The 8 Sizes of Southern Places
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- Ever wondered if you're living in a town or city? This helpful guide to classifying your hometown's status should clear that up. Just be careful if your a LUD. There's no going back once you lose that status.
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Subscribe or vacation in Beat 10
Is Paint Rock Alabama an option?
Way out there is over yonder
"Both" is an option, right?
I’m from Kind of Between, so I’d actually enjoy vacationing in Beat 10. 😂😂😂
I kinda feel for those that live in LUD. There's 8 DG's within a 10 mile radius of my work office. 😆
You missed one: Speed trap towns. The town that no matter how slow you're going, you WILL get pulled over and WILL get a speeding ticket in, because that is pretty much the only income the town actually has.
On the way to Florida
UNION TOWN AL! I swear their whole economy relied on that shit! Got my parents and my nana.
Yemassee SC
Got one in a neighboring county. You know you are near when the traffic "congeals" into a crawling clump of metal.😁
Arcade, GA
Pretty close, but you missed the "Suburban Nation". Places that are called "cities" but are pretty much just a few shopping centers and chain restaurants surrounded by endless neighborhoods because the land was cheap back in the 90s.
yessss
Oh! I grew up in one of those!
and Dollar Generals in places that you never noticed until they started construction.
Yep, that's where I live. But I grew up "way out there."
Well, in all fairness, that isn't unique to the South. Those neighborhoods sprawl across the entire nation.
My Memaw always said, “They live ‘way yonder’!” Translation…”Two or more towns away!” She was born in 1901…I miss her amazing words of wisdom❤
What is a "Memaw". Is that kind of like a "maw maw"? Just joking with you. In my experience, memaw seems more like rural south, whereas maw maw is everywhere.
Yeah, i had a great uncle born in 1900, that i talked to a lot in my youth. Church deacon, always calm voice. Once his wife died, i remembered him visiting her grave after every Sunday morning xhurch service.
There's two levels...there's 'way yonder then there's 'way *over* yonder 😀
"I'm going to have to move to Atlanta.
Actually, I'd rather die." 😂
My sentiments exactly!!
These days, living in Atlanta does have a chance of that happening.
I'd rather have a sister in a whore house than a friend that lived in.....no, just visited Atlanta.
I don't know much about the south, but I do know this.
If I had a brother in prison and a brother in Atlanta, I’d bust the one in Atlanta out first.
Good chance you get your wish if you did move there
Matt Mitchell describing the geography of the South never fails to entertain!
I grew up 'just outside of town'. We could walk there, if it wasn't too hot. There was a bait shop and the Dairy King (yes, not Queen), then when you got 'into town', there was a grocery store and post office, and a little further down a drug store across from a gas station. Then we got a bank, and the grocery store moved next to the bank (meaning you couldn't easily go to the post office after shopping). Then we got a truck stop with a diner, and the place was hoppin'. If you wanted to go to the movies, there was a drive-in and a movie theater (with one screen) in the 'real town' nearby. The people in the real town, which had a Piggly-Wiggly, a high school, two banks, and two doctors' offices, looked down on us as hicks, but we were allowed to let our dogs run around outside, which they couldn't do in the big town, so I didn't mind. Moving from there to Long Island when I was 15 was a shock.
I feel you! I moved from a place of about 300 people to Nashville. I will never forget looking at all those cars on that great big tangle of interstates, and wondering where could they all possibly be going!❤️🤗🐝
Scottsville, Kentucky, where my great grandmother was from, had a Burger Queen.
Yes sir! Dairy King is indeed a real thing. Saw one decades ago in B.F.E. Texas.
I miss drive ins they're so much better than regular movie theaters
Grew up in a place like that, married a Yankee and now live in LI. I feel your pain
My friends always described where I lived as “the boonies.” Our address had the nearest town name for mailing purposes, but we were technically in unincorporated land. My mama was watching a local story about another town where they were talking about how they were glad to have a Walmart move into town so they had another place to hang out other than the town square. She was laughing at them until she realized we didn’t have either. 😂
Now we live in a mix of town and in between. We have a Dollar General and a Walmart close by, but they’re technically the next town over despite being a few miles down the road. Technically our “town” doesn’t even have a gas station. 😝
😂 ...and you couldn't be happier 😁
Boonies and BFE. The latter is an acronym. I'm not translating it because I'm Christian, but if you know, you know.
