Why the hell do country people think they're soooo great?

[HEyHEY]

I was ovderhearing a converstaion with my coworker and her friend who said.
"Mary's kids are up for the weekend, and you know they're city kids so they don't realize that they can go to the river or ride their bikes instead of sitting inside all day."

FUCK YOU LADY.

I grew up in the city and did ALLLLL those SAME things you mentioned...it's not like we don't have bikes and places to swim in the city. Plus..... I was rarely home as a kid because if I wasn't playing in the woods or FISHING in the ocean (mind you for three headed fish) I was in town getting into mischief.

Friggin country folk just can't get over their little complex about city people.

[Dookus]

1. It's an inferiority complex

they KNOW kids in cities are exposed to so much more than their kids.

[HEyHEY]

2. Yeah, plus their kids can't use a butterfly knife or boost a car!

That's the other thing....they think cities are SOOOOO dangerous.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. Or score heroin on moment's notice....

Geez.

[HEyHEY]

4. Excatly

I'll take a syringe of H to a bike ride any day

[cally]

5. Thank you

These comments are insane. I despise the deification of country life. I'm fine thank you and I never lived a country life.

[HEyHEY]

12. And get this

We have a deer problem in this little shithole. So, I was at a council meeting the other day and one of the councillors actually tried to BLAME it on people moving up from the city and feeding the deer because they aren't used to them and blah balh blah..


OKAY BIATCH WHERE I GREW UP I SAW DEER JUST AS OFTEN AS I DO HERE!!! AND I SAW MORE BEARS THAN I HAVE HERE!!!!!

THey think they live in some kinda animal sanctuary where the last of all species live

[cally]

17. Deer, did you say deer!

We have a huge problem with deer. Whole nurseries concentrate on plants that deer don't like. Nothing really works. We can't control the deers. I live in liberalville. I bet we have more deer than you do....sadly.

[HEyHEY]

20. It's a huge problem here.... people are demanding a cull

Only because they won't have to pull the trigger

[Cobia]

6. Hey city slickers stink

Do you know how to tickle a trout?

We get too many slickers moving our area and it is no longer country.

[HEyHEY]

8. THAT THE ATTITUDE I MEAN!!!!

Without us, you country folk would just be a buncha people on a lifelong camping trip

[Cobia]

11. And we would like it that way

We like our slow pace of life

[dorktv]

7. Well they are a dying breed.

[Nite Owl]

9. I grew up in the city, NYC

and the best thing was you could go places without being driven. Just get on a bus or train and go where you wanted.

[Cobia]

10. And why do city slickers want to change country folk?

Why are they always calling the police on hunters or whining about the smell of cow poop?

[HEyHEY]

13. We don't want to change you that's the thing

Somehow country folk got it in their heads that we actually give a shit about them or how they live their lives.... but we don't! I can't figure why it happened!? :-)

[Cobia]

14. Some do

We have our no goods who move from the city to the country and look down at us "rednecks"\

There are also some cool people who move from the city.

I guess they couldn't take city life anymore

[HEyHEY]

15. Yeah, but we get the same thing

The country people who move to the city and complain about "The Air" and "traffic" and "Hookers propositioning my husband"

[Cobia]

16. Then we will call it even

Peace :)

[HEyHEY]

19. deal

;-)

[tarkus]

23. I don't think it is even... (sorry, i am kind of ranting)

I think that overall, country people do need to change. When I go into the country, I am overwhelmed by the overall reactionary spirit that prevails there. The people are against gun control and anti- cigarette and almost anything that prevents them from doing anything and everything that they want to do on their little farm. Ug. I know that the country people on this board are probably fairly liberal minded, but you really need to wake up your redneck neighbors and tell them that the world is changing and if they dont like it they should just... I don't know. Leave or something.

[stranger_with_candy]

18. I grew up on a farm in PA

within the past 10 years the suburbs of philly have creeped within miles of my family's farm. They still run it but it's a challenge to say the least. I love city life, but i also have great memories of growing up in the country. My parents run a dairy farm and still bottle the milk and sell it at their store so the more people move into the area = more milk customers. I do agree with what you're saying... most country folk HATE city people moving in. Disrupts things for sure. Having lived in country and city, both have their advantages. Not so sure they should try to mix.

[FioneMair]

21. Me Too!

I grew up in Bucks County. Born and raised there and moved to North Dakota and now I live in Minnesota. My husband is from New Jersey. We live in a very small town and love it here. But, we do go to the Twin Cities a lot because we love the big city as well,
I go home to Bucks 2x a year so my 5 year old can visit his relatives. I can't even believe how the farmland is just gone. I get so sad and sentimental, as many of my friends with whom I grew up were from farming families. Many of my fondest memories are from hanging out at the farms. Now, the farms are all sold, save a few

[stranger_with_candy]

22. Yes

My parent's farm is the only one still operating in that area.. where in Bucks are you from? I grew up just north of Doylestown.

[markses]

24. Brooklyn checking in

I also lived in the country in upstate NY for awhile.

Country people are resentful, for the most part. They can only derive their own goodness from the "worse-ness" of others. So, they need the city folks as their little foils. The whole operation is pathetic, really. I never gave a second thought to how the folks I lived around in the country lived. It was like, whatever, man. You learn that in Brooklyn. But these people never let up with the big city this and the big city that. Is that how you park in the big city? Is that how you order a beer in the big city? etc, etc, etc. Then, there was the sly "positive" move: "You see, we country folks take care of our neighbors!" Why, cuz the jackass down the hill mysteriously shows up at dinnertime every night? Please. He's a grifter and you're a mark. Same anywhere. You wanna call that "taking care of your neighbors" (for the sole purpose, of course, of insinuating that people in cities don't take care of their neighbors), fine.

The best part about it was that I'd tasted both, while they critiqued one they'd never tasted. Few had ever been to NYC, or had only gone on a class weekend trip, or to a Broadway show, etc. (How anyone could get a bad impression of NYC from the tourist fantasy land of Midtown, I'll never guess, but whatever) while I lived in the straight up country for three years, and grew up in Brooklyn.

I found the whole attitude mysterious, and not at all "hospitable," despite the pretensions of "friendliness." The whole slow-living bit is a sham. More like "angry living," for imagined sleights.

[HEyHEY]

25. Wow, right on the mark

YEah, I always laugh at the "We like to know our neighbours" remarks. I knew EVERYONE in my area of town. And since livin in this town, not one neighbour has tried to "Know" me. They seem resentful and untrusting of anyone not from here. Part of the breeding of hatred for outsiders.
Plus again with neighbours...we always took care of anyone who needed help.

[alphafemale]

26. Perspective is everything. But Country/CityFolk can both get irritating -

- when they each play their "Superior" routine.

This was covered eons ago in a tale involving mice.

[UdoKier]

27. It's also a LIE.

My family is from the backwater of Bowie, Texas, and all they do is sit on their huge asses and watch sports on TV.

Here in San Francisco, we have Golden Gate Park, with hills to climb, waterfalls, places to bicycle, and any other number of wonderful venues for outdoor activity. People are much more active here than in Texas. Hell, half the people in Bowie still SMOKE! :puke:


Also, I think they're mad that everybody who can gets the hell out of town when they hit 18 and never come back. The remaining people are bitter that their biggest cultural event is a trip to the mall in Dallas.