re: Whats living in the south like compared to somewhere like rural Nebraska?

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The fishing is exponentially better.

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Definitely no "Spring Fever/Cabin Fever" while living in the South. While living in Wisconsin usually around February/Early-March I would start missing being able to fish open water and the fishing season for lakes wouldn't open until May 1st.

Speaking of south Louisiana specifically-We have about a million times more fun than Cornstrokers. We are a hospitality culture. We will wine and dine you and it’s important to us that you have a good time.It’s just a lot more of an emotional life in Louisiana. But Louisiana is wildly different than Mississippi or Alabama ( church lady sweet tea redneckery states) . You are vanilla ice cream and we are gumbo. Vanilla ice cream is a classic- we all like it- but sometimes you just need a little more. Louisiana has a little more.

I've traveled all over the country visiting 43 of the 50 states and 40 of those by car. I've met lots of people along the way.

For the most part people are the same. Most of the mid-westerners I've met, particularly from the rural areas, aren't much different that the southerners I grew up with. Both groups of folks are good salt of the earth people that would do anything for a stranger in need. Heck, we met a guy at a 2 pump gas station in rural Kansas that within 15 min invited us to his "small" 4500 acre ranch to let our, at the time 6 year old kid, help him feed his cows. He's still on our Christmas card list.

Both groups have a strong emphasis on family, community and tradition. Now given the German, Irish and Scandinavian ancestry of the Midwest the traditions are a little different that those of the English/Scotch/Irish that settled much of the south (along with African influences in the south from slaves and former slaves), but they are not THAT different (but I'm mainly of German descent so maybe I'm biased). I'd say the main difference in the areas are dealing with the climatic issues in the local areas

Okey dokey.

If we’re talking Deep South, weather is the obvious one. The landscape is different…more trees in general, denser vegetation, longer growing season, and the farmland supports different crops. Proximity to beaches would be another big difference. Roads are curvier. More towns…the next town is usually only a few minutes away. As someone else stated, even in the middle of nowhere, you’re rarely very far from the necessities. Even if it’s just a gas station or a Dollar General.

Better looking women for sure! I've spent some time up there and it was one of the biggest eye openers for me.

For Louisiana, we only get snow about every 8-10 years... and we have more Hurricanes than Nebraska.

And the big And, we get to see LSU Baseball live as much as we want, Nebraska only gets it once a year hopefully, but that is the best time to watch them live.

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A big difference I’ve noticed between Nebraska and the south is the farms. Nebraska has picture perfect farms with painted barns, older equipment that’s kept in like new conditions, shop yard clean and organized.

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people like to joke about driving through the Midwest but I love driving through hundreds of miles of picture perfect farms

The rural south is great. The people are really nice and friendly. The food is wonderful, lots of barbecue, fried chicken, sweet tea. Winters are much milder than in Nebraska.