Rural Bashing?
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buckeyefarmer
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In MD they fight rural living with a program called "smart growth". They encourage city box living, and try to keep people from building in the country, by passing zoning restrictions, septic restrictions, and limiting rural development.
Oaktree
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Reminds me of something that happened to me maybe 40 years ago. I was working as a field service tech, used to get job offers from customers fairly often. One in a very large city was quite persistent...every time I was there on a service call the supervisor would ask if I would come to work for them, one time even offering to double my salary. Always politely declined. One time he asked me why. I told him I had a house on 8 acres on the side of a mountain in New Hampshire. Turns out he was a country boy himself, and we spent some time talking about how much the city sucks.
Later he told me that after I'd left, his boss asked him if he'd offered me a job, he replied he had but I'd turned it down. Boss asked if I'd given a reason, and he relayed my response. Boss thought about it a minute and said that if he had 8 acres in N.H. he wouldn't want to move there either!
Don't think I've ever experienced rural bashing, a couple city friends have commented how it's a completely different world up here.
oosik
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We lived for a year "in the bush" in rural Alaska. It was 87 miles to the nearest town. The last twelve miles was by ATV because there was no road. We lived in a cabin we had built. We sold the cabin, moved down here and set up operations. That was a real experience in "country living".
BTW - during our year in the bush we only went into town twice - so very little chance for rural bashing. We only had one friend visit once - most were afraid to make the trip.
BTW - during our year in the bush we only went into town twice - so very little chance for rural bashing. We only had one friend visit once - most were afraid to make the trip.
Redneck in training
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I have a story about eggs. When still living in Czechoslovakia we had a cottage by a lake. While there we used to buy milk and eggs from a family living in the nearby village. The milk was fresh still warm from the cow and the eggs were from the chicken running free in the backyard picking bugs and seeds. Based on what the chicken ate the yolk was quite red. One time we had my wife friends visiting and my wife told them about farm eggs and how great they were. Since we had about extra dozen in the fridge my wife gave them to the city folks. Some time later she again met her friend and asked if they liked the eggs. The woman said that she doesn't want to offend her because all the eggs were bad and she had to throw them away. When my wife asked what was wrong her friend said the yolk was red. She was clueless because she always had store bought eggs with yolk almost white from chicken concentration camp.
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Blstr88
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I for one am glad most people prefer city living...if they all knew how much better country living was they'd all move out into the country and we'd be overcrowded!
Larry Caldwell
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Long waits for ambulance and EMTs is why rural people die younger.
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My Grandmother would bake the best strudel and pastries on her wood/gas wedgewood stove...
Nothing on the farm was treated or sprayed with pesticide or commercial fertilizer...
I remember her at the kitchen table with a bucket of apples and cutting out the all the bad parts for her strudel and her apples had the best flavor. The "Bad" parts went to the pigs.
One of my friends was visiting and said it was the best strudel he ever had and my Grandmother offered to bake him one to take back to the city...
We went to pick the apples and he said there was not a good one to be found... farm produce without pesticide may not "Look" perfect and that is what he wanted... only perfect fruit.
flyerdan
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There will always be a segment that will denigrate any choices or ideologies that don't conform to what they think is normal, sometimes due to an inability to comprehend unfamiliar concepts, other times just due to being a massive knobhead. One could speculate that the Rural Purge of nearly fifty years ago led to tacit approval of disrespect for lifestyles that strayed from the urban mainstream. Not surprisingly, a lot of the shows referenced have enjoyed a resurgence on outlets such as Antenna TV due to the network offerings of late being foul enough to make a buzzard puke.