You are now our southern spokesperson. You explain southern things accurately, almost too well. Anytime there's a movie made with a reference to the south they have to refer to you. Lets keep em straight
“Southern Consultant on a Movie Set” sounds like a dang good sketch
@@alostrich YES! Please! It’ll make up for living in metro-Atlanta =)😂
@@alostrich yes, it does. Now go on and get on it.
@@alostrich This must become a series
Is it still ok to say “keep ‘em straight”?
As a member of the LUD community, I can confirm this is all true.
LUD LMAO
What a minute. How did you even watch this video? In fact, how do you even know there is such a thing as video?
Same all I got is a stop sign and a rode
@@Around_The_Home he took a vacation to beat10
Land unknown to Dollar General. 😂😂😂😂😂
When telling people where you're from, you also have to consider your audience. This is my method:
- If they are invited to my house - I say we're a mile and a half south of the nearest LUD
- If they live in the same state and are closer to my parents' age - I give the name of the nearest town
- If they live in the same state and are closer to my age - I give the name of the nearest city, and then the next nearest city if the first one didn't work
- If they are from a neighboring state - I treat it like a Kind of Between situation, but I just say it's northwest of one of the major cities because there are no major cities in the other direction for hundreds of miles
- If they are from a distant state - I give the name of my state. If they ask me to be more specific, I ask, "Do you know the name of any cities in my state?"
That last one won't work in Texas, Georgia or Florida everyone knows Dallas, Atlanta, Miami
"A few hours north/south of [major city people have probably heard of or Tuscaloosa/Auburn if they pay attention to SEC Football]" works too.
bro ive been all across the country and you made me realize i dont remember cities to a lot of states.
All I can say is it took Google and 2 hours to find the house I moved into 3 years ago.We're not in Civ. here people.
@@jessicacolegrove4152then you ask them, do you know any cities from (insert section of the state you live in). For me, I always say middle, and most know zero of the cities in the Middle GA region, and even less know of any in the flood pains side of it.
I grew up in a town big enough to have a tag office (you know, to renew car tags) but it was in the back of the furniture store. Not behind it, IN THE BACK part of the store. Some years dad came home with new license plates AND a recliner!
🤣🤣👏🏼 omg, pleeez give Matt permission to use that one
😂😂
I'm surprised you didn't include back down the hollar....Mostly just one big family compound w/all the land owned by Grandpa Jeb and various structures and mobile homes dotting the landscape. There will always be a couple dwellings that make you ask, how'd they get that back up thar'....? The answer is usually Skeeters tractor...
That's the advance course
Lol❤️🤗🐝
Hey, I think we may be neighbors lol
I need a gif
Yonder way.
Yonder way, when clarified, is, "it ain't really nowhere."
Something I absolutely LOVE in rural areas are the 'general stores' that sell everything from custard powder to fishing tackle! I travelled around Britsh Columbia Canada and many places had the vibes you're describing in the South, one place had one store which was also a post office, one gas station and a "museum" with nothing else for miles! Loved it!!
I grew up in such a place in Kentucky. But along with the store that sold everything, we had 2 churches and the elementary school that served that whole end of the county. We were important!! Lol❤️🤗🐝
@@deborahdanhauer8525 oh wow, one school ha! I imagine most folks must have started out knowing each other even if they later moved elsewhere ☺ Thanks for sharing!🌟
@@jpc3603 oh yes, we knew each other for miles around. There were a few grade schools in the county. One of them was the one by me. But there was only one high school in the county. It was about 15 miles away. There were 1500 kids age 14-18 in the whole county when I was in high school. I think it’s the same amount of students now. There is still only the one high school now❤️🤗🐝
I can hear the floors creak under people's feet just reading your comments....
I'm from BC and this is very true, I'm living in KY now and get the same kind of vibes in some of the little towns here as I did back home
So the line about abandoned downtowns got me. The town I grew up in once had a downtown before I was born. There was a fire that ruined several buildings. They were abandoned and never torn down or rebuilt. That was probably 75 years ago.
My town had a thriving manufacturing industry when i was little. But, it got decimated during the early 90s recession, and never really recovered. Lot of abandoned factories.
