Just moved from major metro area to rural America - observations

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6 years ago 11/23/2017 11:51pm EST

re: Grapes of Wrath

This guy has it totally wrong. I grew up in a town of 200 people. High school class of 45. The entire county didn't have a stoplight or franchise. Currently, I live in a metro of 6ish million.

I can definitely say city people are boring. They are all too specialized and afraid to not be perfect. Plus, everything in Cities takes 2-3 times as long to get done so they can't physically be involved in as many activities, get as much done, or have as diverse experience.

American cities, save but a few, are all terrible drosscapes of car centric urbanism. This makes everybody act like they have no time and are always rushed because they are all terrified of the amount of time consumed to travel from one thing to the next. This creates a false sense of speed/intellectualism.

Few city people accomplish the same as rural residents. For example, my father ran a business, was a fire fighter, managed a farm, member of a dozen community organizations that met regularly, and was home for dinner nearly every night. Plus in his spare time was a scout leader, blacksmithed, and helped run his father's business. That's not possible in a city.

6 years ago 11/24/2017 9:23am EST

re: OP is a fraud

OP is a fraud wrote:
Grapes of Wrath wrote:
Major as downtown area of 7 million+ metro, Some of these may be obvious, so bear with me. Just my two cents:
1. Cost of living: Night and Day. I rent a nice-ish 2 bedroom house with nice trimmings (granite counter top, washer/dryer, .5 acres of land lots of space) for $400/month. I can get all my groceries for the week for less than $75. Beer is cheaper. Everything is CHEAP. You can actually live on 50k here. I made 80k in the big city and lived paycheck to paycheck.
2. Food. This has been the biggest adjustment. There were 40-50 restaurants within a 5 minute walk of my old aparment. Indian, Thai, Korean, upscale, dive, hipster, normal. Everything, and it was all good. Food here is bland, the options are very limited. Basically fast food + Chinese is "Eating out" is this area. If you're a food snob, have a palate with some sophistication or are used variety, rural America is pretty bleak.
3. People. People are MUCH nicer and polite, but also fairly slow (both in terms of speech patterns and...intelectually). Irony is not something they understand. Everything is taken at face value, religion is of high importance, physical fitness is not emphasiezd. People are very out of shape, in general.
4. Environment. Everything is very spread out. Lots are huge. I see one other house from my living room window. In the city, 50,000 people lived within a half mile of me. Roads are wider. Streets are totally spotless. But everything looks a little beige and drab. There's not much attention to style or design. Everything feels utilitarian, basic, simple, traditional.
All in all, I prefer the city with all of its faults, its crime, filth and loneliness. Life out here is too simple. Boredom is setting in already and I've only been here a few weeks.
OP is a red diaper grandkid. LOL
He's listing every stereotype the old bolsheviks/mensheviks teach their kids about "the other". He should just admit he hates the founding/majority population of the US on one of his group's intramural sites.

Everything he cites is to advance cultural marxism

Its kinda bad when every one in Big Cities thinks alike and they admit that they are confused that other parts of the country do not agree

Haha, their apparent “Intelligence” isnt shared by others and they are uniformed as to why.

Haha, you have a Tranny GAga

And middle America has peace

Its kinda sick to know or meet and urban girl with a worthless bachelor degree that tells you that her boyfriend opening Dumped her for other girls, thats Plural, and then she says she also had an Abortion.

And, “do you hate me now that Ive had an abortion?”

No, i dont hate you.

Its Sin, Abortion is sin

Repent

And be saved

John 3:16

Romans 10:9

Lets see how this would work the other way.

Rural girl: “hi”

Urban guy: “I killed a man with a knife”

Rural girl: “oh yeah?”

Urban guy: “do you hate me now?”

Urban guy: “and my girlfriend dumped me to have sex with other men.”

