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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.  [b]Enjoy Applebee's. [/b] [/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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