Do people in small town hates the city ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think you’re all a bunch of stuck up snobs. I grew up in a town of 3000 the heart of the Midwest. The closest big city was 90 minutes away and it only had 175,000 people.

I’ve lived in the DMV for 40 years or so now, currently right downtown. I’m still really close with all of my high school friends and see them often, and none of them ever left my town.

They’re not “terrified” of the city. They don’t clutch their purses or look at people of color in horror. They think visiting me is exciting and fun.

You all really need to disabuse yourselves of this notion that you are somehow better or more sophisticated than people in small towns or the small towns that you left behind. The real difference between you people and them is that you left to move to the city to work your ass off in some soulless high-paying job that has come to define your entire sense being. And all you care about is money and status and what friggin’ schools your kids go to.

It’s pretty sad.

I grew up in a small town in Indiana. My experience is that people in small towns are way more critical of city people than vice versa. For the most part, the big city people don't think much about the small town people at all.

Except on DCUM. Who started this thread again?

Probably someone who heard about that craptacular Aldean song where he was posturing about how much better and tougher small town people are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it true that people from small towns hate the city or is just dumb songs?

We've lived in both. Urban shithole describes city living to a t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you’re all a bunch of stuck up snobs. I grew up in a town of 3000 the heart of the Midwest. The closest big city was 90 minutes away and it only had 175,000 people.

I’ve lived in the DMV for 40 years or so now, currently right downtown. I’m still really close with all of my high school friends and see them often, and none of them ever left my town.

They’re not “terrified” of the city. They don’t clutch their purses or look at people of color in horror. They think visiting me is exciting and fun.

You all really need to disabuse yourselves of this notion that you are somehow better or more sophisticated than people in small towns or the small towns that you left behind. The real difference between you people and them is that you left to move to the city to work your ass off in some soulless high-paying job that has come to define your entire sense being. And all you care about is money and status and what friggin’ schools your kids go to.

It’s pretty sad.

but yet here you are, living downtown in an overpriced condo..most likely for work/$$

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you’re all a bunch of stuck up snobs. I grew up in a town of 3000 the heart of the Midwest. The closest big city was 90 minutes away and it only had 175,000 people.

I’ve lived in the DMV for 40 years or so now, currently right downtown. I’m still really close with all of my high school friends and see them often, and none of them ever left my town.

They’re not “terrified” of the city. They don’t clutch their purses or look at people of color in horror. They think visiting me is exciting and fun.

You all really need to disabuse yourselves of this notion that you are somehow better or more sophisticated than people in small towns or the small towns that you left behind. The real difference between you people and them is that you left to move to the city to work your ass off in some soulless high-paying job that has come to define your entire sense being. And all you care about is money and status and what friggin’ schools your kids go to.

It’s pretty sad.

I grew up in a small town in Indiana. My experience is that people in small towns are way more critical of city people than vice versa. For the most part, the big city people don't think much about the small town people at all.

Except on DCUM. Who started this thread again?

Probably someone who heard about that craptacular Aldean song where he was posturing about how much better and tougher small town people are.

Pretty sure Aldean wouldn't fit in in his "small town" of Macon, GA. 31% below the poverty line and majority non-white

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you’re all a bunch of stuck up snobs. I grew up in a town of 3000 the heart of the Midwest. The closest big city was 90 minutes away and it only had 175,000 people.

I’ve lived in the DMV for 40 years or so now, currently right downtown. I’m still really close with all of my high school friends and see them often, and none of them ever left my town.

They’re not “terrified” of the city. They don’t clutch their purses or look at people of color in horror. They think visiting me is exciting and fun.

You all really need to disabuse yourselves of this notion that you are somehow better or more sophisticated than people in small towns or the small towns that you left behind. The real difference between you people and them is that you left to move to the city to work your ass off in some soulless high-paying job that has come to define your entire sense being. And all you care about is money and status and what friggin’ schools your kids go to.

It’s pretty sad.

I grew up in a small town in Indiana. My experience is that people in small towns are way more critical of city people than vice versa. For the most part, the big city people don't think much about the small town people at all.

Except on DCUM. Who started this thread again?

Probably someone who heard about that craptacular Aldean song where he was posturing about how much better and tougher small town people are.

