re: 29 Things to know about Northwest Arkansas before you move here.

I cringe when I see someone use the term "yankee" and they're being serious. I've been all over the country and served with people from every corner of our nation and you don't have to be "southern" to be gracious. It's 2014 for frick's sake and the North/South mentality people are still holding onto is ridiculous. For the record I couldn't care less about the NWA/Central Arkansas squabble. I'm from the River Valley and we have no allies in the battle of Arkansas. I'm more partial to NWA as a place to raise my family but I certaintly am not offended if somebody feels more at home in another part of the state.

This is a csb side story. My sister has worked in customer service (call center shite) for over a decade and she told me which states had the nicest people and which states had the shittiest. The nicest was Alabama, hands down, not even a contest. The shittiest was New Jersey, no shocker. The shocker was that Oklahoma and Arkansas were the next shitiest. The counties she is assigned are in the central part of the state. Of course that's second hand information but I asked her specifically where in Arkansas and never referenced any NWA/Central Arkansas beef which she is completely oblivious to anyways.