We describe our community as “conveniently located in the middle of nowhere”. We used to have a flashing traffic light, but the state removed it since it was a waste of electricity. We are at least 20 miles in any direction to the nearest incorporated area. So “going to town” means a 30 drive. We have a gas station AND a Dollar General.
They removed our traffic light because people kept shooting it out.
The town I grew up in was so small we didn't have a stop sign until I was in college. The bank only had one cashier until it closed years ago.
We had a flashing red light at one intersection - that was fancy. I can also recalled three stop signs, and not even on the road. But we lived a few miles from a 'big town', with at least 3,000 people, a movie theater, and a high school. I thought my cousin, who lived out in the country in Arkansas, was a bit of a hick, since we also could get 3 TV stations, and two of them without going outside to turn the antenna pole.
We had a stop sign, but after a winning game night at the high school (which was two towns over) the basket ball players would come and dig it up and leave it somewhere entertaining. Till the county put it on 10ft pole and cemented it into the ground leaving only about 5 feet visible. They stopped stealing it after that.
The parish I was born in has only ONE town with working traffic lights - and it has TWO! 😆😆😆
It’s really hard on locals for the highway department to add a stop sign where there’s never been one.
@@jhwilliams6550 Not sure who added the one in my town but the most memorable thing was that it wasn't new. It was already dented and starting to rust. 🤣
My mom grew up in a "town" in which there was a single flashing caution light on the main drag. During the time she grew up there, that caution light was upgraded to a full traffic signal and a second full signal was added.
This sounds very much like an area I’m trying to move to. Well kinda It would be a little bit of a drive to get to this town
We had one stoplight in the entire COUNTY until recently. And it wasn't even in the Town! Now we have like 4 and measure distance by Dollar Generals.
Haha must be the same town I grew up in and the city 12 miles away had the McDonalds and big grocery store. If we behaved while Mom was getting groceries we got a happy meal with an orange pop!
Sounds like where my aunt used to live when we'd go a visit. Miss that place!
I haven't lived in the south for 52 years - and yet your humor is knee slappin' sweet. Thanks.
Trying to explain the concept of putting on your shoes because you were going to town to a old person from New Jersey is one of the harder things I've had to explain in my life.
I am English and have never had the slightest desire to ever cross the Pond. But with It’s a Southern Thing, the Southern Women Channel and your spin-off, I would really like to experience the South for myself before I peg out.
You’d love us down here. We’re friendly and sometimes funny. We eat good and we share what we have. We’re polite and expect others to be too. You won’t have a problem without at least half a dozen people trying to help you solve it. Especially when they realize you’re visiting and have no friends or family nearby. You should come! But not in the summer unless you can stand 100 degree Fahrenheit. Try spring or fall.❤️🤗🐝
@@deborahdanhauer8525 Thank you Deborah, that’s exactly how I was raised, what we’ve tried to pass on to our kids, and why I believe we would get on famously.
@@Canalcoholic I’m certain we would too. I hope you get to travel across the pond someday soon.❤️🤗🐝
You won’t be disappointed.
It's not all sweetness and light. The big cities are full of foreigners (yankees) who move down here to escape from New York, then try to turn us in to New York. Small towns and rural areas are wonderful. You can have a great conversation with a total stranger at a gas pump or in a check out lane,etc. But there are always a few folks that you'd just as soon not interact with. Look for smiles and you'll do ok.
those really old gas stations/grocery/bait and tackle all in one stores are almost impossible to find now. the old tongue and groove wooden floors are dead giveaways, and usually a couple of rockin chairs out front or right inside the store. i have found fishing tackle that was 50 years old, still on racks and had the old price tags on them, lots of stuff that don't even make anymore and haven't in 40 years or more. those places are a gold mine for neat stuff
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AND if you're far enough out there; there's a 50/50 chance that they sell Hunts Brothers pizza.
Hunt's Brothers is the sneaky little brother of DG
I feel hurt and a little called out.
You got Hunt Brothers? The local gas station here it's just unbranded pizza.
