Everywhere, EXCEPT New York

I have traveled and lived all across the United States, but for some reason, I had never been to New York. I'm am a southern baby and the thought of a place like New York, used to send chills down my spine. It was like, the most dangerous place on earth.

I've met plenty of people from New York--and boy are they known to us southerners, because all New Yorkers ever talk about is,

"There ain't nothing to do here!"

and,

"I can't wait to go back to New York!"

In fact, there are so many New Yorkers down south that I had wondered if there was some type of mass exodus.

What were/are they fleeing? The monster rats and crime, I heard. For all the greatness they insist New York is, I've not once met a person that said they were moving TO New York (minus new college graduates that had/have some type of business, arts, or communications major--they don't count).

So, when an opportunity presented itself for me to take on "The City," I had to laugh because who'da thought life would take me in this direction. I'm a slow-talkin', slow movin', cheese grits and sardines eatin', mosquito-bitten, sun-baked Down South Girl.