@@UserName-ts3sp I get you. I just couldn't use soccer, as I consider that an insult. Hahaha
When you go to a fight to see a hockey game break out... then you know you love hockey
Who ain't gonna be at the National Championship?