@@mikethomas5276 just wait. In a couple years HB will get wind of their existence and sweep in
Lol, just picked up two loaded…
When I was a kid (1976 for a specific year for the purpose of this reply), I grew up in Kentucky, down near the border with Tennessee. It was Kind of Between Somerset and Monticello. They called it Betsey, and it was an unincorporated location (not big enough to be a Town). There were 4 Baptist churches and one other building that was a gas station/post office/general store (but NOT a DG), and a bar. Spent a year and a half there with my grandparents. Good times, except for all the copperheads and cottonmouths...and that one bear that used to habitually raid my grandma's garden.
Round these parts we have Over Yonder, which is both a designation of location and a unit of distance.
I have been looking for this classification. Thanks for adding it. My mom's family is from Arkansas and they still ask (in some places) if you want a poke for your purchase.....most people call it a bag now. Comes from 'pig in a poke'.
Grew up an "in-betweener". No one knew where it was, but we somehow managed to have a two-house movie theater (which was very tiny). Other than church, it was the only thing to do if you weren't 18 (there was a pool hall, too) until a few years before we moved, when someone opened a small "strip mall" with a grocery store as the anchor store. The *best* place, though, was a big store that was probably around 100 years old (I'm not kidding) that kept expanding as time went on. It was the OG Walmart, but better. You could get all your home and farm needs, from nails and barbed wire to bolts of cloth and sewing machines. In the back there was a burger and soda counter where you could sit and watch them make what people now call smash burgers, homemade fries, and then pull a Coke the old fashioned way. Still the best "combo meal" I've ever had.
I thought that the city my cousin lived in was a city (Brooksville, FL). However I looked it up and it only has three DG's. I can't wait to tell her.
Damn, between them and Family Dollar, i pass 4 of those companies stores on my 10 minute drive to work. (DG across the street from my grocery store i work at, and right next door to them a Family Dollar, at least the other 2 i pass had the decency to be half a mile apart from each other)
I was in South Dakota visiting in-laws. They had 2 bars, a grocery store, post office, and a gas station. There was a stop sign at an intersection and that's it.
As a new resident of the city of Atlanta, I resent this sentiment. I moved here a year ago and I was thrilled with my new job and place. Now I’ve been stuck in traffic ever since I left my new place for work the first day, but I swear when I get home from work in about six months, I’m going to be soaking it all in brother. There are so many things to do in Atlanta wherever you are. My neighborhood watering hole is only a 2-3 week drive away if you leave in the middle of the night on a Monday. Otherwise it’s only about a five minutes walk, but you have to budget an hour or two for a couple life or death struggles with the people holding signs in all the intersections, because they think you’re moving in on their territory. Also gotta budget time to hide from the roaming bands of petty smash and grab criminals breaking out the windows of any parked cars or abandoned vehicles in the road. You just can’t beat the convenience of the city! So you laugh it up while I live it up.
I'm not in Atlanta but I live in exurbs in the Metro Atlanta. I move here and I must say this town I am in I swear it would be classified as a rural town
Lol, pretty much. Atlanta. The Southern NY.
I just aint built for city life.
@@1985toyotacamry Yeah, I'm out northwest of the city and we have as many horse farms out here as we do subdivisions.
@@nothanks3236 southeast of Atlanta in Henry County.
Nailed it. Between Shreveport and Dallas has always been how i start out with describing where i grew up. 😂
I know where that is!
We lived in Kilgore TX. We told everyone that we lived 2 hours east of Dallas, 3 hours north of Houston, and 45 minutes from Shreveport.
I live in a small town in Ohio that we have to describe as "East Of", as in it's East Of the biggest town 8 miles away. We have one gas station, a Dollar General, a local grocery store, Pizza place, a Subway and a McDonalds, that's it. when we moved here the grocery store and gas station where the only places in town.
Lived on the border of Beat 14 in Elmore County years ago...gotta say you pretty much nailed it! (Heading for Witness Protection Program in 3...2...1...) "I gotta move to Atlanta. Ya know what? I'd actually rather die." I about died!!! xD
You forgot "Gone with the Wind" cities like Savannah and Charleston, where the residents who live there act like they are in the "big city" even though they are just big towns but 200 years ago they were big cities and now they are giant tourist traps where everything is significantly more expensive in the downtown area than anywhere else in the city. The locals will often dress in comically out of date clothing at weekend social events and the women all seem to want to see who can wear the biggest hat.
Charleston will have over a million people in it's metropolitan area within ten years. That's more than a big town. Savannah is smaller, but it has close to 450 thousand in it's metro area and will likely eclipse the half million mark within the next ten years.
