Living in the Deep South (USA)

overgrowem

overgrowem

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heyYousGuys said:
Yea, it's easy to pick on the South unless you're from here you dumb fuck. Matter of fact, my local laws ARE EXTREMELY lenient with marijuana, SO MUCH SO IT'S DECRIMINALIZED, but I guess it's fodder for you to say what the masses judge it by. Fuck you.
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Where in the south is MJ. decriminalized?
 
mindphuk

mindphuk

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Sunbiz1 said:
The food tastes better?. I have eaten in every single state from Wisconsin to Florida, and it all depends on who is doing the cooking. For example, try finding good Chinese food south of the Mason-Dixon...you won't b/c it all sucks.
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Sorry but no. There might not be as many good ones as there are in China Town, but here in Atlanta, we have some of the best Asian cuisine I ever had, including Chinese, you just need to talk to the right people. Come to Atlanta and I will take to you Canton Cooks

Same with pizza, unless the joint is owned by a New Yorker or Chicagoan. Now, I realize there are those that swear they have good pizza..but that's only b/c they are used to the shitty stuff.
The only food classes the south own are BBQ and cajun...which doesn't say a whole lot.
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Mellow Mushroom Pizza is awesome and it is definitely stoner friendly. We do have a few good NY and Chicago style pizza places but I prefer the local places like Johnny's, Blue Moon and of course Fellini's. BBQ here is okay but we don't have a special style like NC or KC and the quality is sometimes hit or miss. You missed a major class of food and that's southern style, which can be incredible with a top chef, of which we have our fair share. Greenwood's on Green Street is one of my faves and the place is so laid back and very stoneresque with their hippie commune motif. The chef owner looks like Jerry Garcia.
 
Finshaggy

Finshaggy

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And the south is good for some things.

1, Reggie in the South is cheaper than medical bud in medical states.
2, food. So much bad ass food in the country.
3, Tons of black people, and tons of stoners. And life gets boring up in these white states, trust me. (Cali's good though)
4, Everyone's not all about "In and Out"...Grilled onions aren't that great, and I don't need bible verses with my burger.
5, Chic-Fil-a...Some people don't have it...
6, In the south people will courteously hide their meth use. In Cali you get no such manners.
7, In Cali if there is a traffic jam, everyone thinks "There better be a wreck/Someone better be dead."
The south isn't all bad, it's got some bad ass stuff about it too :D :D
 
Sunbiz1

Sunbiz1

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mindphuk said:
Sorry but no. There might not be as many good ones as there are in China Town, but here in Atlanta, we have some of the best Asian cuisine I ever had, including Chinese, you just need to talk to the right people. Come to Atlanta and I will take to you Canton Cooks

Mellow Mushroom Pizza is awesome and it is definitely stoner friendly. We do have a few good NY and Chicago style pizza places but I prefer the local places like Johnny's, Blue Moon and of course Fellini's. BBQ here is okay but we don't have a special style like NC or KC and the quality is sometimes hit or miss. You missed a major class of food and that's southern style, which can be incredible with a top chef, of which we have our fair share. Greenwood's on Green Street is one of my faves and the place is so laid back and very stoneresque with their hippie commune motif. The chef owner looks like Jerry Garcia.
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I've been to Atlanta, wasted an entire weekend there driving in circles. The city is all segregated by race, right down to the street names(which BTW confuses the hell out of tourists). One minute you're driving down Peach whatever street(there are hundreds with this name), and then all the sudden it changes. They should have just numbered them all.

The food is good there, particularly the breakfast I had on the black side of town after getting lost yet again. And Bucktown is nice, but I still prefer Marietta.
 
mindphuk

mindphuk

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Sunbiz1 said:
I've been to Atlanta, wasted an entire weekend there driving in circles. The city is all segregated by race, right down to the street names(which BTW confuses the hell out of tourists). One minute you're driving down Peach whatever street(there are hundreds with this name), and then all the sudden it changes. They should have just numbered them all.

The food is good there, particularly the breakfast I had on the black side of town after getting lost yet again. And Bucktown is nice, but I still prefer Marietta.
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The streets here are horrible. The names confuse even veterans. I still get confused where Alpharetta Highway turns into Roswell Road, and NOT the Roswell Road in Marietta, that turns into Marietta Highway before it intersects the Roswell Road in Roswell. Don't get me started on Johnson Ferry and all of the fookin' "Ferry" roads because every plantation along the river had a road leading up to it. Then you get street numbers repeating on the same street, just with NW or SE tacked on. Makes using a GPS a challenge if you don't know the compass coordinates of place you are trying to get to.
 