Pretty sure Aldean wouldn't fit in in his "small town" of Macon, GA. 31% below the poverty line and majority non-white

If suburban rich kid Robert "Kid Rock" Ritchie can pretend to be from a trailer park, I guess Macon, Jason Aldean can pretend to be from a small town.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think they can only see the negatives and have a lot of fear. Like a friend had never hailed a cab OR taken an Uber and was afraid to do both. Didn't know how to use a city bus, was afraid of mass transit underground. Thought all homeless people were inherently dangerous. Also thought a lot of people were homeless when they were just poor. Kept asking me where everyone was going. Couldn't sleep at night due to city noises I barely noticed.

Funnily one of my friends from a small town is a huge extrovert and found the city too overstimulating while I'm an introvert and don't.

It's funny when city people visit the small towns. Every stray animal is rabid. Every snake is some deadly, poisonous viper. All the bugs are "eating them alive." You sometimes have to walk more than block to get somewhere. If you don't have something, you improvise until the next time you make it to the store or borrow something from a neighbor. Of course, city people already know everything, so you can't tell them anything they don't already know.

Similarly, when small town folks (and they're always folks) come to the city, they walk around clutching their overstuffed tourist backpacks as if every person they encounter (especially every person blessed with more melanin than they are) is going to rip it off their body. They refuse to ride the Green Line, because the last time they were in DC, for the Glen Beck rally, someone told them it wasn't safe. They go to dinner at something in the Farmers and Fishers family and then proclaim that the food in DC isn't all that, failing to recognize that they went to one of the chains that caters to tourists and yes, is complete crap. And then they return home proclaiming the superiority of small town living, in the same breath that they complain about the price of gas for their F-150, because they have to drive all over hell's creation to run their errands.

Funny, indeed. Enjoy Applebee's.

You are determined to prove your ignorance. Applebee's is a suburban thing. The small Southern town of 25,000 that I live in has many lovely restaurants, including everything from several excellent "farm to table" restaurants to great old diners. We have five coffee shops, not one of which is a Starbucks. We have four sushi restaurants (not counting the poke place), and we just got a new Vietnamese restaurant, which means the only ethnic food that we don't have are Korean & Ethiopian.

What we don't have? Crime. Or a high cost of living. Which is why young creative chefs can afford to open new restaurants in places like my small Southern town.

After being used to the vibrant economic activity in my town over the past few years, I couldn't believe how sad downtown DC was last time I came to visit. I think it's happened so slowly that the residents don't see it, but it was shocking, and not the DC I remember.

No, I'm not going to tell you where it is (other than "not Florida"), because we are overrun with new people already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone romanticizes the concept of the small town. But the number of outward migrations don’t lie.

This. I left a small town and would never go back. It's fine for some people, the type that have family connections and like being the big fish in a small pond. And that's fine. But, people often romanticize the slower pace in a small town and there are some very ugly aspects of living in those towns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they can only see the negatives and have a lot of fear. Like a friend had never hailed a cab OR taken an Uber and was afraid to do both. Didn't know how to use a city bus, was afraid of mass transit underground. Thought all homeless people were inherently dangerous. Also thought a lot of people were homeless when they were just poor. Kept asking me where everyone was going. Couldn't sleep at night due to city noises I barely noticed.

Funnily one of my friends from a small town is a huge extrovert and found the city too overstimulating while I'm an introvert and don't.

It's funny when city people visit the small towns. Every stray animal is rabid. Every snake is some deadly, poisonous viper. All the bugs are "eating them alive." You sometimes have to walk more than block to get somewhere. If you don't have something, you improvise until the next time you make it to the store or borrow something from a neighbor. Of course, city people already know everything, so you can't tell them anything they don't already know.

Similarly, when small town folks (and they're always folks) come to the city, they walk around clutching their overstuffed tourist backpacks as if every person they encounter (especially every person blessed with more melanin than they are) is going to rip it off their body. They refuse to ride the Green Line, because the last time they were in DC, for the Glen Beck rally, someone told them it wasn't safe. They go to dinner at something in the Farmers and Fishers family and then proclaim that the food in DC isn't all that, failing to recognize that they went to one of the chains that caters to tourists and yes, is complete crap. And then they return home proclaiming the superiority of small town living, in the same breath that they complain about the price of gas for their F-150, because they have to drive all over hell's creation to run their errands.

Funny, indeed. Enjoy Applebee's.

