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Enscheff, by your remarks about the south in general (I'm actually from the Midwest originally), how did you become a Braves fan. Just curious.
Garmel (05-19-2017)
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jpx7 (05-19-2017)
jpx7 (05-19-2017), The Chosen One (05-19-2017)
Braves on TBS every day after the Andy Griffith Show. Got old enough to really follow baseball right as the Braves got good in '91, so a 12 year old jumped on the bandwagon.
I catch them every time they come to SF or Oakland, and have seen them in LA as well. I try to make the trip to the cesspool that is the South once a year to catch a weekend series in Atlanta. How anyone stands being in the outhouse of the US more than a few days at a time is beyond me.
jpx7 (05-19-2017)
I grew up in 105 degree summers that were plenty less miserable. GA's humidity is unreal and I also never had allergies until I moved hear.
jpx7 (05-19-2017), The Chosen One (05-19-2017)
The humidity is a massive part of why I'll never live in the south-east again, unless professional factors absolutely dictate I must (which isn't very likely). Having spent the better part of sixteen years growing up in Pensacola, Florida, I know intimately how heinous the humidity gets, and I have no desire to ever experience it again. Even the two months of summer in Chicago was a bit too damp for my tastes; meanwhile, the life-affirming aridity of Arizona is something I'll actually dearly miss when I move on to my next port-of-call in a few months.
But to Enscheff's point—though I'm by no means as damning or denigratory as him on this score—the culture of the south-east, generally, is another big part of why I never want to move back.
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