Sunbiz1

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mindphuk said:
The streets here are horrible. The names confuse even veterans. I still get confused where Alpharetta Highway turns into Roswell Road, and NOT the Roswell Road in Marietta, that turns into Marietta Highway before it intersects the Roswell Road in Roswell. Don't get me started on Johnson Ferry and all of the fookin' "Ferry" roads because every plantation along the river had a road leading up to it. Then you get street numbers repeating on the same street, just with NW or SE tacked on. Makes using a GPS a challenge if you don't know the compass coordinates of place you are trying to get to.
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Hal's restaurant in Atlanta, best dinner I ever had there...damn well should have at $150 for 2. LOL, you live there and still get lost. Here is how the original street naming was explained to me by locals. The whites didn't want to associate themselves with the blacks, and vice-versa. So they named streets to differentiate themselves from one another.

I'll be the first to admit I don't care for Atlanta, the traffic is worse than Chicago(which I avoid as well). I love the rest of the state though, particularly the NE portion near the SC border(Chattooga River). Little known fact, that's where the movie Deliverance was actually filmed.
 
mindphuk

mindphuk

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Sunbiz1 said:
Hal's restaurant in Atlanta, best dinner I ever had there...damn well should have at $150 for 2. LOL, you live there and still get lost. Here is how the original street naming was explained to me by locals. The whites didn't want to associate themselves with the blacks, and vice-versa. So they named streets to differentiate themselves from one another.

I'll be the first to admit I don't care for Atlanta, the traffic is worse than Chicago(which I avoid as well). I love the rest of the state though, particularly the NE portion near the SC border(Chattooga River). Little known fact, that's where the movie Deliverance was actually filmed.
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Some of it was racial, other areas change names because the counties are so small (again, because of the size of the plantations) and crossing from one to the next often gets a name change.

Here's an interesting snippet that confirms what you say:

Something like 55 streets in Atlanta have the word "Peachtree" in their names. How did this mania begin? The first Peachtree was a Creek Indian village on the Chattahoochee River called Standing Peachtree. An army outpost built nearby took the name Fort Peachtree. The road that linked it to Fort Daniel in Gwinnett County was the first Peachtree Road. (The Old Peachtree Road Exit on the Northeast Expressway has confused many a traveler heading into Atlanta, since it's more than 30 minutes outside town.)

From this has come a forest of Peachtrees. But even if you could keep this jumble straight, there are more hazards ahead.

It's not uncommon for the same street to have two, three or even more names in different locations. You're driving on Juniper Street and suddenly it's Courtland; you head east on Decatur Street, and it turns into DeKalb Avenue.

This is sometimes the result of the way the city developed, block by block. In other places, it dates from the days of racial segregation, when it was meant to convey an unsubtle message of divided territory. This was the case at Ponce de Leon Avenue, once a racial dividing line. South of Ponce, Monroe becomes Boulevard; Briarcliff becomes Moreland. In many suburban counties, the streets frequently change names depending on the direction you're headed: For instance, in Cobb County, the road west from Marietta to Powder Springs is Powder Springs Road. The same street in Powder Springs is called Marietta Street. Sometimes its handy to think about where you want to go, and take the appropriately named road!

A favorite Atlanta city hall activity is renaming streets, or sections of streets, to honor civic leaders or to recognize social changes. Although a noble gesture in itself, this too causes confusion. Take Irwin that at Peachtree becomes John Wesley Dobbs Avenue. Before it was renamed in 1994 for the distinguished businessman and activist, the final stretch was called Houston (pronounced "house-ton" in Atlanta-speak). Such changes typically take years to show up on most maps, however.

Furthermore, terms such as "street" and "avenue" and "boulevard" are often used without apparent rhyme or reason. Peachtree Street runs north and south, but 10th Street runs east and west. North Avenue runs east and west, but Piedmont Avenue runs north and south. Ralph McGill Boulevard runs east and west, but Boulevard (south Monroe Drive) runs north and south. (Before it was renamed as a tribute to the progressive newspaper editor, Ralph McGill Boulevard was called Forrest Avenue, honoring a Confederate general and father of the Ku Klux Klan.)​
 
Sunbiz1

Sunbiz1

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mindphuk said:
Some of it was racial, other areas change names because the counties are so small (again, because of the size of the plantations) and crossing from one to the next often gets a name change.

