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It's no better than DeKalb county. Of course it ain't worse either. We do have a little more white percentage than McNairy County though. Ours is about 96% white,and about 3% hispanic and that leaves about 1% black. Not sayin' anything bad about either county, but DeKalb county is set in it's ways to.Look at a few counties surrounding DeKalb, they are about the same,,Van Buren county has them beat though. I've rode atv's around there, very nice folks you run into in the woods there to.Some say they are rednecks in these parts but I've not had problems with any of them
Middle Tennessee is a large area. I have been through Selmer - not sure if I would call that Mid-Tn, but it is country. What are you looking for? Is it price point first? Country Living?
Well, it's home to many that love it, thats why it don't ''change''. Folks stick around to raise their families same as they were raised,and fight change.
Thats how it should be, if one don't like an area or what kids are allowed to do there, then don't move there.
For your information, I grew up much farther out in the woods than most of the folks in my community. Perhaps it is the outsider that's actually causing the problem, or the family that's run into new money and doesn't know what to do with it. We'll see how you feel when they run through your property shooting at every living thing, spray paint your outbuilding, fire weapons at 2AM next door, fire up a batch of meth twice a week and invite their rowdy friends over, and generally cause problems everywhere they go. No -- I think I'll stay put -- they ugly folks need to leave.
For your information, I grew up much farther out in the woods than most of the folks in my community. Perhaps it is the outsider that's actually causing the problem, or the family that's run into new money and doesn't know what to do with it. We'll see how you feel when they run through your property shooting at every living thing, spray paint your outbuilding, fire weapons at 2AM next door, fire up a batch of meth twice a week and invite their rowdy friends over, and generally cause problems everywhere they go. No -- I think I'll stay put -- they ugly folks need to leave.
I only fired a shotgun up in the air at 2am when my dogs raised heck and I knew it was not a deer or coon they were upset at. By doing so, it let them know whats to be expected if they came past the ''posted'' gate to steal something. We have several atv's in the yard and none have been stolen. A guy up the road had two to get stolen out of a shed and his tractor had the atv's blocked from being able to get out the entrance,, but the guys lifted them over the tractor and out they went with them. He sleeps at night, pays no mind to dogs when they bark,and don't believe in guns. Trash knows who they can monkey with,and who'll put a stop to their bad habbits.
Meth? Yes, at the end of our road in the sticks, some meth heads rented a place and we had traffic in and out the holler at all hours of the night. It didn't take long, and they didn't live there anymore. It was heard said that a couple locals told the land owner that if he didn't send them on their way, that his rent house would no longer be rentable as ashes are hard to rent. For the most part, we don't see trouble in these parts as folks look out for each other, unless a transplant buys land thinking ''live and let live'',,,then they are on their own as they don't get looked out after. Sometimes folks don't stick around to long when locals don't give them the time of day.
It was my teenage kids running chainsaws on our farm cutting cedar posts to sell to make their own spending money, a transplant didn't like the idea of me letting them do that, and they didn't like the idea of them doing like every other farm raised kid in these parts riding atv's under the age of 16. So what? Cops buy their kids atv's in these parts, yes, you'll see cops kids riding 400ex's at age 14. Around here, we let kids do things,, and it don't matter what the transplants think about it.Calling the cops on a 14 year old riding an atv that says 16 or older? What good is that going to do? ''NONE'', as the deputy that comes may have a 14 year old riding a 400ex,,, or a 13 year old riding a Suzuki 700 4x4 on his farm to. Thats the change I'm talking about,,transplants seem to ***** about anything that was not allowed in the state they came from. But,,this ain't the state they came from.. it is a state they came to...and folks don't take kindly to them calling cops thinking a teenager belongs under his or her mothers wing untill they are grown up and out of school. Not,,,,this is our way of living so if they don't like it...so-be-it..