Yuck

This world makes me sick

Republican Politicians being attacked with Mass murderous intentions

Jesus is Coming Back Again

Repent and be Save

So you need to say a prayer of Romans 10:9

“ 9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”[e] 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”[f]”

6 years ago 11/24/2017 11:56am EST

re: Rural2urban

Rural2urban wrote:
Few city people accomplish the same as rural residents. For example, my father ran a business, was a fire fighter, managed a farm, member of a dozen community organizations that met regularly, and was home for dinner nearly every night. Plus in his spare time was a scout leader, blacksmithed, and helped run his father's business. That's not possible in a city.

Laura Roesler won 22 state championships in high school. That's not possible in California or Texas. So high school athletes in North Dakota achieve more, right?

6 years ago 11/24/2017 12:13pm EST

re: Big small who cares

Big small who cares wrote:
My dogs can poop on real grass and run off of a leash for miles.

6 years ago 11/24/2017 12:43pm EST

re: Grapes of Wrath

In the cities, all everyone talks/cares about is

* What career they have

* What company they work for

* What neighborhood they live in

It's quite obnoxious when you take a step back and consider it.

6 years ago 11/24/2017 12:54pm EST

re: jamin

jamin wrote:
In the cities, all everyone talks/cares about is
* What career they have
* What company they work for
* What neighborhood they live in
It's quite obnoxious when you take a step back and consider it.

Maybe you just hang around with dull people.

6 years ago 11/24/2017 1:06pm EST

re: not my experience

OP, how the hell can you be bored? Why don't you train hard instead? I've yet to see anybody running high mileage experience boredom.

6 years ago 11/24/2017 1:22pm EST

re: Just Another LRC Idiot

Just Another LRC Idiot wrote:
Rural2urban wrote:
Few city people accomplish the same as rural residents. For example, my father ran a business, was a fire fighter, managed a farm, member of a dozen community organizations that met regularly, and was home for dinner nearly every night. Plus in his spare time was a scout leader, blacksmithed, and helped run his father's business. That's not possible in a city.

translation. 1. ran a business= was a freelance handyman. 2. fire fighter= small town where anyone can volunteer by taking a weekend course, and then is given a walki talki to listen while at home. 3. managed a farm= sold apples on the side of the road. 4.community organizations=everyone over the age of 18 is on the town council. 5. scout leader= took showers with 10 year old boys while wearing swimsuits. 6. blacksmith= made a sword in his garage for the civil war reinactment. 7. fathers business= same business that he ran(see #1).

home for dinner.... did all this while his wife spent the entire day taking care of the kids, cleaning the house, and spending 3 hours making him dinner.

6 years ago 11/24/2017 2:52pm EST

re: jamin

jamin wrote:
In the cities, all everyone talks/cares about is
* What career they have
* What company they work for
* What neighborhood they live in
It's quite obnoxious when you take a step back and consider it.

Yeah, when do they gossip about neighbors and relatives? It's pretty obnoxious that urban folks have so little interest in other people's private lives...

6 years ago 11/24/2017 4:46pm EST

re: An urban resident

An urban resident wrote:
jamin wrote:
In the cities, all everyone talks/cares about is
* What career they have
* What company they work for
* What neighborhood they live in
It's quite obnoxious when you take a step back and consider it.
Yeah, when do they gossip about neighbors and relatives? It's pretty obnoxious that urban folks have so little interest in other people's private lives...

Well yea, there's not as much gossip in cities because people rarely talk to each other in the first place.

6 years ago 11/24/2017 5:08pm EST

re: jamin

jamin wrote:
An urban resident wrote:
Yeah, when do they gossip about neighbors and relatives? It's pretty obnoxious that urban folks have so little interest in other people's private lives...
Well yea, there's not as much gossip in cities because people rarely talk to each other in the first place.

So you want other people keep asking you why you are not getting a date? That wouldn't increase your chances of getting a date...