Here's an interesting snippet that confirms what you say:
Something like 55 streets in Atlanta have the word "Peachtree" in their names. How did this mania begin? The first Peachtree was a Creek Indian village on the Chattahoochee River called Standing Peachtree. An army outpost built nearby took the name Fort Peachtree. The road that linked it to Fort Daniel in Gwinnett County was the first Peachtree Road. (The Old Peachtree Road Exit on the Northeast Expressway has confused many a traveler heading into Atlanta, since it's more than 30 minutes outside town.)

From this has come a forest of Peachtrees. But even if you could keep this jumble straight, there are more hazards ahead.

It's not uncommon for the same street to have two, three or even more names in different locations. You're driving on Juniper Street and suddenly it's Courtland; you head east on Decatur Street, and it turns into DeKalb Avenue.

This is sometimes the result of the way the city developed, block by block. In other places, it dates from the days of racial segregation, when it was meant to convey an unsubtle message of divided territory. This was the case at Ponce de Leon Avenue, once a racial dividing line. South of Ponce, Monroe becomes Boulevard; Briarcliff becomes Moreland. In many suburban counties, the streets frequently change names depending on the direction you're headed: For instance, in Cobb County, the road west from Marietta to Powder Springs is Powder Springs Road. The same street in Powder Springs is called Marietta Street. Sometimes its handy to think about where you want to go, and take the appropriately named road!

A favorite Atlanta city hall activity is renaming streets, or sections of streets, to honor civic leaders or to recognize social changes. Although a noble gesture in itself, this too causes confusion. Take Irwin that at Peachtree becomes John Wesley Dobbs Avenue. Before it was renamed in 1994 for the distinguished businessman and activist, the final stretch was called Houston (pronounced "house-ton" in Atlanta-speak). Such changes typically take years to show up on most maps, however.

Furthermore, terms such as "street" and "avenue" and "boulevard" are often used without apparent rhyme or reason. Peachtree Street runs north and south, but 10th Street runs east and west. North Avenue runs east and west, but Piedmont Avenue runs north and south. Ralph McGill Boulevard runs east and west, but Boulevard (south Monroe Drive) runs north and south. (Before it was renamed as a tribute to the progressive newspaper editor, Ralph McGill Boulevard was called Forrest Avenue, honoring a Confederate general and father of the Ku Klux Klan.)​
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No surprise here, there have been a number of social articles dedicated to the history of racial disharmony in Atlanta. I didn't see any evidence of what used to be Atlanta during my last visit in 2005, other than the traffic mess due to this ridiculous re-naming approach they took. That's why I suggested numbers. I mean, who really gives a shit what a street is named outside of some asshole politician/perhaps the dead guy's family?. A numbered system for E/W/N/S only streets would alleviate a lot of headaches.
 
gargantuanganja

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I love Texas. It's the shit. Although the laws could be a bit more geared towards violent & sexual crimes and far less on drugs, I still love it here. Hopefully, I can move to Colorado someday, but that's only because snow skiing and bud are literally my two favorite things. If marijuana was as legitimate in TX as it is in CA or CO, I'd be a happy son-of-a-bitch. I must say, I like the people in TX better than most places, but ignorance, stupidity, and fagginess are an unstoppable force amongst youngsters. I'm not necessarily against gay people, I honestly don't mind a lot of them (the humble type), but I think this new trend of guys wearing girl pants and guys turning into pussies everywhere is an epidemic and it needs to be stopped. I'm getting a bit off topic, but Texas fucking rocks. Austinites are a different breed of people. I don't like most of the people I've met in Austin, either. I guess I just really don't like people anymore... I don't know why everyone thinks they're special these days
 
Bluehoo

Bluehoo

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I live in NC, been here since 70. The area here has come a long way. We have 5 great microbreweries in and around my town. We've had a huge influx of people from NJ, MI, OH, NY, MA. The ones I've talked to love it here. Must be the job opportunities, mild winters and affordable housing.

The South is not without it's warts but what region isn't?
 
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