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But it's alright to slander those who live in the city?
How about we all just live where it suits us and not worry about the other guy?
Because we are not good enough unless we want the same things as those telling us what we should want.
Yet some of us don't spend our lives worrying over being good enough, being what someone else wants us to be, or where we are supposed to live.
Just look up the population of counties in the upper midwest. The majority have been draining people for decades. Heck, many reached their peak around WW1 which is crazy if you consider the US population is over 3X as big overall in comparison.
Just one example. It had a population of over 4K people 100 years ago. Now, it's less than 1000.
Yes it has been happening for some time as small family farming gave way to opportunities in the cities. The rural communities are still there. Just as the numbers on a paycheck are not the end all be all nigher is population. That is kind of the point of being rural. One hundred years of draining yet the rural communities are still there.
Dont fret just yet.
Yes it has been happening for some time as small family farming gave way to opportunities in the cities. The rural communities are still there. Just as the numbers on a paycheck are not the end all be all nigher is population. That is kind of the point of being rural. One hundred years of draining yet the rural communities are still there.
Dont fret just yet.
So the question remains, how much should the American taxpayer be subsidizing these hollowing out areas of the country?
Because I don't like elitists looking down on everyone else from their ivory towers and trying to dictate to the rest of us how we should be living our lives. Seems like people have too much time on their hands to worry about how other people are living, it would be much easier if people just managed their own lives instead of trying to manage everyone else's.
Couldn't rep you again, but that was the best post I've read all morning.
These snobby asshats remind me of this song from 30 plus years ago...it's so fitting even now.
So, you've been to school
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinking you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl
Playing ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five-grand stereo
Braggin' that you know
How the nxxxxr's feel cold
And the slum's got so much soul...
Well, if Farmer John expects me to contribute paying for his roads, his electrical distribution net, his phone and Internet, the least he could do is to be passing polite about it. 40% of farm income now comes out of government funds.
And the services and benefits to the unemployed citydwellers? And to their illegal immigrant neighbors? Who feeds them, the Chinese?
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If your impression of San Francisco is only that there's poop on the street, you're seeing such a small part of that picture. That's a bad thing, though it certainly isn't every sidewalk everywhere. But the food, the night life, the variety of things to do and see, it's a wonderful, fun city to visit. Went fishing off the Berkeley pier on a public boat for 80 bucks and came back with about 15 lbs of rock bass filets and a half dozen crabs in a gunny sack. That's some good socialism right there.
I’ve been to SF many times.
A million bucks gets you a 1 bedroom studio while bums roam the streets crapping on the sidewalks and discarding used needles.
Like most of California, a beautiful, once special city ruined by liberals.
I'm not looking down on anyone. It seems like you want to get into an emotional argument when I am presenting facts. We live in a society and a country together. So you are telling me that I shouldn't look out or bother with my fellow Americans. How does society progress in this paradigm that you are presenting? I'm not looking down from an ivory tower, I went through a trade school program myself that has opened up a lot of opportunities. I want Americans of all walks of life to be afforded the same opportunities and have exposure to the opportunities in our changing economy. Again if they want to maintain there way of life that is fine, I just don't want to see this country stagnate and decline due to isolationist policies which will end up hurting the working class.
I agree with what I bolded and I appreciate what you are saying, but where many rural people who are self-supporting get offended, I think, is being told that their way of life is wrong. As long as people are self-supporting and like their life (urban or rural) why should anyone say that they should change it? If someone does not like their parents' way of life or thinks that another way of life might be better, if they are at least close to average intelligence, I am fairly sure that they can figure out what to do all on their own without anyone lecturing them about it.
Nobody makes subway cars in Los Angeles, San Francisco, NYC,....
Pittsburg, CA will only begin later this year, and even the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta ain't exactly city.
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