@@willp.8120 - No, Charleston is not a city. It is a big town. I lived there for a long time before moving two years ago, and I always said that "for being a big town, Charleston sure thinks it's a city!"
It does have the traffic problems of a city, due to it's inconveniently situated bridges and rivers. Spending an hour and a half sometimes to get from exit 205 to exit 212 in the mornings was fun. It was worse when I worked downtown and had to go all the way down to the crosstown. It wasn't much better living off Chisholm on Johns Island having to go down Savannah Highway to Main Rd after work, which would be backed up for miles from the light because it's one of only two bridges onto the island. But at least I had a DG within a mile of the house ;)
@@Max_Griswald It's a small mid sized city. The population growth there over the past fifteen years has been high.
And there’s a 75% chance everyone you encounter moved there from Ohio.
Peter Griffin would love taking a vacation there.
"I'd rather die" gave me a big ol' belly laugh. Thanks for that, Matt!
Hey from Centreville! Also, don't forget that down here we measure distance in time, not miles. "Go up 5 for about 30 minutes then take a left on the gravel road that y's off of it". I have no idea how many miles that is, but those directions won't get me lost.
Sadly, Starkville truly is now big enough to cross over into cityhood on gamedays.
Matt, you are hilarious! Thank you so much for making us laugh!
Matt, do the great Southern Syllable Shift. In 1st grade (in the city) I missed this question: How many syllables in “door?” I said 2, ‘cause my family said “DOE ERR”
My name is Joe and my sister says it has 3 syllables.
Rurnt....now see if y'all can git it🤭
I was 12 before I realized some people actually talk like the actors on tv.
Yeah I was 22 when I moved from a LUD no stop sign "town" to Miami...talk about cultural shock!! There I found out BREAD 🍞 is 1 syllable 😆
@@KathySwampQueen In Texas "bread" was always two syllables!
I lived with my sister in Trust, North Carolina. 40 miles from Asheville by crow flies, 5,930 miles by road over a 3700 foot mountain gap. A place where they do not waste curve signs as the only place where there are curve signs is where the road makes more than a 180 degree curve!
Trust.
population?
TWO people.
Sister and I.
She could pick up NO tv stations.
Kate Winslet holding on to Leonardo Decaprio in the pothole is priceless! The "scools" award is also spot on.
There is a place I know of that's so far out in the sticks that they have a general store that carries everything which isn't uncommon for places like this one. What makes it unique is that it's in a particular location which, if it rains too hard, they have rain days for schools. You know, like snow days. Rivers pop up out of nowhere and some people have to use boats to leave their houses. 😳😅
Well, we did have a rain day when i was in middle school. Our school was next to the river and the first floor got flooded.
What state is this? Sounds like either Louisiana or Florida to me.
@@ronnycollins9125 North Carolina 😁
I knew a kid in high school who would drive 15 minutes to get to a dirt road where he could catch the school bus at 5:30 AM, and the bus wouldn't get to school until 7:30. (north AR)
As a student in Starkville, Matt is 100% right 😂
The gas station food in the middle of nowhere is sooooo good! 😊
Facts.
That is where every one comes to eat dinner. That's lunch for some folks. Has to be good or they would be run off.
As someone who lived in Cleburne County for most of my life this is spot on. Also I would rather die than live in Atlanta.
Agreed.
I would rather die that live in any city. I aint built for it.
Like Starkville, but only on game day! I hollered
I love this content. As a now 7-month resident of Alabama, I appreciate this very much!!
Still there? (native and lifelong Arkansan, I can't imagine living anywhere else)
@@markloveless1001 Yes. Absolutely LOVE this state & so delighted that we moved!!
We had a Beat 4. Also pretty sure that's the first time I've heard Starkville called big city
Whenever someone asks in-person where I'm from, I always answer with "I'm from out of town"
My mom grew up in Cleburne County. Where she lived is a gas station location that was owned by her uncle.
IMHO: you missed the "county line liquor store" town. In northern Alabama way up near sand mountain you will find a few 'dry' counties. So right on the border with a wet county there will be a small cluster of buildings that mostly sell beer...and fireworks...and breakfast...or rent VCR tapes (way back in the sticks)....County line liquor store towns will be adding a Dollar General now that they sell liquor.
