Rural Bashing?

[Dftodd]

Another good reason not to live in the city:

The Professional Panhandling Plague | City Journal

That's all over the city I work in. Just made panhandling legal again in the state. Folks came out of the wood work, and always the same people on the same corner looking for handouts. Asked one of them what they did for an income before panhandling became legal. Got a big F you for my troubles

 

[k0ua]

That's all over the city I work in. Just made panhandling legal again in the state. Folks came out of the wood work, and always the same people on the same corner looking for handouts. Asked one of them what they did for an income before panhandling became legal. Got a big F you for my troubles

Vilonia is a nice little town. Spent many an hour working at the school there, terminating fiber optic cable and programing data switches. Are you referring to Conway or North Little Rock?

 

[drizler]

My favorite line is " I'd be afraid living way. OUT THERE in the dark. I just laugh and tell them that the vast majority of criminal riff raff tend to live and ply their trades under those bright city lights. Besides most folks out here are equipped to defend themselves which makes us much less attractive victims. Then there is that infectious disease called the HOA and we want absolutely no part of that insanity. :thumbdown:

 

[PJSprog]

Another good reason not to live in the city:

The Professional Panhandling Plague | City Journal

Panhandling is a full-time job for many people in the city of St. Louis. Had a guy last Friday walk up to my car in a parking lot and ask, "Got any change so I can get a beer?" I said no, of course, but chuckled at his honesty as I pulled away.

 

[ultrarunner]

Pan Handling, people defecating/urinated and sleeping in doorways plus thousands of smash and grab are almost seen as normal these days.

I have to be very careful who rents my home in the county as the entire thinking of a city person is different than someone with country roots.

My Dairy Farm Grandparents were always a little stand offish of city people... too many of their friends had issues with land sales, etc...

What is that song... A Country Boy will Survive?

PS... I had a home in the city for rent but it was at the city limit with a rural feel and had a family that really seemed interested and checked out great... then several wild turkeys meander up to the back porch and they were out of their in a New York minute!

 

[k0ua]

Pan Handling, people defecating/urinated and sleeping in doorways plus thousands of smash and grab are almost seen as normal these days.

I have to be very careful who rents my home in the county as the entire thinking of a city person is different than someone with country roots.

My Dairy Farm Grandparents were always a little stand offish of city people... too many of their friends had issues with land sales, etc...

What is that song... A Country Boy will Survive?

PS... I had a home in the city for rent but it was at the city limit with a rural feel and had a family that really seemed interested and checked out great... then several wild turkeys meander up to the back porch and they were out of their in a New York minute!

Wow, wild turkeys! Now those things are really mean. :laughing: I was on the back deck a few days ago, and a group of turkey mommas with their young ones wandered up out of the woods. Picking for bugs and ticks I suppose. I was happy to see them. Nothing sounds neater than when you are sitting in your deer stand in the early morning and the turkeys come off of their roost and glide by with their wing feathers making that unique buzzing sound as they glide by. Sounds like a flight of B52's.

 

[Dftodd]

Vilonia is a nice little town. Spent many an hour working at the school there, terminating fiber optic cable and programing data switches. Are you referring to Conway or North Little Rock?

Yes I was referring to Conway. Depending on which school, and which route you took to get there, then you passed anywhere from 1/2 mile to 2/10 of a mile from my house if you were staying in Conway.

Wife and I were doing the tourist thing in your neck of the woods last month. Stayed in the campground next to the bass pro shop in Branson. Actually gonna be passing through there again next month on our way up to Osage Beach. Looking at some property near there that my wife is interested in.

 

[rbstern]

My reply is usually "Out here I can ride my lawnmower around naked while firing a rifle into the air and yelling MERICA! and there is no one to care"

Completely unrealistic: You didn't mention beer.

 

[k0ua]

Yes I was referring to Conway. Depending on which school, and which route you took to get there, then you passed anywhere from 1/2 mile to 2/10 of a mile from my house if you were staying in Conway.

Wife and I were doing the tourist thing in your neck of the woods last month. Stayed in the campground next to the bass pro shop in Branson. Actually gonna be passing through there again next month on our way up to Osage Beach. Looking at some property near there that my wife is interested in.

Yep, stayed in Conway. I think it was Hwy 64 to get to Vilonia? Anyway just a short drive each morning. I used to work for Windstream, and was based in Harrison. I live up by the Northwest edge of Branson. Just out of town, but close enough to have cable and high speed broadband!

 

[Wakey]

Do you ever have (perhaps well intentioned?) friends or acquaintances bash rural living -- to you or in front of you?

No. haha

Fun thread.