Rural America

[capt jack]

I bet it's pretty representative of most major urban opinions. Interestingly here, where I live the stats show much of that statement to be true

-average incomes in this region are lower than in the big city
-health care is much less available
-much more heart disease in this area vs the city
-more deaths from accidents and heart attacks due to slower response time from emergency services

All that said, you could not drag me kicking and screaming into the city to live.

May be true, but in rural areas the death rate from crime, drunk drivers, dirty air/water is much lower, and if you are sick or die, your nieghbors know about it and do care.
Jack

 

[tallyho8]

May be true, but in rural areas the death rate from crime, drunk drivers, dirty air/water is much lower.
Jack

I would have to see the stats on drunk drivers to know if that is true. I have a feeling that a greater percentage of rural people are killed by drunk drivers. The city drunks can drive a couple of blocks and be home but the country people come to the city and get drunk then drive a long way home and many have crashed in my front yard on their way home. And it's even worse in dry counties cause they have to drive a lot further to get home.

I feel a lot safer from getting hit by a drunk driver in the city than on a narrow 2 lane country road late at night. Of course, on the country road you don't have to dodge bullets as often.

I don't even want to be buried in the city.

 

[Mike Costello]

Good luck on finding that kid. I had a nephew from Florida visiting last week and he wanted to help bale. He was telling about going to the gym several times a week and how fit he was. 20 years younger than me (he is 30 or so) and he lasted about an hour. Finding a kid that will put down his game boy or cell phone long enough to break a sweat is tough to find.

Dan

Back in my college days, I was driving home for the summer and decided to visit a close friend of mine. He was currently unemployed, so I rode with him to the unemployment office to collect his check. While there, a farmer came in and asked if anyone wanted to earn some money bucking hay. Not one person volunteered. So being a "always broke" college student, I told him I would help him buck hay.
I bucked 450 bales of hay in 104 degree heat that day and being out of shape it was a struggle to say the least! I was determined to stay with it though, and as we put the last bale in the barn he looked at me and said, " I didn't think you had what it took--but I was wrong". Best compliment I ever received--and I didn't arrive home broke!

 

[tommu56]

This is what the City Slickers think of us

"poorer, older, fatter "

I resemble that

tom

 

[N80]

Statistics can say whatever you want them to. Compare 40,000 people on the wrong side of the tracks somehwere in the rust belt like Cleveland with a whole rural county of 40,000 people and see how the stats stack up. As Mark Twain said, there's lies and then there's dam lies and then there's statistics!