Moving from the NYC suburbs to the South has been rough.

Yes, there is pizza down here. Yes, some of it is tolerable. Some of it is actually pretty decent. None of it is great. The fancier pizza, the flatbread with unusual toppings found at small french places, is a safer bet than the hole-in-the-wall pizza. Those places advertise "NY Pizza" and often go as far as to name themselves things like "I Heart Manhattan Pizza" but they're almost always crap. I've found one tolerable place like that and one good one. The rest are inedible. Such a change from having a good pizza place on every corner.

Don't even get me started on Italian food. I'm actually not 100% certain I can tell you where an Italian restaurant is, let alone a good one. Thai and Indian are harder to find than up north but a much safer bet than Italian - you can find pretty good ones.

On the plus side, though, you can still find great restaurants. Having so many farms nearby means plenty of incredible vegetables, fresh breads, and outstanding pork. Before coming down here I feared it'd be like parts of CT where your only dining options are chains that microwave their meals (ugh, Applebee's...) Turns out there are a good amount of small restaurants and many are outstanding. Again, the quantity is below the NYC area, it's simply less populated, but so long as you aren't looking for tomato sauce based dishes you can end up extremely happy.