You are determined to prove your ignorance. Applebee's is a suburban thing. The small Southern town of 25,000 that I live in has many lovely restaurants, including everything from several excellent "farm to table" restaurants to great old diners. We have five coffee shops, not one of which is a Starbucks. We have four sushi restaurants (not counting the poke place), and we just got a new Vietnamese restaurant, which means the only ethnic food that we don't have are Korean & Ethiopian.

What we don't have? Crime. Or a high cost of living. Which is why young creative chefs can afford to open new restaurants in places like my small Southern town.

After being used to the vibrant economic activity in my town over the past few years, I couldn't believe how sad downtown DC was last time I came to visit. I think it's happened so slowly that the residents don't see it, but it was shocking, and not the DC I remember.

No, I'm not going to tell you where it is (other than "not Florida"), because we are overrun with new people already.

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You are describing AFFLUENT small towns. Most are not like that (I'm from one). A true small town with industry like slaughterhouses nearby, farms, etc. There are not young chefs going to those towns to put up shop. No one can afford them. And you folks moving to those affluent areas are only gentrifying it economically and making it more affluent.

My small town is VERY much Applebees and the like. VERY much. And for a special night, there's always Red Lobster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you’re all a bunch of stuck up snobs. I grew up in a town of 3000 the heart of the Midwest. The closest big city was 90 minutes away and it only had 175,000 people.

I’ve lived in the DMV for 40 years or so now, currently right downtown. I’m still really close with all of my high school friends and see them often, and none of them ever left my town.

They’re not “terrified” of the city. They don’t clutch their purses or look at people of color in horror. They think visiting me is exciting and fun.

You all really need to disabuse yourselves of this notion that you are somehow better or more sophisticated than people in small towns or the small towns that you left behind. The real difference between you people and them is that you left to move to the city to work your ass off in some soulless high-paying job that has come to define your entire sense being. And all you care about is money and status and what friggin’ schools your kids go to.

It’s pretty sad.

I grew up in a small town in Indiana. My experience is that people in small towns are way more critical of city people than vice versa. For the most part, the big city people don't think much about the small town people at all.

Except on DCUM. Who started this thread again?

Probably someone who heard about that craptacular Aldean song where he was posturing about how much better and tougher small town people are.

And as a city person, had an immediate urge to correct the town folk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they can only see the negatives and have a lot of fear. Like a friend had never hailed a cab OR taken an Uber and was afraid to do both. Didn't know how to use a city bus, was afraid of mass transit underground. Thought all homeless people were inherently dangerous. Also thought a lot of people were homeless when they were just poor. Kept asking me where everyone was going. Couldn't sleep at night due to city noises I barely noticed.

Funnily one of my friends from a small town is a huge extrovert and found the city too overstimulating while I'm an introvert and don't.

It's funny when city people visit the small towns. Every stray animal is rabid. Every snake is some deadly, poisonous viper. All the bugs are "eating them alive." You sometimes have to walk more than block to get somewhere. If you don't have something, you improvise until the next time you make it to the store or borrow something from a neighbor. Of course, city people already know everything, so you can't tell them anything they don't already know.

Similarly, when small town folks (and they're always folks) come to the city, they walk around clutching their overstuffed tourist backpacks as if every person they encounter (especially every person blessed with more melanin than they are) is going to rip it off their body. They refuse to ride the Green Line, because the last time they were in DC, for the Glen Beck rally, someone told them it wasn't safe. They go to dinner at something in the Farmers and Fishers family and then proclaim that the food in DC isn't all that, failing to recognize that they went to one of the chains that caters to tourists and yes, is complete crap. And then they return home proclaiming the superiority of small town living, in the same breath that they complain about the price of gas for their F-150, because they have to drive all over hell's creation to run their errands.

Funny, indeed. Enjoy Applebee's.

You are determined to prove your ignorance. Applebee's is a suburban thing. The small Southern town of 25,000 that I live in has many lovely restaurants, including everything from several excellent "farm to table" restaurants to great old diners. We have five coffee shops, not one of which is a Starbucks. We have four sushi restaurants (not counting the poke place), and we just got a new Vietnamese restaurant, which means the only ethnic food that we don't have are Korean & Ethiopian.

What we don't have? Crime. Or a high cost of living. Which is why young creative chefs can afford to open new restaurants in places like my small Southern town.

