Why Small-town Americans are backwards and Cities are the future

Traffic, drugs, crime, homelessness, cost of living, beggars, and other general jackassery all make the top 10.

 

Self serving poppycock. A failure to embrace progressivism is a mark of logical thought. Most of Americas largest cities are disaster zones made so by so-called progressive ideas. If city folk were actually logical they'd have long ago abandoned ideas that obviously don't make most people's lives better.

 

Not quite...Sometimes either your born in a city and find urban life very very easy afterword, or your invited to live in the city (due to outpacing urban life) and find life difficult.
Then there is the inbetween...but yea..if you enjoy making money city is the answer.

 

Too bad there isn't a "dislike" button.

Newsflash...there are good and bad things about cities AND rural areas...

We should be talking about our similarities not our differences...because we are all one people

 

Yes...Traffic is a mother F**ker..Iv since moved from DC due to this...and I don't miss it...the knowledge and patience iv learned from being world wide though...I can see why people find urban living to be boring....yet stable...The people I now work around are such idiots...it makes me look like a super star when ever I just show up to work...It's gotten to the point I'm paid to just give advice

The trick is to make the "Alpha", seem like it is their idea to do something...it's quite funny when you stop providing ideas and see crap go all wrong.

 

'Paddle faster, I hear banjos'.

 

Same reasons I moved from London to a small city in the far West. Peace, quiet, interesting farming-related aromas, and my house costs around 50% less than it would in London.
http://www.world-guides.com/europe/england/devon/exeter/

 

The exodus from large urban areas is hard to overlook. So is the fact that so many of the cities experiencing the most drastic migrations out of their urban centers are Democratically controlled municipalities. It's rather cyclical in that young, childless professionals, prefer urban life styles early on. Later whem marriage and children are considered, suburban living becomes more appealing. Dems try and keep subsidized housing centered within their staunch congressional districts for obvious reasons, and more obvious consequences. Declaring their cities as sanctuaries is an act of political necessity, not social justice.

 

small towns have been fading for a century. Interstates, chain stores, the auto and farm consolidation killed them.

 

Fibber. You moved there so you could pork up on all that clotted cream

...I don't blame you though.

 

In a nutshell....City people are far more likely to sell their liberty to government control. Individually they like to get lost in the masses where they can hide their quirky behavior. They resent those that enjoy the freedom and independence of living in the open and being accountable to their neighbor. They desire to harness those freedom lovers with their own restricted living by forcing their restrictions on others. It must be quite a miserable life.

 

That has got to be the dumbest conclusion one could reach if the person truly has reasonable experience on both sides.

 

Ummm..there's no "quirky behavior" in rural America?

Have you ever BEEN to rural America

 

some truth about rural poverty http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/dispatch/pov_myths.htm there is however something of a movement to small towns by first time home owners to escape big city congestion and high real estate prices and by retiring boomers looking for cheap real estate.

 

I grew up and was raised in a small town. I continue to live in a small town. I started 3 businesses in that same small town selling 2 of them to locals that live in that small town. Small town vs. a big city? Small town any day! A great place to work, live and raise a family.

 

To each their own...I bet you prolly enjoy working 24/7...us big city folk enjoy making that same dough in less time, an dislike echo chambers...small towns tend to be just that.

I gotta say though the stress level has to be less...nothing you people do actually matters.

Kidding. I love farm raised food.

 

Started my first business right out of college. Been self employed my entire life. No bosses. Set my own hours. Sold 2 businesses I started. Made a boat load of money and retired at 47. My son manages my third business. No stress level at all.

Not kidding. Me and the wife once in a great while go to the big city for dinner.

 

Loud mouthed and rude is not synonymous with witty

 

For me it's 20 miles to the nearest town with a population of 20,000.

 

It is a lot easier to own the horse in a one horse town than you would think.

 

To quote this pile of crap would give it space it doesn't deserve. While city dwellers are more knowledgeable about urban culture that is really not an indication of intelligence they are just more exposed to that lifestyle. In terms of numbers there are far more genuinely stupid people living in urban areas than rural areas. Rural people tend to be more self determined and self sufficient than those whose personal identities are ineluctbly linked to their urban digs. City dwellers are far more influenced by worthless popular culture and lemming like in their political attitudes. Rural people tend to be more independent and free thinking. Rural people are far more connected to community and far less dependent on government. Many great minds have come from small towns, hamlets and villages Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, NikolaTesla, Socrates, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Goddard, Gregor Mendel, Thomas Edison and many more have hailed from small towns.

 

It's the posters way of convincing himself that he is smart

 

That's interesting. I don't live in the city and my wife and I both make good money.

The money I get to keep in disposable income is also much higher as a percentage of my income.

 

Jesus Christ people. The divisiveness needs to stop. Neither city living nor rural living i inherently better, they're just different

 

Perhaps at one time. Look at all the counties won that are red and compare them to blue. It's oil and water Rural vrs. population density. Our Republic vrs. Marxism.