"Southern Living"

I love living in the South. Yes, I have lived here my whole life, but the comfort I feel in this region is unexplainable. When I travel outside the south, I do not feel nearly as comfortable. I now live in Atlanta because I love the Georgia Tech campus and the city of Atlanta. There is so much to do in the city making it a desirable place to live. The Atlanta suburbs have grown drastically because of what the city has to offer and the affordable, family-friendly neighborhoods. I spent the first 15 years of my life in the Charlotte area where the southern twang isn't very evident, since Charlotte attracts many types of people. I then moved to Charleston for my last three years of high school and I felt my accent change slightly to more of a twang. Many people who live in the Charleston area have a "suthun accent" and hearing it everyday changed my accent slightly. I have also adjusted to the way many Charlestonians dress, like seersucker shorts/suits, white bucks, and visors. I am sure if I grew up in the north or out west my accent and style of dress would be different.