6 years ago 11/24/2017 5:10pm EST

re: Rural2urban

Rural2urban wrote:
This guy has it totally wrong. I grew up in a town of 200 people. High school class of 45. The entire county didn't have a stoplight or franchise. Currently, I live in a metro of 6ish million.
I can definitely say city people are boring. They are all too specialized and afraid to not be perfect. Plus, everything in Cities takes 2-3 times as long to get done so they can't physically be involved in as many activities, get as much done, or have as diverse experience.
American cities, save but a few, are all terrible drosscapes of car centric urbanism. This makes everybody act like they have no time and are always rushed because they are all terrified of the amount of time consumed to travel from one thing to the next. This creates a false sense of speed/intellectualism.
Few city people accomplish the same as rural residents. For example, my father ran a business, was a fire fighter, managed a farm, member of a dozen community organizations that met regularly, and was home for dinner nearly every night. Plus in his spare time was a scout leader, blacksmithed, and helped run his father's business. That's not possible in a city.

I had never thought of this. Thanks.

6 years ago 11/24/2017 5:25pm EST

re: Hayduke

Hayduke wrote:
translation. 1. ran a business= was a freelance handyman. 2. fire fighter= small town where anyone can volunteer by taking a weekend course, and then is given a walki talki to listen while at home. 3. managed a farm= sold apples on the side of the road. 4.community organizations=everyone over the age of 18 is on the town council. 5. scout leader= took showers with 10 year old boys while wearing swimsuits. 6. blacksmith= made a sword in his garage for the civil war reinactment. 7. fathers business= same business that he ran(see #1).
home for dinner.... did all this while his wife spent the entire day taking care of the kids, cleaning the house, and spending 3 hours making him dinner.

What's your point, moron? That's still not possible in a city..

6 years ago 11/24/2017 5:29pm EST

re: Rural2urban

Rural2urban wrote:
This guy has it totally wrong. I grew up in a town of 200 people. High school class of 45. The entire county didn't have a stoplight or franchise. Currently, I live in a metro of 6ish million.
I can definitely say city people are boring. They are all too specialized and afraid to not be perfect. Plus, everything in Cities takes 2-3 times as long to get done so they can't physically be involved in as many activities, get as much done, or have as diverse experience.
American cities, save but a few, are all terrible drosscapes of car centric urbanism. This makes everybody act like they have no time and are always rushed because they are all terrified of the amount of time consumed to travel from one thing to the next. This creates a false sense of speed/intellectualism.
Few city people accomplish the same as rural residents. For example, my father ran a business, was a fire fighter, managed a farm, member of a dozen community organizations that met regularly, and was home for dinner nearly every night. Plus in his spare time was a scout leader, blacksmithed, and helped run his father's business. That's not possible in a city.

Why are salaries higher in urban centers if the people there are so much less productive?

6 years ago 11/25/2017 12:40am EST

re: Cleaver.

6 years ago 11/25/2017 12:48am EST

re: quick question

quick question wrote:
Rural2urban wrote:
This guy has it totally wrong. I grew up in a town of 200 people. High school class of 45. The entire county didn't have a stoplight or franchise. Currently, I live in a metro of 6ish million.
I can definitely say city people are boring. They are all too specialized and afraid to not be perfect. Plus, everything in Cities takes 2-3 times as long to get done so they can't physically be involved in as many activities, get as much done, or have as diverse experience.
American cities, save but a few, are all terrible drosscapes of car centric urbanism. This makes everybody act like they have no time and are always rushed because they are all terrified of the amount of time consumed to travel from one thing to the next. This creates a false sense of speed/intellectualism.
Few city people accomplish the same as rural residents. For example, my father ran a business, was a fire fighter, managed a farm, member of a dozen community organizations that met regularly, and was home for dinner nearly every night. Plus in his spare time was a scout leader, blacksmithed, and helped run his father's business. That's not possible in a city.
Why are salaries higher in urban centers if the people there are so much less productive?

