<p>I am a freshman at UA. I’ve been here for a week and a day already, and everyone that I’ve talked to and introduced myself as a North Carolinian has been super nice, and actually interested in hearing about where I’m from. It is a very friendly atmosphere, for all students, and I would recommend it to anyone! That’s the whole reason I came here in the first place, because it is such an amazingly awesome place!! :)</p>
<p>*Haha, you’re assuming southerners ever leave their home county. *</p>
<p>My H has Midwest relatives that NEVER leave their county. EVER. </p>
<p>My Calif mom had to be dragged tooth and nail to go anywhere. </p>
<p>Anyway…We are obviously from elsewhere, yet we’ve always been treated so nicely here.</p>
<p>I don’t think Midwesterners have a reputation for being cosmopolitan, either, though.</p>
<p>Stereotypes are almost always based on some general trend. Their problem is they are over-simplifications of that trend that are applied over-broadly.</p>
<p>As in every state, city dwellers are very different from those who live in the more rural parts.</p>
<p>City people from all over the country often have more in common with each other than they have with the rural people of their own states. </p>
<p>Bama and T-town are getting more and more infiltrated ( ;)) by non-southerners. There’s so much expansion and rebirth going on. I see that Bruno’s supermarket has been remodeled and is having a grand re-opening. Surely the company saw that T-Town is on the rise and wants to cash-in on it. Bruno’s is open 24 hours (don’t know what it’s hours were before). Nice!</p>
<p>We had dinner at Iguana Grill last night in T-Town. Not a southern accent heard anywhere. Had lunch at DePalma’s - same there. At Sams Club today I only heard one southern accent…from the guy who checks your receipt as you leave. </p>
<p>Having spent 4 of the last 6 weeks in California (3 weeks in Cal, 2 weeks in AL, 1 week in Cal, now back in AL), I can tell you that I don’t see/feel any culture change moving from one to the other.</p>
<p>Brunos has always been 24/7 (only closed on Christmas day if I recall correctly). Though the prices haven’t changed sadly- still pretty over priced on some items compared to target. I usually only use Brunos for the meat and produce selection and buy everything else at target. For example I think the V8 fusion selection at Brunos is something like 3.69 and at target its like 2.98. I also think a large pack of bottled water (Aquafina) is about a dollar cheaper at Target.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>*Brunos has always been 24/7 (only closed on Christmas day if I recall correctly). *</p>
<p>Ahh…the one by us wasn’t open 24/7 - however, it has since closed. It’s nice that the T-town one is.</p>
<p>I agree that its prices might be higher than Target (or Wal-Mart). The one by our home was always a bit more expensive.</p>
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<p>Hey, I don’t remember introducing you guys to my college roommate! :)</p>
<p>whats the weather like there? ive heard about hurricanes??? is that true?</p>
<p>Tuscaloosa is far enough inland from the coast that if a hurricane does come onshore, they will usually just get some heavy rain and some winds (that happens as far inland as TN too.) They can occasionally get tornado warnings too, but the bulk of tornadic activity happens in northern AL.</p>
<p>The weather is awesome in the fall and spring. Bama has fab weather during those months. Sunny blue skies with fluffy white clouds. :)</p>
<p>In the winter, the weather is more mild than the north or Midwest, but there are still some days when the temp drops. Bama has even had some snow, but not much accumulation to speak of. Generally any snow is very light and disappears by noon. It’s more of a novelty because snow is so rare.</p>
<p>Winter can be deceiving if you just look out the window to guess how to dress. The sun can be shining, but the temp is still cold. </p>
<p>Summers are hot (thankfully the students aren’t in school for most of summer). Today it was hot in T-town, but that will soon change as fall comes.</p>
<p>Yes, Bama is too inland to get hurricanes. However, Bama will get rain/wind from any coastal issues. When Bama gets the rare light snow, it’s usually the result of some major snow storm up north and Bama just gets the fringes.</p>
<p>On the news last night Tuscaloosa was the hottest lalce in Alabama as far as heat index-it was 107- everyone says Tuscaloosa is so hot in the summer- not sure why…Luckily only some students are there in the summer-This summer has been the hottest eve in Alabama that I can remember-</p>
<p>I am in Birmingham and when Hurrican Ivan(I think) came thru town our schools closed early- it was terrible…even lost power for a day or 2-</p>
<p>Weird…I was in Tuscaloosa last night until about 9pm. It was hot, but it didn’t seem that hot. Seemed like the mid 90s. I wonder if different parts of T-town were hotter than others. I was mostly in the NE section helping my son with his move in at The Bluff. I was in Calif last week, so he had only moved a few clothes in to last the week. We did the big “move in” this weekend. Those apts are soooo nice!</p>
<p>It’s definitely been the hottest summer I can remember for a while. Fortysomething consecutive says where the temperature was already 90 or above by noon.</p>
<p>Tuscaloosa is usually just a few degrees warmer than Nashville so without checking my facts, I’m going to have to say that the summer of 2007 was hotter. Nashville had 30+ days with temperatures over 100. I think this summer has been far more humid though. I have no trouble dealing with the heat; the humidity though, yuck!</p>
<p>Thankfully, the worst will be over soon!</p>
<p>Generally, how cold does it get in the winter and how long does the cold weather last? Does it get cold enough to wear real winter clothes (jackets, sweaters, scarves), or would that be an unusually cold day?</p>
<p>While the warm weather is definitely a draw to the south for me and I’m sick of having five months of snow, I don’t know how I’d feel about giving up cold weather entirely.</p>
<p>Yes, kids do wear jackets in the winter (not heavy winter coats like what you may be used to). Girls wear scarves- they’re great when cold wind is blowing.</p>
<p>However, the winter gear isn’t like what northerners or mid-westerners wear. The winters are considered mild, but there will be days when the daytime temp will be low. </p>
<p>As winters go, Bama would be considered “mild” - but again, that doesn’t mean that there won’t be a few low temp days. </p>
<p>I grew up in Southern Calif, yet even there the winter temp will drop a few days a year. </p>
<p>As for snow…T-town rarely gets any snow. The last 2 -3 years, Bama got a couple of days of light dusting of snow that was gone by afternoon. Not at all like the Midwest or Northeast.</p>
<p>Oh, I did I forget about the August '07 heat wave/drought, didn’t I?</p>
<p>Winters are very cold for me, but I have a low tolerance for the cold. I usually have to bust our my thermal undershirts and dress in layers during the deepest, darkest recess of winter in January.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>LOL </p>
<p>This is coming from a T-town local. If he ever stayed in the NE or the Midwest in the winter when the windchill factor can make the temp feel well below zero for days, he’d really feel very cold. I was in Chicago during one Christmas and it was negative 40. Now that is cold. Your car won’t start. Your skin is vulnerable for freezing. I had just flown in from LA where the temp was 42 degrees and that seemed very cold to me. I didn’t have the right kind of clothing for Chicago kind of cold.</p>
<p>But feeno is right. Winters are cold and there can be some really cold days. Jackets are a must, layers are needed, and sometimes a hat & gloves are needed. However, it’s all relative. It’s nothing like the NE or Midwest.</p>
<p>And (correct me if I’m wrong!) the past 2 Capstone Honors Days in January have highlighted the coldest weather in T-Town; the 2009 we were there for our 1st visit & it was below 30 (Nashville canceled school because it was -2 that morning) and in 2010 wasn’t that the weekend it got (the dusting of) snow?</p>
<p>You won’t need a down parka, but a North Face or wool jacket should suffice.</p>