I assume enabling your children to break the law with every step they take is NOT your way of life. However, the subjects of my "rant" are belligerently ignorant rebels, in a place that is too crowded for their bad behavior. Letting the kids do as they want shouldn't include racing ATVs, doing stunts and wheelstands on a public highway in a rural but crowded neighborhood. Letting kids do what they want shouldn't include removing all baffles and catalysts from an exhaust system on their registered street vehicles, so that everyone within 2 miles can hear them racing about the county. It shouldn't include spray painting every man-made object in the right-of-way within 100 square miles. It shouldn't include wheel burnouts all day and night on public roads EVERYWHERE in the county. At this point, one cannot travel through the unincorporated portions of Limestone County/Giles County/Lincoln County portions of Ardmore without seeing tire burn marks all over the road. Is this the behavior you expect from your children?
There's a huge difference between acting up on your own property or in our own immediately community where no one else lives, and acting out in a congested community. Chronic nuisance makers should be held accountable.
I assume enabling your children to break the law with every step they take is NOT your way of life. However, the subjects of my "rant" are belligerently ignorant rebels, in a place that is too crowded for their bad behavior. Letting the kids do as they want shouldn't include racing ATVs, doing stunts and wheelstands on a public highway in a rural but crowded neighborhood. Letting kids do what they want shouldn't include removing all baffles and catalysts from an exhaust system on their registered street vehicles, so that everyone within 2 miles can hear them racing about the county. It shouldn't include spray painting every man-made object in the right-of-way within 100 square miles. It shouldn't include wheel burnouts all day and night on public roads EVERYWHERE in the county. At this point, one cannot travel through the unincorporated portions of Limestone County/Giles County/Lincoln County portions of Ardmore without seeing tire burn marks all over the road. Is this the behavior you expect from your children?
There's a huge difference between acting up on your own property or in our own immediately community where no one else lives, and acting out in a congested community. Chronic nuisance makers should be held accountable.
I agree with your post.Kids here don't really bother others.One guy even built a race track on his farm so the kids could take the single one lane backroads to get to it so they can ride without getting in trouble.Thats not a problem as you'll do well to see 3-5 cars a day on these roads. Heres one of them, about a 16 mile circle of them, houses really spaced out and stop gaps in the roads devide farms.If our kids are working using an atv, or cutting up on an atv, it's not where anyone would be bothered by them. It's just a few non locals that for some reason seem to hate the idea of a kid on an atv.Dunno why really, they may see it childish, I dunno, but the true locals know no different life out here. I'm sure transplants probly liked doing things in the state ( or area ) they came from that we never been exposed to and probly wouldn't enjoy either. But why complain cause they didn't allow their kids on an atv,, or to use a chainsaw? You can fall down a flight of stairs and break bones, or die in a car crash anytime anywhere. It's never totaly safe even if you shelter a kid really.As for being around more crowded area's, your right, we wouldn't let them have their fun in a case like that as we don't believe in bothering others.
In the link below, this is something our kids would not be allowed to do.Dunno where it is, but yes, it would get on my nerves as well if we had to deal with such. I could clearly see someone complaining about this in every right.About a minute or two into the video, they hold up traffic on a one direction three lane road.
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I agree with your post.Kids here don't really bother others.One guy even built a race track on his farm so the kids could take the single one lane backroads to get to it so they can ride without getting in trouble.Thats not a problem as you'll do well to see 3-5 cars a day on these roads. Heres one of them, about a 16 mile circle of them, houses really spaced out and stop gaps in the roads devide farms.If our kids are working using an atv, or cutting up on an atv, it's not where anyone would be bothered by them. It's just a few non locals that for some reason seem to hate the idea of a kid on an atv.Dunno why really, they may see it childish, I dunno, but the true locals know no different life out here. I'm sure transplants probly liked doing things in the state ( or area ) they came from that we never been exposed to and probly wouldn't enjoy either. But why complain cause they didn't allow their kids on an atv,, or to use a chainsaw? You can fall down a flight of stairs and break bones, or die in a car crash anytime anywhere. It's never totaly safe even if you shelter a kid really.As for being around more crowded area's, your right, we wouldn't let them have their fun in a case like that as we don't believe in bothering others.
In the link below, this is something our kids would not be allowed to do.Dunno where it is, but yes, it would get on my nerves as well if we had to deal with such. I could clearly see someone complaining about this in every right.About a minute or two into the video, they hold up traffic on a one direction three lane road.
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