You're preaching to the choir, my friend. Why do you think I moved there?
Ultimately it wasn't the right balance of priorities for me. No need to take offense though. I'm sure you're one of those people who either hates NYC or says "great place to visit, but I'd never want to live there". Doesn't bother me :)
And yeah, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but rural Tennessee is full of "backwards hicks". Doesn't make them bad people but our views do not align and I don't want to live in that culture any more than they (you?) want to move the Upper West Side.
I don't think multigenerational poverty gives these "hicks" you speak of the choice to move the the Upper West Side even if they wanted. They don't choose their life anymore than the urban poor does
Not the point. And I didn't call them "hicks", I was just responding to the comment using their term (hence the quotes).
I'm surprised that it comes as news to some people that the political views and lifestyle preferences of people living in rural Tennessee are starkly different from those of people living in Manhattan. Or that while we can and should be civil with people elsewhere geographically and politically, people with diametrically opposed views and value systems are rarely all that eager to spend their lives together.
Yeah. I prefer trees to people. I'd take long distances between things and the occasional preachy christian or hick over city problems any day. I don't think I'm missing anything by drinking $1 gas station coffee and buying my bread at Walmart instead of Whole Paycheck.
City people should stay in the cities and country people should stay in the country and as long as neither group tells the other how to live we should be fine.
of course overwhelmingly we are beset by the tyranny of the increasingly small minority of "country people" telling us how to live due to how the senate and house are setup.
The rural Tennessee isn't really the part you should worry about. It's suburban Tennessee. The suburb culture throughout the state is basically white supremacist.
Ultimately it wasn't the right balance of priorities for me. No need to take offense though. I'm sure you're one of those people who either hates NYC or says "great place to visit, but I'd never want to live there". Doesn't bother me :)
And yeah, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but rural Tennessee is full of "backwards hicks". Doesn't make them bad people but our views do not align and I don't want to live in that culture any more than they (you?) want to move the Upper West Side.