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“If my kids have a Southern accent, I will kill myself.”
NY Sun profiles the 40,000 New Yorkers who’ve moved to Atlanta. Things they bitch about include but are not limited to: Southern accents, lack of pizza, slow speech and movement, cars. Things they rightfully praise: affordable housing. This isn’t a joke. The houses in Atlanta are huge. They all have seven bedrooms, two wings, a basement, an attic, a pool, and a giant trampoline in the backyard.
Funny.
There are worse things than your kids growing up with Southern accents. They could grow up to become rude, obnoxious, Yankee snobs.
I would love to have a Southern accent. I met an external examiner at my university recently, and while I can’t place her accent (I’m guessing Tennessee), it was like music. I could have listened to her voice for ages, and had to stop myself addressing her as “Miss Carolyn”.