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I left the south for the first time and it's absolutely lodged in my brain. (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I took a trip to Colorado this summer and it was the first time in my life I ever really left the south. It just blew my fucking mind. I love where I'm from, but there's just so much fucked up shit that I just thought was how it was. I'm a white cishet, so I'm not vulnerable to the worst of the south, but it absolutely blew my mind seeing somewhere that you didn't just have a background level of distressing shit in view at all times. The most striking thing was how there weren't any ruins around. You get used to seeing overgrown, dilapidated buildings dotting the side of the road pretty much everywhere you go. It was wild to me how rare that was, comparatively, once you get to the other side of Texas. There's a million other things, but honestly I didn't spend enough time there to really know if all of them are the norm or if I'm just making shit up. As shitty as I feel saying it, it would also be nice to try dating somewhere there weren't quite so many ""country"" girls.

My only regret would be leaving behind all my friends and family. That's just such an insane leap to me, and I have no faith that I'd be able to find new friends elsewhere now that I'm out of college. I know I'm experiencing a massively cliche impulse and all that, and that there's lots of problems that will follow you wherever you move, but how do I know if I'm insane or not? Does anybody have advice for trying to find a job somewhere you don't live? I'm sick of all these damn pine trees.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

I was born in Colorado and moved to the south around 9 years old. I know exactly what you’re talking about. I also made a trip back to Colorado this summer to see my childhood home and to see how the areas changed. Great trip and if any of you get the chance to visit it you will not be disappointed. It really is sad though visiting because being in the south makes you forget that it doesn’t have to be as hard as it is. So many small things slip by you that you don’t even realize is a problem until you see somewhere different. I will say though even though I was born there I have lived in the south long enough comparatively that I’m definitely a southerner now. Southern people got that dawg in em that people from other places don’t. It can be a good and bad thing, but it’s mostly good I think. It makes me appreciate who I am, but I do wonder who I would have been if I had stayed.