We finally did it and bought that house in the South, the deep South. So tell me what should I expect different about being in the South except the weather being warmer?
Grits instead of potatoes with breakfast.
Also, less rushing around. Standing in the line at the deli with my Mom drives me crazy when she visits here because northeast deli's cut meat FAST, which she repeatedly points out. The pace of the retail workforce seems slower here.
Really depends on where in the south you are moving and where you are moving from. Also depends on larger city vs small town vs really small town.
The one piece of advice I can give you is to not complain about how everything is different and better from where you moved. Try to assimilate into the culture and go with the flow. There are a lot of transplants here and the thing that grates on my nerves is someone telling me how we do everything wrong down here.
I've had grocery store employees bring my groceries to the car.
I don't know if they still do that but...clearly, here in the NE they don't do that, and I was like "get your stinkin hands off my groceries" inside my head until I realized that's just what they do.
And the "ma'am" and "sir" too.
And a generally slower pace of life.