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People with talent/skills/potential leave small towns to go to the big cities asap because that's where the jobs and opportunities are. In the near future(if it isn't right now) the vast majority of small towns in America will only be for the elderly and the no hopers.
I haven't set foot back in LaGrange for longer than two days since I moved away in 2008. I've never looked back and never had a desire to move back to that kind of place. I haven't had contact with the people that I knew for 15+ years since then either, with the exception of my childhood best friend. If he's happy, more power to him, but I always wanted something better for myself than living on a part time minimum wage job supporting a wife and kid, trying to figure out whether to pay the power bill or the rent on the double wide trailer.
Congratulations for getting out of that kind of craziness. I live in Macon and if it weren't for my husband's family being here, I would be gone!
I have seen these mentality in rural areas. I call it the "backwoods" mentality. Red-neck hick, , narrow-minded, racist, bigoted, arch-conservative mentality. These people grow up poor and feel so should everyone else. These people talk about "the good lord" yet hate blacks, Hispanics, other immigrants, gays, atheists, or anybody even the slightest bit different from them yet while claiming to be "Christian." Those that vote, vote strictly based on gun rights. You can find them spending their sunday afternoons watching NASCAR while smoking cigarettes and drinking beer. They sport jean jackets and/or stone-washed jeans while listening to country music or listening to 80's hair bands on cassette tape. Hopefully I'm painting a good picture for all of you.
Imagine the uproar if someone made a generalization that sweeping about inner city blacks/Hispanics/gays/ or any other preferred political class.
It's OK though. The urban elitists write-off rural whites at their own peril. Some of the most clever, business savvy people I have met have lived in rural areas. They just tend not to flaunt it like the City people.
People with talent/skills/potential leave small towns to go to the big cities asap because that's where the jobs and opportunities are.
Yes, and when we retire, we are so sick and tired of the urban landscape -- the noise, crowds, pollution, crime, traffic -- that we move right back to the small towns and countryside!
Imagine the uproar if someone made a generalization that sweeping about inner city blacks/Hispanics/gays/ or any other preferred political class.
It's OK though. The urban elitists write-off rural whites at their own peril. Some of the most clever, business savvy people I have met have lived in rural areas. They just tend not to flaunt it like the City people.
I never said I was an urban elitist, I'm calling it like I see it. Sure there's wealthy people in rural areas, but there's far more of the stereotype I described.
Yes, and when we retire, we are so sick and tired of the urban landscape -- the noise, crowds, pollution, crime, traffic -- that we move right back to the small towns and countryside!
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