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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.

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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.

??? No, this isn’t how city people think in small towns.

Then why is nextdooor full of urbanites who have moved to suburbia and freak out when they see a fox or a snake?

Are these posts actual “freak outs”?
Or are they merely asking for advice in how to deal with a fox or a snake?

If you grew up in a city, you didn’t need to deal with this stuff.

Likewise, if you grew up in the countryside, you’ll probably need some help in deciphering the subway system.

Y’a don’t know what y’a don’t know.

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.

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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.

??? No, this isn’t how city people think in small towns.

Then why is nextdooor full of urbanites who have moved to suburbia and freak out when they see a fox or a snake?

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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.

??? No, this isn’t how city people think in small towns.

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Anonymous wrote:I am from a small town. Loved in Boston and DC, now live in the Midwest on the outskirts in a midsize town.

I find that “city” people and “small town” people both make a lot of assumption about each other. In the same way the post here mocks small town people for being nervous in the city, they are often nervous in a small town.

They also have this idea that it is unsafe in a small town if you are a minority. Which I find hilarious, because half my Hicksville backwood good ol’ boys and girls are in interracial marriages…way more than my DC elite friends.

I wish we’d all take a deep breath and realize there are good and bad people everywhere.

Agreed. I actually find city people to be more judgmental and more likely to make lazy stereotypes about small town people than the opposite.

I think it depends on how you define lazy. My sister lives in the country and never walks anywhere. They drive all the time, even if it’s to a different store in the same shopping center. We walk all the time because things are accessible and parking is difficult. On the other hand, we’re far more likely to have something delivered because that’s easier and not too expensive, especially if I would’ve had to pay for parking. She never has things delivered because they’re used to driving everywhere for errands and they live so far away from restaurants and stores that most places don’t offer the service or charge a lot for it. She thinks I’m a little lazy for relying on deliveries, and I think she’s a little lazy for driving even when she can walk. It’s all about perspective.

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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.

??? No, this isn’t how city people think in small towns.

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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.

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

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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.

Anonymous wrote:People in my small (4k people) midwestern home town either (1) love the city and couldn’t wait to get there (like me); (2) love the shopping in the city but hate the crowds and traffic, so only go when they have to; or (3) are terrified of the city because of all the gangs and shootings and would never dare go.