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Trying to connect with people working at Oconee in Seneca, SC

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germanjawcracker:

--- Quote from: EKYEstes on Jul 30, 2012, 03:51 ---My husband will be detaching from the Navy this winter and we are looking for people who work or have worked at the Oconee plant in Seneca, SC.  We are interested in relocating to the area and have a lot of questions.  We'd be much appreciative of anyone able to help us out  :)
Thanks!
Erin Estes
Ballston Spa, NY

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It sucks here, stay up north.

merchantg:
I believe it depends heavily on how you fit in with people as to how you will enjoy it. In general if you are not from the deep south the less you will gel until you get to FL where everyone is a transplant. I get along with just about anybody I have been told that by many people. That being said born and raised southerners can and will get under your skin mostly in part because of the concrete attitude towards anything that isn't the way they were raised. Southerners will be polite even to people they do not like. If you like doing anything outdoors you will get along well with most of the men. Atlanta is not a tourist town it is the biggest city with nothing to do. No offense but Virginia is not considered "south" by anybody I work with and you will be treated like you were from NJ. This attitude fades as you hit North Carolina where there is more emphasis on new ideas and education. I believe people who just visit like areas down here but in truth if you do not already have friends and family you will eventually be miserable. After 10 years I am trying to move my wife and I close to her family and away from the deep south, she has tried so hard to make friends and the women are truly brutal if you didn't grow up with them. Good luck I hope you find a nice place to settle.

EKYEstes:

--- Quote from: germanjawcracker on Nov 01, 2012, 07:21 ---It sucks here, stay up north.

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Why does it suck?

EKYEstes:

--- Quote from: merchantg on Nov 01, 2012, 08:06 ---I believe it depends heavily on how you fit in with people as to how you will enjoy it. In general if you are not from the deep south the less you will gel until you get to FL where everyone is a transplant. I get along with just about anybody I have been told that by many people. That being said born and raised southerners can and will get under your skin mostly in part because of the concrete attitude towards anything that isn't the way they were raised. Southerners will be polite even to people they do not like. If you like doing anything outdoors you will get along well with most of the men. Atlanta is not a tourist town it is the biggest city with nothing to do. No offense but Virginia is not considered "south" by anybody I work with and you will be treated like you were from NJ. This attitude fades as you hit North Carolina where there is more emphasis on new ideas and education. I believe people who just visit like areas down here but in truth if you do not already have friends and family you will eventually be miserable. After 10 years I am trying to move my wife and I close to her family and away from the deep south, she has tried so hard to make friends and the women are truly brutal if you didn't grow up with them. Good luck I hope you find a nice place to settle.

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I felt right at home when I visited and found the people very nice.  I'm not from NOVA or Hampton Roads (which both should be their own states), but I'm born & raised Southern Baptist from a farm in the shadows of the mountains of Virginia and consider myself a Southerner through and through.  I trace my lineage back to a 1630's crossing of the Atlantic and I totally understand their sense of place and can identify with that since I want nothing more than to move back home (but can't, however, because my husband dislikes the area I'm from :'( and we can't afford to live there) But we are a very outdoorsy family and like to hike, rock climb, canoe/kayak, etc. I can identify with their want to keep things the way they've always been and not be as friendly to northerners or other people who come in, buy up land, build it up, and then leave their unaffordable houses behind as my folks and family back home are dealing with that now.  I see at as more of a defense mechanism they've built up over the years in their personalities and I wouldn't take their dislike to us initially personally.  My husband may find it a bit inhospitable being from Michigan, but I think he'll adapt well.  I think the difference between he and I is that when someone asks us where we're from, I say "I'm Virginian and he's from Michigan, but we're living in New York right now following the Navy," where he responds, "we're from New York."

RDTroja:

--- Quote from: EKYEstes on Nov 01, 2012, 12:19 ---Why does it suck?

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It doesn't. That's southernspeak for 'You're a Yankee... stay away.'

I worked there in the early 80s and it is a beautiful place, but not my favorite. I ran into many locals that were outwardly friendly but ummm... lacked in sincerity. They would smile and welcome you while wishing you would go away. I am from Maryland, which is technically a southern state (South of the Mason-Dixon Line) and Southern Maryland is farther south than a lot of Virginia, but to the locals I was as Yankee as a Bostonian.

The area is (or was 30 years ago) very pretty and the weather is nice. Most of the people are very friendly. Some of the people there will make you feel unwelcome even as they smile at you. It makes some people uncomfortable enough to make them want to leave... but that is the intent in the first place.

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