Large number of Snap benefits recievers in Greene County.

Interesting they are mostly white.
Average income $43,000

No thanks

I grew up in a rural area and am confident I could build a fire and frame a shed or similar structure, as I've done both. I've never installed a water pump but that's the kind of task you can figure out with a little research and some effort so I could do it, though I'd prefer to do it with someone who has done it before because that's the best way to learn.

I don't know anything about guns but I know how to fish and can gut, clean, and prepare fish to eat on my own.

I also know how to do academic, intellectual things that most people in my home don't know how to do. I went to school for a long time and am good at my job. I don't think it's more important than farming or hunting or building houses or digging ditches, but it requires a lot of education and a refined skill set so I think it's good I do it, since not everyone can.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And I can't even begin to tell you how out of touch most DC people are.

Do your neighbors know how to:

Build a fire
Process a deer/ turkey/ game bird
Frame a simple shed
Install a well pump
Clean load and fire a pistol or rifle

Or do .... anything that doesnt cause a traffic jam at Tysons?

And do those people of Greene County know how to take Metro, order a cocktail in a bar, drive on the Beltway, parallel park, network, or appreciate art?

Whatever is your point? It isn’t like those skills are inherently virtuous and as many people live in urban areas as they do rural ones.

This post is why OP probably felt the need to post. Of course in DCUM’s mind THOSE PEOPLE can’t appreciate art. lol

FWIW I grew up in WV and we have to parallel park on our driving tests too, and we have access to art classes in high school like everyone else. I remember going to an Ivy and being treated like a circus animal because I grew up in a tar paper shack. We might not have much but ambition, and I’ve crushed it in life.

What an asinine post.

Who the F cares?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And I can't even begin to tell you how out of touch most DC people are.

Do your neighbors know how to:

Build a fire
Process a deer/ turkey/ game bird
Frame a simple shed
Install a well pump
Clean load and fire a pistol or rifle

Or do .... anything that doesnt cause a traffic jam at Tysons?

And do those people of Greene County know how to take Metro, order a cocktail in a bar, drive on the Beltway, parallel park, network, or appreciate art?

Whatever is your point? It isn’t like those skills are inherently virtuous and as many people live in urban areas as they do rural ones.

I am originally from SE DC and I live out near Greene and there are neighbors that commute to DC everyday. Two hours. Greene is not entirely filled with backwoods creatures who never visit the city.

But out there in Bristol.. ask those folks.

Build a fire, sure. We have frequent fires in the fireplace or the outdoor firepit in our little suburban neighborhood.

The rest of them though? I've never had a moment in my life where I thought, "Man, I wish I knew how to process a turkey" or "Ugh, life would be so much better if I could clean a rifle".

If it ever comes to a point that I need to do those things, I guess I would learn. But so far it hasn't been required for my life's trajectory. My best friend bought a farm during covid and learned a lot in a few short months. If the desire or need is there, the skills are learnable relatively quickly.

I'm guessing I have some skills they don't have, they have some skills I don't have. Hopefully we both have the skillset we need to be happy, healthy, and financially solvent on a daily basis.

I live back in the woods, you see
My woman and the kids and the dogs and me
I got a shotgun, a rifle and a 4-wheel drive
And a country boy can survive, country folks can survive

I can plow a field all day long
I can catch catfish from dusk 'til dawn
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
Ain't too many things these old boys can't do
We grow good ol' tomatoes and homemade wine
And a country boy can survive, country folks can survive

Anonymous wrote:And I can't even begin to tell you how out of touch most DC people are.

Do your neighbors know how to:

Build a fire
Process a deer/ turkey/ game bird
Frame a simple shed
Install a well pump
Clean load and fire a pistol or rifle

Or do .... anything that doesnt cause a traffic jam at Tysons?

I don’t even understand what your psychological malfunction(s) is (are) to feel the need to post this. You are really giving family annihilator when his wife decides she’s finally had it.

Anonymous wrote:Before I even start to build the shed, I need to ask the county for permission to build on my property.

A free man never asks permission.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only DC people could learn to be less pompous and more like kind and decent human beings. Visiting universities outside the DMV (and not in the N.E.) has been eye-opening.

A lot of it is insecurity from hicksville too. So many people Ive met in rural areas are just nasty about people who live in urban areas and calling them awful places as well. Just look at the republican party. You would have thought Portland was a war zone.

Portland IS a shithole, though.

- UO grad and former resident of Portland for 11 years.

Anonymous wrote:And I can't even begin to tell you how out of touch most DC people are.

Do your neighbors know how to:

Build a fire
Process a deer/ turkey/ game bird
Frame a simple shed
Install a well pump
Clean load and fire a pistol or rifle

Or do .... anything that doesnt cause a traffic jam at Tysons?

My husband can do all of that.
We will always live in a city where we do not have to at least not yet.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but can they MAIL MERGE?!?

LOL, I live in DC and that would make me nervous. But I can build a fire in the rain and field-strip a rifle blindfolded. I think that OP makes some valid points, but it's not nearly as mutually-exclusive as implied.

People in Greene who live in the planned developments, which are growing, can’t do these things either.

Not everyone in Greene is a mountain man/woman OP.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know, OP. My team and I completed a 7-hour surgery on a patient Monday to remove several tumors. Can you do that?

Apparently without an integrated supply chain we can't have most of the things we consider essential for modern living.

What I've concluded:

We should stop picking fights with China.

I probably won't make it if there's a zombie apocalypse or something realistically serious like a nuclear war that takes out the internet. Give me a video and some resources, I can pick it up pretty fast.

I have absolutely no need or desire to do those things and I do not admire the ability to do them.
Thanks for the heads up about Greene county. Will avoid it