darn city slickers :)

Sometimes I just seem to blend in better with the rural folk. There are things I can do there that the city crowd would flip out over. Maybe the urban area people are a little too rule-oriented? Not to say that the city is necessarily bad, but people there sometimes seem to get awfully uptight about trivial things that those elsewhere wouldn't care about.

So what's your gripe about the urban areas?

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I just moved from a farming community of about 20k to San Antonio, and I can say that it's much harder, believe it or not, to meet people in the cities. Country folk jump all over new people to make them welcome, not that city slickers arn't welcoming at all, but country people make it a point to bring in new residents.

 

people in the country are all up in each others business. you spill red wine on your white carpet and everyone knows about it oh lawd

 

tis true... part of why i moved after i got in trouble, that and money constraints

 

in the city you can get a falafel at 4 in the morning

 

i just came from a party where ten 30-year-old men had absolutely no idea how to start a fire.

that's a big fucking farming community.

 

maybe 20k was big 60 years ago...today it's small.

 

that's basically the size of sandusky...

that's the big city where i'm from, complete with its own ghettos and everything.


yeah, it's small if you're comparing it to chicago, but we're talking farming communities here.

 

giiiiiirlllllll, dont you know it

 

well 15K was employed by the airforce base that is there, so... 5k normal people living in the town itself.... sorry i wasn't more specific.

 

LOL,seriously,on another board there are constantly threads on peoples attempts at building a fire. more often than not they wind up epic fails.

its a sad sad day when red blooded american men spend hours on the web researching how to build a fire,go out and attempt it on their own and fail.

i sincerely hope you were the eleventh man that shoved all the idiots aside and showed them how its done..

 

Well, I'm not american, but I cut myself chopping garlic yesterday and I am red blooded....

I completely agree with you. Starting a fire really is one of the more straightforward things. I mean, things catch fire accidentally all the time and some people can't get one going with a concerted group effort? I think they're just not trying hard enough.

 

Yeah, in the country it's called 'caring' for the most part. But, there are those that are just nosey all the time. You'll have those anywhere you go.

My mother (she was like this) lived across from my brother. She could see his window from her livingroom. He got up and closed the blinds and my mother called and asked him, 'why did you close the blinds?' lol

 

well, i would call it a military community then, but ok, i can at least see where you're coming from now... :cheers2:

yeah, they wouldn't even listen to my advice so i did have to literally shove them aside to do it.

 

Talk to Cherea about that.

 

for the most part it was, but it also had the highest cotton output in the state, the county not the town itself. The biggest building in the town was Wal-mart, everything revolved around it lol.

 

How did you do it? (start the fire, not shove them).

 

What a man, right ?! :svengo:

 

That's why I live in a small town (6000) but have a condo in the city (Seattle)

 

I love big cities.