6 years ago 11/25/2017 1:02am EST

re: quick question

quick question wrote:
Rural2urban wrote:
This guy has it totally wrong. I grew up in a town of 200 people. High school class of 45. The entire county didn't have a stoplight or franchise. Currently, I live in a metro of 6ish million.
I can definitely say city people are boring. They are all too specialized and afraid to not be perfect. Plus, everything in Cities takes 2-3 times as long to get done so they can't physically be involved in as many activities, get as much done, or have as diverse experience.
American cities, save but a few, are all terrible drosscapes of car centric urbanism. This makes everybody act like they have no time and are always rushed because they are all terrified of the amount of time consumed to travel from one thing to the next. This creates a false sense of speed/intellectualism.
Few city people accomplish the same as rural residents. For example, my father ran a business, was a fire fighter, managed a farm, member of a dozen community organizations that met regularly, and was home for dinner nearly every night. Plus in his spare time was a scout leader, blacksmithed, and helped run his father's business. That's not possible in a city.
Why are salaries higher in urban centers if the people there are so much less productive?

Its because of Welfare, you pay for people to

wife 80% if rent paid by Welfare, a guy that should be there lives there. I knew a guy that had to wait until sunset to go climb through a window in the Hood housing projects.

food stamps, you dont even know about parties had by low life welfare recepients

They save up, $2,000 worth of food stamps then party with Beer and steaks

Ive heard of an Illegal alien Mexican sending thousands back to Mexico, building his 125 acre ranch there will his wife collects WIC food stamp checks

Ive heard of an Illegal alien mexican buying his wife fake chest meat, aka a Boob Job

Or supporting her prescription pain pill adiction

Because he had cash money while she collected welfare

You wealthy white and black democrats have no clue

How can one Un-brainwash you?

Crazy

Sick actually

What ive also found in big metro areas is prices just keep increasing bc someone will pay it, company or city passing tax off on you.

I have dropped my Sports bc its too expensive, so I run

Thats it, run

6 years ago 11/25/2017 1:08am EST

re: Welfare_stupidity

Welfare_stupidity wrote:
quick question wrote:
Why are salaries higher in urban centers if the people there are so much less productive?
Its because of Welfare, you pay for people to
1
wife 80% if rent paid by Welfare, a guy that should be there lives there. I knew a guy that had to wait until sunset to go climb through a window in the Hood housing projects.
2
food stamps, you dont even know about parties had by low life welfare recepients
They save up, $2,000 worth of food stamps then party with Beer and steaks
3
Ive heard of an Illegal alien Mexican sending thousands back to Mexico, building his 125 acre ranch there will his wife collects WIC food stamp checks
4
Ive heard of an Illegal alien mexican buying his wife fake chest meat, aka a Boob Job
Or supporting her prescription pain pill adiction
Because he had cash money while she collected welfare
You wealthy white and black democrats have no clue
How can one Un-brainwash you?
Crazy
Sick actually
What ive also found in big metro areas is prices just keep increasing bc someone will pay it, company or city passing tax off on you.
I have dropped my Sports bc its too expensive, so I run
Thats it, run

The salaries look high but they are low

All that tax money and living cost dont show the clear picture

I know a young unmarried guy in San Fran, $125,000 per year, no car, no house, shared room and shared showers

What kind of life is that?

6 years ago 11/25/2017 1:53am EST

re: quick question

quick question wrote:
Why are salaries higher in urban centers if the people there are so much less productive?

How else would you get somebody to live in a cesspool of rats and cockroaches? (the human kind)

6 years ago 11/25/2017 7:23am EST

re: Miles of country roads.......

Miles of country roads....... wrote:
quick question wrote:
Why are salaries higher in urban centers if the people there are so much less productive?
How else would you get somebody to live in a cesspool of rats and cockroaches? (the human kind)

Companies have no inherent desire to get people to live in cities. If labor in urban areas demanded higher pay without being more productive, companies just wouldn't hire them at all and they'd pick a different place to operate. I think you'll find that there is no great rush of NYC firms to move headquarters to Montana in search of these mythical wildly productive rural individuals.

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