Some people you might like to follow whose interests dovetail with yours:

@SimonDillon: From Oxford, now lives in SW England. Best movie critic on Medium.

@annforbescooper: Journalist and transplanted Scot in the U.S. Once began a post with something like, "As Norman Mailer once said to me."

@jimwfonseca: Retired geography prof. Writes almost exclusively about interesting places worldwide, including my native NJ.

@Bri_Michele: Young former Alabamian (now a sex-crimes prosecutor in Philly), who would get your jokes about the South.

Sorry, I don't know any Tar Heels or Blue Devils.