I’m pretty sure I grew up in the wettest dry county in AL! 🤣🤣🤣. And you knew what part of the woods to stay out of on Sand Mountain!!!
You know that's been renamed Meth Mountain, right? 😂
Ironically enough, up until a few years ago, the county he mentioned had two “last chance” stores a few miles from each other….they could be “first chance” as well, depending on which way you were going.
The county sold beer, but only hot, and you didn’t want to get caught with any cold beer.
Sounds a lot like the fireworks stores at the NC/SC county line. I remember when those had billboards for miles along the two-lane roads into NC ... or maybe that was just South Of The Border that had them, but they had enough for everyone.
Growing up our biggest town had right around 2,000 people and no one had heard of it. I lived about 30 minutes from that. So I just got used to saying the county I was from, which no one had heard of either. Eventually I just started saying the name of a town people had actually heard of in a neighboring county.
Yep. Same.
Yep, I went through it all in the Army. Plus, when they'd say name the closest big town. It was in another state, which added to the confusion!
Yup. I had the extra fun that the town shared a name with a big city entirely on the other side of the state (we are Town, they are basically New Town), so people thought they had heard of it and were entirely wrong.
@Brooks Moses Oh, NC has a couple of those, too. Towns that share the names of counties on the other end of the state. 😆
@@henryturnerjr3857 : Hah, indeed! My dad was from Goldston, which is nowhere near Goldsboro.
Yes! “Only on Saturdays”. As an MSU fan, I can confirm. The traffic is awful on the way to campus.
That's the one that really cracked me up. "and Starkville" (say what?) "on game day" Ahhhhhh, absolutely
The place where I live has got a Walmart but only 3 Dollar Generals... in the city limits. There's two more on the outskirts, about 6 miles out of town, so it's hard to tell if they count or not.
I grew up in a "community" that was so small that the U.S. Postal Service took our post office away. Also, there is a town in Georgia called, "Between", located approximately 45 minutes east of Atlanta.
Is in pass Covington going east on I-20?
I just qualified my town as an actual town (in spite of the fact that "go to town" means go to the next town over) because we do have a post office, not just a DG.
And we have TWO traffic lights.
@@1985toyotacamry Almost due north of Covington, "between" Loganville and Monroe on US78
@@1985toyotacamry Growing up we went to town by going to either Athens, GA (greatest college town on planet earth) or Anderson, SC. Just outside of Anderson, SC is "Sixty-Nine", when you are there you know you're in position! 😃
I live in a place that used to be "Town" and it's now "City" but is SUDDENLY a preferred suburb of a "Big City" and I can tell you going from "Mill Town" to "City" was stressful enough for the locals. "Fancy Suburb" isn't working well
My parents moved into a caution-light "town" like that and left just two years later, cause they were looking for a small town... they put in a Walmart, 7/11 and started an apartment building just in that time. (Guess what state? 🤠) The plus side was they got a good return on their house... and now they live in a "kinda between", peacefully :)
Same here, in Florida. Finally getting away from our small unincorporated paradise turned big city nightmare, & moving away soon😂
Ok, I'm very confused. I grew up in the farming community outliers of an "incorporated town " that had an official post office, a kindergarten only school (you got shipped to the town with a stoplight for the rest of elementary), but no gas station. We had an historic site and a honey farm/fast food grill that was open seasonally across from the historic monument and museum site. Total population under 1000. The post office was a single wide and the postmistress/delivery driver drove her own Oldsmobile on rounds. The school bus was Bus 8 and we drove over a wooden bridge with missing planks and railroad tracks twice a day. What category were we?
ETA: this was mid 70s, early 80s. Yeah I'm old.
2nd edit: the honey farm/fast food grill also sold fireworks.
Move to Atlanta??!!!!
Ah, there it is. For a moment, I thought Mat had gone insane...what a relief.
LMAO! Love this! I grew up in Forest Park, GA. When I was a kid that was on the southern edge of the Atlanta suburbs. My parents moved out there from the city to build their American Dream three bedroom ranch on a quarter acre lot. You could always tell the old families from the new because they were "from Forest Park... Morrow...Jonesboro," and the new families were still "from Atlanta," even if we were all the way outside the Perimeter, which was "way out there" to people still living "in town."
