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Old 04-10-2012, 11:02 AM
 
Location: Southwest Desert
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Curmudgeon...Thanks for your post and explanations etc..I've never liked hearing "big city people" toss around terms like "hillbillies" or "hicks" etc...Talk about arrogance! And being insensitive and ignorant etc..I lived in Orange Co. CA for awhile and heard these terms used too much!...Why do people who seem to "have a lot" need to put others "down?"...It always reminds me of teenage movies where some of the rich and popular kids in high-school spend their days making fun of overweight kids or poor kids or kids they consider to be "nerds" etc...Why do people who seem to "have it made" in so many ways need to "make fun" of anyone? This has always stumped me!..When I tell my closest friends that I am thinking about moving near relatives in rural Western Kansas they are happy for me and supportive. But I've run into some "snide comments" from acquaintances. It all seems like a "big joke" to them! They don't have any "manners!"
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Old 04-10-2012, 01:44 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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Curmudgeon...Thanks for your post and explanations etc..I've never liked hearing "big city people" toss around terms like "hillbillies" or "hicks" etc...Talk about arrogance! And being insensitive and ignorant etc..I lived in Orange Co. CA for awhile and heard these terms used too much!...Why do people who seem to "have a lot" need to put others "down?"...It always reminds me of teenage movies where some of the rich and popular kids in high-school spend their days making fun of overweight kids or poor kids or kids they consider to be "nerds" etc...Why do people who seem to "have it made" in so many ways need to "make fun" of anyone? This has always stumped me!..When I tell my closest friends that I am thinking about moving near relatives in rural Western Kansas they are happy for me and supportive. But I've run into some "snide comments" from acquaintances. It all seems like a "big joke" to them! They don't have any "manners!"
Too funny. I was raised in Newport Beach, on Lido Isle, from age 5 until I enlisted at age 19 with a few breaks thanks to my father's military career. While not as bad back then as it is now there was plenty of "snob value" going around.

During my misspent youth I was born in San Diego, lived in AL, NC twice, VA, mainland China and Japan and attended a prep-school in MN, but CA was always home. People there only knew storybook rednecks and hillbillies and there was always disdain for them.

During my adulthood, in addition to one other country where people had a bad habit of shooting at me, I also resided in GA, KY, Texas twice and VA again before returning to CA - SoCal, the Central Valley and NorCal. Still the same disdain.

Without putting too fine an edge on it, suffice it to say my wife and I "returned" to the hill country willingly and purposely. She was a midwife in the Ozarks for seven years back in the 70s, then in the California Gold Country. I simply wished to return to America where people have a simple, patriotic, family-centered value-set I felt had disappeared on the left coast.

So far we've not been disappointed. This is truly home.

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Old 04-10-2012, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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Missouri doesn't really deserve to be stereotyped as a hillbilly state, especially since half of it doesn't have them!
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Old 04-10-2012, 02:24 PM
 
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I have a friend that moved from Iowa to mid Mo to begin her teaching career. When she told her family that she had met the man she was going to marry, they fully expected him to be wearing overalls, barefoot and uneducated. I begged him to dress the part when they came to meet him. LOL
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Old 04-10-2012, 02:52 PM
 
Location: Table Rock Lake
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As am I. Let them land and polute elsewhere.
We would surely welcome them as we welcomed you Curmudgeon. I have been amused everytime I sold property to a state neighbor who said, "We are here now, time to close the gate".

Had we not experienced the influx of other states neighbors, we wouldn't have the increase of our new standard of living. It wasn't so long ago that we couldn't afford to build a new house on credit. We could pay the house payments, it was the insurance payments we couldn't afford. Thanks to all the new people we now have fire departments and a new house. Thanks to all that have helped our standard of living.
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Old 04-10-2012, 03:06 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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I have a friend that moved from Iowa to mid Mo to begin her teaching career. When she told her family that she had met the man she was going to marry, they fully expected him to be wearing overalls, barefoot and uneducated. I begged him to dress the part when they came to meet him. LOL
Wouldn't work. He'd have had to have some prominent teeth pulled to fit the stereotype.
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Old 04-10-2012, 03:08 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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We would surely welcome them as we welcomed you Curmudgeon. I have been amused everytime I sold property to a state neighbor who said, "We are here now, time to close the gate".

Had we not experienced the influx of other states neighbors, we wouldn't have the increase of our new standard of living. It wasn't so long ago that we couldn't afford to build a new house on credit. We could pay the house payments, it was the insurance payments we couldn't afford. Thanks to all the new people we now have fire departments and a new house. Thanks to all that have helped our standard of living.
Fell in love with the Ozarks in the 50s; my wife did so in the 70s. Standard of livin' is fine. Close the gates!
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Old 04-10-2012, 03:56 PM
 
Location: Table Rock Lake
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Fell in love with the Ozarks in the 50s; my wife did so in the 70s. Standard of livin' is fine. Close the gates!
Glad your here neighbor. Like you posted, I also like to wake up in the mornings and look at the water. Hope to meet you sometime.
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Old 04-10-2012, 04:14 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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Glad your here neighbor. Like you posted, I also like to wake up in the mornings and look at the water. Hope to meet you sometime.
Name yur poison. Pizza or coffee!
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Old 04-10-2012, 10:12 PM
 
Location: Table Rock Lake
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Name yur poison. Pizza or coffee!
LOL What ever will be ...............will be.
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