Big Cities vs. Rural Life

It depends on the city you look at some of the democrat run cities and they look like shit vs rural life or cities run by conservatives the crime rate and other problems are far less. I personally prefer rural life and live in a small town where not much happens.

I grew up in the LA region that’s Los Angeles to be clear.  LA was and still is a shit hole, but I lived in Riverside a big city nonetheless and it was a nice place to live and grow-up. 40 miles from LA what a difference, then the same Political Party who controlled and destroyed LA took control of Riverside, I have talked to many friends and family still there. Most are trying to move because it is now a shit hole as well.

It is not the city, it is who runs it.

Now I live in a more Rural city in Arkansas, same scenario here, my town is very nice, easy going republican controlled… right down the road is Fayetteville, yup that one the one who beat LSU last year. It has turned in to a shit hole, Democrat Controlled. Hell they screwed up so bad they lost Bikes Blues and BBQ’s to my city. They went woke and are going broke.

It is not the city, it is who runs it.

I prefer smaller cities or rural. Where I live now has about 58,000. It’s still more leftists here, but my job is here, which I am not willing to give up, so I deal with it. It’s a college town as well, but run by leftists. There is an ordinance to have NO strip clubs here, but they funded a Trans-Activism center downtown. So, you think about how ridiculous that is. Welcome to Oregon. A state with very beautiful scenery, but since the late 80’s has slowly been taken over by the left, who seem to have moved up from California to ruin THIS state as well. It’s it wonderful that people move out of blue states to escape the lunacy, but bring their ways with them? Yep, it’s going to happen to Texas now. They never learn.

So, I used to live in Portland, Oregon. I moved away in 2010. It has some issues then but wasn’t too bad. Now it is a cesspool and overrun by homeless, corruption, and crime. Yep, it’s blue. All one has to have done is watch/read the news the past few years to know that. Portland has been in the news a lot the past few years. ANTIFA has taken it over. I used to live RIGHT downtown, a few times. Now it has areas boarded up and even the shopping mall downtown has the windows boarded and a boarded up enclosed entrance. There is BLM spray painted everywhere and all the leftist signs all over the place. I was recently there and saw homeless people’s cars parked everywhere with trash piled up and I even saw a guy with his car up on blocks working on it RIGHT THERE on the side of the freakin’ road. It NEVER used to be even close to that 12 years ago. There were always gutter punks downtown and such, but it’s just utterly ridiculous now. Literally tents one block from the train/bus station.

@Vknid, It is when they get poorly run.

Poorly run time after time after time is by Democrat leaders. The reason is clear (they constantly want to do two things, SPEND money on pet projects that do not benefit the majority only the minority and they want to push social agenda that again is in the minority).

It is Ideology, The democrats today are NOT the party of JFK, He would be a Republican today. They are now the party of  (Dr. Feelgood) because I cannot honestly look at you and say they are even Communist in its true form. Look at the things they are in support of ( all the social causes and acronyms of sex ) they place those things above the needs of the Community as a whole. When you put the needs of the Minority ahead of the Majority the Majority will suffer.

Spock said it best: “Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” The democrats believe the needs “or wants” of the Few outweigh the needs of the many. We have seen for decades what happens with those beliefs in how to govern.

Small towns or “rural” if you will have no time for special pet projects or social causes, they are to busy trying to provide for all in the community to the best of their ability. Some are democrat run (your fathers democrats) some republican) But none are (Dr. Feelgoods) the party of the Dr. would be ran out of those towns.

I actually spent some time looking for Republican ran cities that would be an equal comparison in failure. I couldn’t. But I did find one of the Largest Cities on the planet to show in compare….. NYC, For decades under Democrat control, crime out of control, homelessness out of control, trash and really all infrastructure out of control. Then came Rudy and he cleaned it up in only a few short years. Then after he left they put back in Democrats and look where it is today.

So it is not Rural vs City, it is management.

Now when we talk about quality of life, Rural wins hands down, you simply have more room to breath and spread your wings outside of the concrete jungles. I have to laugh every time people from Cali come visit here as we pass Million dollar homes then a Mall and all the sudden a Pasture with Cows in it, they always are shocked to see the cows and then on the other side more houses. We even have a Shetland that lives right on the corner of the mall, he sometimes goes walking through it and no one thinks twice about seeing Harvey, he is just part of it. Even better than that, we have signs around town (GOOSE CROSSING) Yes and area of the road geese cross the road. No one bats an eye at it, they just slow down or stop when the geese cross (wild Canadian geese”.

That is a great analogy of Rural, I can tell you I have so many people from the cities have no clue about Life… And by that I mean the Cycle and Harmony, when they think for instance Hunting and Fishing they only see the Death part of it. They have no clue to the Billion of dollars spent by sportmen on preserving it and protecting it.

When you are brought up in and around nature your perspective of just how small you really are comes in to a better focus and how much we need each other, anothe example if you will. The tail of two cities; Joplin destroyed by an ef5 tornado in the news only a short time because the people helped each other and have rebuilt/still rebuilding quietly living…. New Orleans we still hear about Katrina and the bad and problems etc etc… Country town just does what has to without the press or the poor me.

@Blood.Ranger

There are people in all areas who are very wise and very foolish. Common since is more a trait of intelligence than anything else, combine it with actually Learning from Life experiences and you can have a person smarter than Einstein. Same person who refuses to use common since and thinks they can keep doing the same thing over and over and get a different result and you have insanity or BUBBA.

Then you have a special group who think they are above the rules of the rest of us, oh they are very smart, right up to the point they get caught. Then I would call them very dumb.

I live on the outer edge of a city in the UK, so I’ve had the benefit of both worlds: I’m seven miles from the city centre and seven minutes’s drive from the Dartmoor National Park. I’m happiest on the moors.

The city is grimy and the council is determined to put up the ugliest buildings on every patch of green land in the city limits. It’s not like they build apartment blocks: we get ugly, low-level boxes with tiny windows and no basements in the suburbs and ugly shopping centres in the city centre. At 6pm, everyone leaves the city centre and because they haven’t thought in terms of blending retail and residential, you have empty high streets.

I’ll move out to one of the small towns on the moors in a few years’ time. I lived in London for 12 years. Best advice: avoid it like the plague!