Country Boys

There's this really good show on pbs called country boys. It is a docudrama of these two high school aged kids living in eastern kansas. It's really eye opening the way other parts of the country live. I mean such poverty. One of the kids lives in a mobile home and there not lke the mobile homes here. Most of the trailers here are around 200k and are used as vacation homes or for people in wheel chairs with easy access. Anyway it just amazed me how behind the times and different life was in that small town. Has anyone else been watching it?

 

Haven't watched it, but I've lived it. Lived in a run down trailer down by the river in Confluence, PA. That's what much of Appalachia is like. Good people, but *shudders* never again - not for me

 

lol lynz....

are you sayin kansas is behind the times?? and where in eastern kansas, are we talkin??

I lived in a mobile home in college for 3 semesters..... it was scary..... especially when the weather got bad. I thought I was going to blow away..

 

I saw an add for it the other night and it looked really interesting, what time/day is it on?

and ya, it is crazy how undeveloped some parts of north america are, I visited a native reserve in northern Quebec that was as bad as what I saw in West Africa. People livin in substandard make shift homes up on cement blocks because of the flooding, because there was no sewage, no running water AND no electricity. The band office and community centre and a few of the homes had there own generators, but that was it...real sad thing was, a few miles away off the reserve was a hydroelectric dam

 

see that's different though you didn't have kids and a wife and live there your whole life on your dad's ssi checks because he has alchohol induced liver disease. That's this one kids story. I forget the town let me see if its on pbs.org hold on.

 

Watch it missy... you are walking on thin ice...

 

It's frontline so it's a series. I was on last night and it will be on tonight but television programming is different for each city. It's like how the npr programming varies from stae to state Here's the link to the show:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/countryboys/

 

well you should bundle up if we're ice fishing you look rather cold in my panties.

 

not everywhere is california.....

 

Ive seen people live in rundown trailers (in my hometown).... I used to deliver to those people all the time... most of the people in that trailer park are involved with meth.... somehow... making it, or selling it, or using it...... its sad, really....... there is even one that is propped up on haybails.....

 

i ment to catch it but didnt ....

 

there are lots of places like that around here... well more so in york county...where i used to live which is on the other side of the susquehanna.

lots of people that lived 5 or 10 miles outside of my town and went to my high school... hmmm, some of the trailors ive been in. *shudders* but i mean.... not everyone has a lot of money.

 

That's my point is that places are just different and it was funny because yesterday my friend called and said her surgeon had a special going. 3 areas of botox or collagen for the price of one cc and area. I was ready to apply for credit and schedule an appoitment and then I saw that show and though what bulshit. This shit isn't real botox isnt real shit is fake, people are fake, most of my friends are fake (literally...no im kidding) and i felt stupid.

 

ya, seeing shit like that defineatly makes you step back and re-analize all the things that make up your world, and how much of it is a waste

 

I did it again it's Kentucky): I'm a blonde, sorry

 

I thought they talked awful weird for kansas.....

 

Ever notice that most are not Happy?

 

sounds like an awful lot of Prince Albert (my dad and that whole side of the family live there)

I think a lot of the reserves here are really awful like that... I mean, yes, they do get a fair bit of money but it is SO not evenly distributed... in a lot of them, the cheif/leader has a really nice house, new car etc and everyone else has homes that are falling apart, that would be condemned if they were in the city, have water that's undrinkable and it's just... scary

I like my cozy home, even if it's a rental

 

Lyns, hon, I've lived in areas like that my entire life. And I have to say that there is a lot to be said for the sense of community and charity you'll find in people that have not much to give, as compared to the richer people that live completely concealed from the poverty that occurs in their own country. *shrugs* You see it as behind the times or substandard, I see it as a bit closer to living within means. Who needs botox? we're all pretty here! *smiles with bubba-teeth*

 

yeah, i watched it tonight. it's weird how some of these shows are really like walking in someone else's shoes. thank God i grew up in the city