Rural Living is Better then the Concrete Jungle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

Life is not good anywhere without money. At least with rural life there is peace and quiet, open spaces and outdoor life/living

Also the people have a naive simplicity that many of us more urban folk find charming. Despite their gap teeth and squirrel-eating inbred hick ways, perhaps we have much to learn from them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

Life is not good anywhere without money. At least with rural life there is peace and quiet, open spaces and outdoor life/living

Also the people have a naive simplicity that many of us more urban folk find charming. Despite their gap teeth and squirrel-eating inbred hick ways, perhaps we have much to learn from them!

Indeed! It could be that we have much to learn from our country cousins... and their cousin-spouses.

Banjo picking, anyone? Fancy a trip to Wal-Mart?

[Anonymous]

Life is pretty bad without money in both rural and urban areas.

Suburban college towns are probably the ideal places for poor people. My HHI income was under 30K when I was a child and we lived decently in a cheap college town. Lots of inexpensive places to go, my friends and I hung out at the local university, and we owned a nice 2000 sq ft house (my parents bought it for $74,000 in the 90s). Can't do that in a lot of places.

[Anonymous]

I moved to Charlottesville fro dc proper a few year ago and I've never looked back. Reading some of there disparaging posts I can see how the study rings true. Anyone who is so nasty and vile definitely lacks happiness. Please please do stay in dc, charlottesville and it rural surroundings is truly a wonderful place to live and grow your family and there is no rom for dc bigots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved to Charlottesville fro dc proper a few year ago and I've never looked back. Reading some of there disparaging posts I can see how the study rings true. Anyone who is so nasty and vile definitely lacks happiness. Please please do stay in dc, charlottesville and it rural surroundings is truly a wonderful place to live and grow your family and there is no rom for dc bigots.

There are rural parts around charlottesville, but I'd hardly consider that the sticks. It's a fairly large university town. I wouldn't disparage Charlottesville - it is lovely there and has plenty to do. It isn't like WalMart is the only store in town.

[Anonymous]

You are still a vile bigot, even though you give charlottesville a pass. There are plenty of wonderful people living in one stop light towns. You hateful way you disparage other people living a different life than you, shows you are a very ugly person.

Those ppl who work farms provide food on you table and beautiful organic produce to farmers markets, preserving heirloom fruits and veGgies and raising healthy animals that make it onto your dinner plate. Many of them have lived fascinating lives and are good people. Instead of spending so much of your energy being a bitch, you should take some time out of you day to be thankful for those people in the sticks growing your food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are still a vile bigot, even though you give charlottesville a pass. There are plenty of wonderful people living in one stop light towns. You hateful way you disparage other people living a different life than you, shows you are a very ugly person.

Those ppl who work farms provide food on you table and beautiful organic produce to farmers markets, preserving heirloom fruits and veGgies and raising healthy animals that make it onto your dinner plate. Many of them have lived fascinating lives and are good people. Instead of spending so much of your energy being a bitch, you should take some time out of you day to be thankful for those people in the sticks growing your food.

Not the poster you are calling a "vile bigot," but OMG, why do you take yourself so seriously? We all know that farms are important, and that rural life has its charm. Please, calm down or you're gonna have a heart attack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

Well, urban life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's living in an 800 square foot condo, shelling out $20k a year for private school because the local public school has 90% free-reduced price lunches, being crammed on a Metro train, and worrying if your hood will turn back into crack land.

It's all aboot the tradeoffs.

Meth land vs. crack land--I'll chance crack land. Besides in DC, currently, crack is really NOT a thing even with the underclass. There is a huge push back against it in black urban communities. All sorts of clean-cut middle class looking white kids have access to meth. No thanks, I'll take the city any day and be relatively certain that upward mobility values we continue to ostracize crack use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are still a vile bigot, even though you give charlottesville a pass. There are plenty of wonderful people living in one stop light towns. You hateful way you disparage other people living a different life than you, shows you are a very ugly person.

Those ppl who work farms provide food on you table and beautiful organic produce to farmers markets, preserving heirloom fruits and veGgies and raising healthy animals that make it onto your dinner plate. Many of them have lived fascinating lives and are good people. Instead of spending so much of your energy being a bitch, you should take some time out of you day to be thankful for those people in the sticks growing your food.

Not the poster you are calling a "vile bigot," but OMG, why do you take yourself so seriously? We all know that farms are important, and that rural life has its charm. Please, calm down or you're gonna have a heart attack.

"Vile Bigot" here. Holy crap - I agree, calm the eff down. I didn't say anything about the people at all. And I think the word disparage actually came from an earlier post. I actually wouldn't make fun of the people. I personally would go nuts living in a one stoplight town, but I know that others like it. I was merely pointing out that Charlottesville is far from being a one stoplight town, that is all.

I wasn't the one saying stuff about deliverance. Again, this is why I hate that this is anonymous - you're venting all anger towards one poster when several others have contributed to the post who deserve a little more of your rage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

Life is not good anywhere without money. At least with rural life there is peace and quiet, open spaces and outdoor life/living

Also the people have a naive simplicity that many of us more urban folk find charming. Despite their gap teeth and squirrel-eating inbred hick ways, perhaps we have much to learn from them!

Seriously, the squirrel eating is just plain gross. I don't equate living in the country with eating squirrels. But, I'm sure there are many elitists that do. Can we agree that grinding poverty is painful, especially if you are acutely aware of your deprivation? My father grew up desperately poor, eating squirrels and such, but he and his neighbors were not really "aware of their poverty. There was no TV in very rural areas in the 30's, 40's even 50's. Everyone lived with much less luxury. Now, a cattle farmer in Tanzania has the internet and wants "bling". It is really sad...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who moved to the country because she and her husband wanted their kids to have lots of land to play and woods to explore. Fast forward 6y and she is in fear of her kids going into the woods because of ticks and can't leave them alone outside for even a second because of a creek that runs through the woods on their property. It takes 45m to get to the nearest preschool, they can't find babysitters they trust, and in the end they are trying to sell their house and move back to the burbs.

We're moving to the stix soon.

But I still find this post very funny, PP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

Life is not good anywhere without money. At least with rural life there is peace and quiet, open spaces and outdoor life/living

Also the people have a naive simplicity that many of us more urban folk find charming. Despite their gap teeth and squirrel-eating inbred hick ways, perhaps we have much to learn from them!

I grew up in the burbs and we had a neighbor who enjoy his squirrels. We were all aghast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved to Charlottesville fro dc proper a few year ago and I've never looked back. Reading some of there disparaging posts I can see how the study rings true. Anyone who is so nasty and vile definitely lacks happiness. Please please do stay in dc, charlottesville and it rural surroundings is truly a wonderful place to live and grow your family and there is no rom for dc bigots.

There are rural parts around charlottesville, but I'd hardly consider that the sticks. It's a fairly large university town. I wouldn't disparage Charlottesville - it is lovely there and has plenty to do. It isn't like WalMart is the only store in town.

Albemarle County has one of the highest average HHIs in the country. You are hardly in the sticks.

[Anonymous]

So we're only talking about poor rural areas? It doesn't qualify as "the sticks" if people have money but few neighbors, schools, stores, etc?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:. No thanks, I'll take the city any day and be relatively certain that upward mobility values we continue to ostracize crack use.

face it, people are different.
Some just love small towns an rural areas, others could never imagine anything other than city living in a large city.
The quality of life you get is different. But it is still a good life