I think my town is either "LUD" or "kinda between". We do briefly intersect a state highway, but unless you're actually from the other side of the highway, you've probably forgotten that there's any of the town on the other side of the highway, and when telling people where I'm from, I usually say "half an hour east of" a city that is in the next state over.
The closest to where I grew up, and still live, is a "gas station town". However I guess it's a fancy "gas station town" because we are the first town next to a dry county. Growing up there was one gas station, 2 liquor sores, and 3 bars in town. THAT WAS LITERALLY IT.
Apparently the town I grew up in was like that back in the day, with the extra fun that the next town over was a college town. So all the students from the college town would ride over the mountain to let loose. (The college was none too happy about this.) But then the town pretty much entirely burned down in 1906, and never regained its bars or reputation.
Live between reminds me when I chased pipelines and a lot of XRay crews came from Jenks Oklahoma. Or around there. They would tell you some little obscure place referenced being between two equally obscure places and then those being referenced to Jenks. Sitting in the middle of the valley near Bakersfield talking to someone trying to tell you where they are from and they never hitting on the fact they were 18 miles from Tulsa. A city you MAY have heard of.
I am so glad to hear you explain about Beats. My husband's family is from Beat 8 in Barbour County. I had never heard anyone but him talk about Beats.
Hearing someone say they’d rather die than move to Atlanta is one of the most factual statements I’ve ever heard!!! Hahaha.
I still have PTSD from the traffic just from visiting 🤦🏼♀️
As a truck driver I gotta drive through that god forsaken place 4 times a week. I’ll never understand why I’m the hell they couldn’t put the warehouse on the west end
Lotta similarities between the south and South Dakota. Some coastal snob tried to insult my small LUD town with the term "flyover country" and she was given a "bless your heart" by my neighbors, followed by a polite invitation to leave by giving her directions to the interstate... which was 40 miles away.
Related story: when I was a kid in Alaska, we lived in a town on the road system (most places aren't) near an intersection, which meant a steady stream of tourists in the summer. Most of them were okay, but some could be aggressive or just annoying. One of the guys that worked at the gas station had a solution for the latter category. If they stopped in to ask directions to larger "destination" places, he'd say, "Go up about a mile and a half to the intersection and turn left (or right, depending). It's your first light." To the left, that light was about 250 miles. To the right, that light was about 150 miles.
The ol' "y'all drive safe back home now" line.
Seeing the riding mower on the streets reminds me of the old alcoholic guy that would ride through the neighborhood, up a path and park behind the hardware store, cut through the store to get his beer at the grocery store next door. They took his drivers license years ago but somehow he was allowed to drive his mower as long as he stayed on residential streets.
I am a born & raised Minnesotan still living in Minnesota. I grew up in a Rural Area technically between 2 Small-ish Towns. My High School graduating class was maybe 300 students.
We also had Wood Shop, Welding/Metalworking Class, and Electrical Class as options. In fact if you where skilled at Welding and took all 4 levels of Welding Classes, the teacher could connect you to the Trade Union responsible for Professional Welders & get you certified as an Apprentice Welder that started out in that Career after graduation.
The school also allowed students who Hunted & Fished if they weren't Troublemakers/Dangerous to park their cars on School property in a specific Parking Lot area WITH THEIR HUNTING & FISHING GEAR LOCKED IN THE CAR!
Ok, pretty weird that there is a Highway 13 in Delmar in both Delaware and Alabama. I grew up near the Delaware one.
This is oh so true.
"Starkville on game day"
LOL, I felt that. Didn't expect it from somebody in Alabama though!
Matt, you should make a video about navigation language. Yonder. A fer piece. Whar Jake’s barn usta be. Twar town. Etc.
I live in the Atlanta area and have for about 46 years, and I enjoy it. The quality of life varies, but in some areas of the metro area, like Forsyth County, Cherokee County, East Cobb County, parts of North Fulton, Coweta County, and Peachtree City, the quality of life is excellent. Sure, there's some traffic, but it's nowhere the worst you'll find in the metropolitan area.
Hey Matt - Thanks for highlighting Buffalo, Texas which, despite being a town, considers itself a city. This is not to be confused with Buffalo Gap, Texas which is a LUD. Dime Box, Texas imagines itself to be a town. However, Old Dime Box is NOT the same place - it’s barely a concept. It is on most maps. Fights get started around there when a stranger confuses one with the other in a casual conversation…or when asking for directions.