After being used to the vibrant economic activity in my town over the past few years, I couldn't believe how sad downtown DC was last time I came to visit. I think it's happened so slowly that the residents don't see it, but it was shocking, and not the DC I remember.

No, I'm not going to tell you where it is (other than "not Florida"), because we are overrun with new people already.

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You are describing AFFLUENT small towns. Most are not like that (I'm from one). A true small town with industry like slaughterhouses nearby, farms, etc. There are not young chefs going to those towns to put up shop. No one can afford them. And you folks moving to those affluent areas are only gentrifying it economically and making it more affluent.

My small town is VERY much Applebees and the like. VERY much. And for a special night, there's always Red Lobster.

My town has a population of 3,500. Of which 3,000 are inmates at the state penitentiary. We didn't have an Applebee's or Red Lobster. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you’re all a bunch of stuck up snobs. I grew up in a town of 3000 the heart of the Midwest. The closest big city was 90 minutes away and it only had 175,000 people.

I’ve lived in the DMV for 40 years or so now, currently right downtown. I’m still really close with all of my high school friends and see them often, and none of them ever left my town.

They’re not “terrified” of the city. They don’t clutch their purses or look at people of color in horror. They think visiting me is exciting and fun.

You all really need to disabuse yourselves of this notion that you are somehow better or more sophisticated than people in small towns or the small towns that you left behind. The real difference between you people and them is that you left to move to the city to work your ass off in some soulless high-paying job that has come to define your entire sense being. And all you care about is money and status and what friggin’ schools your kids go to.

It’s pretty sad.

I grew up in a small town in Indiana. My experience is that people in small towns are way more critical of city people than vice versa. For the most part, the big city people don't think much about the small town people at all.

Yeah, well I think you missed the point of my post entirely. My high school friends don’t think that way at all. When I visit it’s just the same old me back in town and we do the same old stuff and have a good old time. You need to lighten up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they can only see the negatives and have a lot of fear. Like a friend had never hailed a cab OR taken an Uber and was afraid to do both. Didn't know how to use a city bus, was afraid of mass transit underground. Thought all homeless people were inherently dangerous. Also thought a lot of people were homeless when they were just poor. Kept asking me where everyone was going. Couldn't sleep at night due to city noises I barely noticed.

Funnily one of my friends from a small town is a huge extrovert and found the city too overstimulating while I'm an introvert and don't.

It's funny when city people visit the small towns. Every stray animal is rabid. Every snake is some deadly, poisonous viper. All the bugs are "eating them alive." You sometimes have to walk more than block to get somewhere. If you don't have something, you improvise until the next time you make it to the store or borrow something from a neighbor. Of course, city people already know everything, so you can't tell them anything they don't already know.

Similarly, when small town folks (and they're always folks) come to the city, they walk around clutching their overstuffed tourist backpacks as if every person they encounter (especially every person blessed with more melanin than they are) is going to rip it off their body. They refuse to ride the Green Line, because the last time they were in DC, for the Glen Beck rally, someone told them it wasn't safe. They go to dinner at something in the Farmers and Fishers family and then proclaim that the food in DC isn't all that, failing to recognize that they went to one of the chains that caters to tourists and yes, is complete crap. And then they return home proclaiming the superiority of small town living, in the same breath that they complain about the price of gas for their F-150, because they have to drive all over hell's creation to run their errands.

Funny, indeed. Enjoy Applebee's.

You are determined to prove your ignorance. Applebee's is a suburban thing. The small Southern town of 25,000 that I live in has many lovely restaurants, including everything from several excellent "farm to table" restaurants to great old diners. We have five coffee shops, not one of which is a Starbucks. We have four sushi restaurants (not counting the poke place), and we just got a new Vietnamese restaurant, which means the only ethnic food that we don't have are Korean & Ethiopian.

What we don't have? Crime. Or a high cost of living. Which is why young creative chefs can afford to open new restaurants in places like my small Southern town.

After being used to the vibrant economic activity in my town over the past few years, I couldn't believe how sad downtown DC was last time I came to visit. I think it's happened so slowly that the residents don't see it, but it was shocking, and not the DC I remember.

No, I'm not going to tell you where it is (other than "not Florida"), because we are overrun with new people already.

First, 25,000 isn’t that small.

Second, I think it’s weird AF that you’re living there yet on this website. Obviously you’re missing something about the big city!