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Originally Posted by bawac34618
Unless they are illegal immigrants, why are urban Americans any less "real Americans" than people who live in the boonies? It's a fact that urban residents for the most part hold to different ideologies than do people in rural areas. However, we are ALL Americans, whether you live in Brooklyn, NY or Gene Autry, Oklahoma. Why is it the rural areas think they get to decide for everyone what real "American values" are about? Urban dwellers are Americans as well. I would go even farther and say that Harvard is just as much an American university as Liberty University is. America is Silicon Valley just as much as it is wheat farms, assembly lines, and coal mines.
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Same question applies to cityiots.
Why do you think you're the real Americans?
I've lived in a city, I've lived in suburbs, I've lived in a town of 1200 off an old dirt road.
What works for city's, does not work in rural areas and vice versa.
Difference is, rural Americans don't go to cities and expect the cities to reverse their way of life, regardless of party affiliation.
Show me where a farmer tore a sky scraper down to build a farm.
Or some rural person buying up vacant properties to turn into a stock car or 1/4 mile track, or mud pit for their lifted truck, or trails for snowmobiles quads dirtbikes.
You cant.
I can show you where there used to be farms and are now weekend and summer homes for cityiots who ran for town board, got on, and changed everything. Putting in place BS noise ordinances that restricted hunting, got us pulled over for having glasspacks straight pipes on our trucks, and open baffles on Harleys to terrify deer from running in front of us. Farms being bought subdivided and if you went near there on the trails that lead up into the mountains the cops were called. Wah boo hoo we didn't come up here to listen to that racket. Yeah? Then why didn't you leave the subwoofers that thump and rattle windows back in the city? Or that annoying car alarm (you know exactly which one it is) that goes off all hours of the night?
How come you need 12 spot lights on motion detectors on the outside of your house? To give us something to shoot out with BB guns when it's 2 am and the lights are waking us up when we have to be up at 5 for work?
Why are you terrified of a twig snapping or coyotes howling?
Why does my car insurance have to go up? Oh that's right, because you non driving cityiots with whisper quiet luxury sedans and suvs restricted our hunting causing the deer population to explode, nailed Bambi every friday-Sunday.
Rural folk stick to themselves and don't dictate to others. You don't see them go to cities and demand change, riot, we live and let live...
It's like where I currently live in Florida. They call it a city. It is not a city. This area is a tropical Poughkeepsie. You don't see me screaming at the mayor and town board to let me have a shooting range for pistols in my back yard. Instead of getting upset about it, or stomp my feet and demand and expect things to change, I am saving money to buy property in Okeechobee or Ocala to have a shooting range AND have land to ride my quads and dirtbikes...
50-200 acres would be great.
It's when the holier than thou I know what's best for the world and Im from (insert city here) attitude comes out that gets us "rednecks" "hicks" "hillbillies" upset.
On occasion I'll bump into a North eastern liberal. Hear them complain about guns, trucks, this that and the other.... well 95 is that way, head north for about 20 hours. Say what you want about Florida and the south. I don't know too many who aspire to retire in NY MA CT VT ME NH.
Sure like to come down and take advantage of no income taxes and lower cost of living that can't be found in any north east city... can leave the politics and way of life you're used to back there. No wonder native Floridians Hate people from the north east.
They did the same to my town as they try to do down here. So far they've succeeded making this states economy based off Tropicana Disney and 55+ HOAs.
I feel bad for the kids... they'll likely get stuck making 8-10 bucks in customer service or tourism based job reliant on them instead of the opportunities that I had in NY... when you've built on every square inch and used up all the land, don't complain how great things used to be. You could have put your foot down and spoke up on local elections... they get excited over a grocery store or gas station going up for the jobs... lol oh boy just what they need, more minimum wage talentless jobs... get some manufacturing and some tech companies down here.
This state has schools that graduate engineers... sadly they tend to go north and west due to no jobs. I'd rally to change that. Couple 18-32 per hour to start careers with proficient skills in a state with a low cost of living... vet out the numbskulls who want, no,
expect to be catered to.
We have more fun than you any day of the week.
Nightclubs are boring.
Can't snowboard in a city.
Can't fly through a trail and launch off a triple on a KX250.
No winding roads with scenic views for a Harley.
No frozen lakes to blast across on a snowmobile.
Congested traffic flows.
Having to rely on public transportation to get you from A to B on time...
We can go in our back yards pluck our food from the ground or shoot it and dress it season it.
We're self sufficient and reliant upon ourselves or close knit group of friends without having to hire out a big company to come put a well pump in, a roof on, a septic system in, to fix our boilers and heat or air conditioning when it goes down. When we're a half hour to hour away from the nearest servicing company in those industries.
Like I said. Different way of life, and until you've lived it, you can't judge it. You have no idea how fun it is. Freedom to do whatever you want, however you want, and nobody get their panties in a wad and judge you because of it. It's not for everyone though... if you're accustomed to being catered to, and having a 5 minute walk to get groceries, a hair cut, a doctor's office you won't like a half hour ride to Wal-Mart on Sunday to get all your household needs, then go another 10 minutes to the grocery store. Or drive an hour or more to get to a mall. Half hour to a hospital 15-20 minutes to the local doctors office depending if you need pediatric specific or 18+.
You'll really be angry that planned parenthood is 45 minutes away...
No street lights so when the sun goes down, and there's no full moon it's dark. Black. No traffic lights just faded out stop signs. Dirt roads. Like I said it's not for everyone.
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