Musing on Coincidences

During out last night in Savannah, Caroline and I began musing on coincidences, or perhaps patterns, that we noticed in Savannah over the course of our stay. Now that I'm back at home, I feel like I can appreciate those differences even more. Here's a list of things I noticed, please note these are huge generalizations and I in no way mean to offend anyone!

1) Northern people dress nicer. We just do. We look a lot more put together, and we all have much more distinctive senses of style. We're more stylistically diverse in the North, and we pull of those styles better.

2) Southern teenage girls are shockingly unkind to other girls. We experienced this a couple of times over the course of our stay (one in the form of our first encounter with my cousin's girlfriend, who I pray will never find this blog post) and in most of them we were simply being our goofy selves and enjoying ourselves when other girls began to make fun of us, not very subtly, right in front of us! It was something neither Caroline or I had experienced before, and it was a little shocking!

3) The food is way better in the South. This may seem self evident, but I can't think of a bad meal I had while I was there. We ate out multiple times a day, and from a picky-eater's perspective, it was absolute heaven.

4) In the South, people are much more inviting and willing to help. This applied to a lot of situations including doing interviews, asking for directions, or just wanted to have a good chat. It's not just that the people are nicer, it's that they're far more open to new experiences, which I greatly admire.

Of course everybody's experience may be unique, but for me, those little distinctions in Northern and Southern cultures became very apparent after a solid two weeks spent on "the dark side" if you will (: