bayman/townies
Just Me
was nuts, and kept telling me that I'd get pissed off living there, because
"everyone there is stupid". The whole time I lived in Newfoundland, I loved
it, and could not see why anyone would have anything against the
province/people.
After two years there, I had to move back to the prairies temporarily, and
I find that the people are RUDE (for instance, if you need to change lanes
in traffic, it can take 5 - 10 mins sometimes, NO ONE will let you in here,
I never had a problem with having to wait long in St John's!), our rivers
are brown and smell like dead bodies, and we have no good local music. I'd
probably also kill for a big chunk of salt meat.
When you live in a big city like this all your life, then move to a place
like newfoundland, it's hard to adjust to... walking slower and breathing
clean air and not being as stressed out all the time. Sure, people here
are friendly when you know them, but being around friendly strangers is a
whole other ball game.
Anytime that anyone I knew from home made a snarky comment about my choice
of residence, and every time I hear stuff about it now, I can't help but
relate the whole "Newfoundlanders are all stupid" , or other such comments,
to stuff like the straight-out racism you see on like, Jerry Springer and
stuff. Educated people don't make such stereotyping and discriminating
comments.
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"I'm leaving tomorrow.. so I'll make it through today" - Celtic Connection
"Nicole Davis" <ldnd...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:3A027A50...@sympatico.ca...
> I'm impressed and very pleased you feel the way you do about us Newfies.
> Sometimes we believe that most mainlanders view us has mindless twits. I
> have to say in all fairness we are for the most part paranoid. Except for
a
> few idiots the people I have came across here in Ontario have been very
> respectful and polite. However, I'm in Peterborough and it's pretty much
> like living in the country compared to the big TO.
> As Newfoundlanders we are very hard on ourselves. You see the presure and
> hard work we put ourselves through just to prove we are has good as
others.
> We are afraid of failure and of looking stupid. We continously feel as if
> we have to prove something. Sounds like a bio doesn't it. But it's
> something I noticed when I moved away both in myself and in others as
> well.
> I think you did a good job of describing us bloody newfies.
>
> the_othe...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > As a CFA who lived in a variety of places on the rock (and I'm not done
> > yet, though I am back on the mainland for now) I found people on both
> > sides of the overpass to be much the same - a grand bunch.
> > I suppose, being a farm boy, I am closer to a bayman than a townie, but
> > what the hell, you folks have a real advantage over most over there in
> > that you live in a friendly place, where strangers are by and large
> > welcomed, and where a spirit of fun and foolishness not only survives
> > but thrives.
> > I say, ignore the townie/bayman crap, celebrate who and what you are -
> > a "bunch o bloody Newfs", as they described it to me when I first got
> > there, who turned out to be the finest and friendliest people in the
> > country.
> > And, often, the cleverest buggers I have seen! And yes, that comment
> > is seriously made, in the business world and in the world of music,
> > writing, whateverthehell you want to pick, Newfoundlanders are having
> > quite an impact out there.
> > More than anything I miss the music, have any of the shops got a web
> > site up where I can poke around for CD's of local bands? Nowhere else
> > in the country can you stumble into a pub and find such first class
> > music going down.
> > Nothing comes close.
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
Debbie Rothman
>
>I'm impressed and very pleased you feel the way you do about us Newfies.
>Sometimes we believe that most mainlanders view us has mindless twits. I
>have to say in all fairness we are for the most part paranoid
That "other fellow" isn't the only one who feels that way! He just managed
to put it into words first.
I am glad someone acknowledged the paranoia, though, as I have always been
afraid to mention it. On another forum, I posted what I thought of as a bit of
light humor about the weather, after returning from my first winter trip to
Newfoundland (in January 2000). I called it "I came, I saw, I froze" and it
basically dealt with my experience of four straight days of snow, frozen
windshield wipers, a three-hour trek from Stephenville to Corner Brook at a few
feet per hour, and so on. I received an e-mail from someone I knew personally
and had considered a friend saying that my "love for Newfoundland is very
superficial" if all I can do is criticize the weather. I had previously
thought the weather, since it is no one's fault and since no one pretends that
it is one of the great attractions of Newfoundland, was a safe subject!
Debbie Rothman
Brooklyn, NY
Nicole Davis
guess because there are actually people out there that believe we are covered with
snow and ice just about year round. I guess we don't want people to think we have
terrible weather all the time. It just depends on what part of the province you
visit, and what time of year you visit. There some beautiful days and even weeks.
You can freeze aswell as fry in Corner Brook it just depends on the season.
Newfoundlanders feel its find to criticize their own weather but take offence when
being criticize in any way. A double standard I guess.