I love the song "Way out here" by Josh Thompson. Pretty much sums up our way of thinking and doing. And of course "A Country Boy Can Survive" by the great Hank Williams Jr!
Where I live has 1 stop sign when you get to the highway, one church and the Main road is only paved for the first mile. We are 15 min. from the closest Dollar General and school. Gotta love southeast Oklahoma.
As someone who lives outside of 285 from Atlanta, I agree with you about rather dying.😅
I used to live in a town before Wal-Mart came in, destroyed our small town businesses, and we became "The City."
OMGoodness, Lordy Mercy! I had NOT ever thought about this but it is sooo freakin' true, lol lol! We have our very own locator language in the South 🙂
One of your funniest videos. Don’t know how you keep coming up with new ones
Pretty accurate however you forgot to mention the home grown liquor store on the back of Connies (ours is called Wilbur or the corner store) 😅
Some of these can be found anywhere in the country as long as it's rural, but I suppose they're thought of as specific to the south because there's far more rural places in the south.
I work in a " town " on the side of the highway that's nothing but 6 gas stations, 6 fast food restaurants, 1 small neighborhood, and a trailer park.
It's very odd to have way more of certain things than some towns 3x the size but far less of the things that make a town.
As a Scotsman living in England, I have trouble explaining where I'm from, since even people in Scotland have never heard of it. There are so many little places, that you have to describe your location relative to larger nearby ones.
Usually I just say "it's outside Edinburgh" or "near Edinburgh" or "between Edinburgh and Glasgow". If I'm talking to a fellow Scot, I'll try "have you heard of Livingston? With The Centre? It's near there." And if I'm feeling whimsical, I'll say "the magical land of West Lothian that no one has ever heard of"
A corner gas station / convenience store near here sells bait, but also you can get licenses there, and I'm thinking not just fishing or hunting licenses. It made me think of a place that's a combination of city hall and bait shop and whether that would be "kind of between" or an actual "town".
What about "Over yonder"?
I have a friend who I've been picking up and taking to church for months. He had to move back in with his mom in a nearby area. When I asked where he was moving he told me his mother wouldn't let him tell anybody where they live. If anybody shows up, she'll shoot them. I'm not taking him to church anymore, needless to say.
Keep up the good work. You make the best videos.
I grew up in Detroit, and I can't believe that you had a photo of a Faygo pop machine! Nice!
“I better move to Atlanta. Actually I would rather die.” Exactly how I feel! And I live in Georgia-just thankfully not Atlanta!!!!
I will say too that I was at my daughters house and her friend came over. We asked where their farm was and she said Sardis (GA). I was like “oh my gosh, my dad‘s family is from Sardis.“ So the friend and I started talking, much to the amusement and bewilderment of my daughter, about Sardis, and how it still only has one red light, a Dollar, General, and a police department with only three police officers. Most people don’t understand this, but obviously Matt does.
That sounds like the town in south Georgia which is the county seat!!!!
My dad lived ‘way out there.’ This is ridiculously on-point.
Found out that my LUD is now a gas station town in the last couple years. We love you, DG
Lol, we've a gas station town, and the gas station is also the deli/mini supermarket store. And they own the other one across and down the road just a bit; it has a bigger lot for trucks to go to.
And we live in the "inbetween", aka an unincorporated area.
I’ve watched several of your videos and they’re funny. However, this one made me want to subscribe. Happy to be a new subscriber to your channel. Keep up the good work! 😃👍
our nearest gas station was a house someone turned into a convenience store and stuck two pumps out in the front yard.
That Starkville reference killed me. It's so true
Matt you have to do directions next so we know how to get around these places.
I always mix up my "down a pieces" with my "up yonders". And then there's when ya get into the city, how to navigate by churches versus by Walgreenses. Can't forget that.
You know, I live in a small town in Wisconsin in the more I'm watching your videos the more I'm realizing I have found the south of the North
As someone who lives somewhere in between I can confirm the gas station has a giant murder hole in the parking lot
Just saw you on a few commercials!!!! Congratulations on all your new endeavors!!!
This is LITERALLY spot on. I’m from way out there. No cell service & no internet