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Originally Posted by destinyscallingyou
LOL! It was like that back in 88 when I moved there! too funny! prob the same people I went to school with that were druggies then, are running it now... i heard alot of retirees love it there... sure, all they need is their cute little manicured yard on the golf course, walmart/ walgreens, and a few places to go out to eat on the weekends. it's SUPER boring for all the poor kids that live there... only thing to do is get high and drunk which they do around bon fires in the woods to hide from the sheriff's...  then they all sleep around with each other... how nice... |
Just chiming in with a few comments about kids being bored in small towns...
My first thought is that things never change, no matter what generation we're talking about. I grew up in far north Jersey on 14 acres of wooded land with a fishing lake. It was paradise to me. When I got to high school, I met some kids whose parents had just moved them to the country from New York (City). They were all bored out of their skulls; I couldn't understand it. See, I had a real childhood, not like these kids today. I rode my bicycle through the woods (with no fears of stalkers), watched tv, read books, studied the night sky, fished, blazed trails through the woods to favorite spots. During all those summers, I never saw one other kid other than cousins who'd come up to visit from town. We'd say goodbye to most of our classmates in June, never to see them again until after Labor Day. I'd see a couple of them in church on Sunday. A few of us wrote letters to each other. Remember that? Handwriting, stationery -- all that good stuff. We didn't have mindless texting back then. With all of today's technology, you'd think all these kids would be rocket scientists. Instead, they've turned into uncaring robots, subject to any influence.
So they're bored. It's the parents who haven't raised them to appreciate anything but the seedy side of life. It's really a shame. They don't like looking at trees and the Rocky Mountains and breathing clean air, but trashing their brains on meth and all the other poisons is fun and cool, eh?
I live in a small town here in Colorado, and I see this stuff going on. The kids here walk around like zombies, having no idea what's going on beyond the boundaries of their losing existence. Too bad. And this is what we pay school taxes for??
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