From: jrw@aracnet.com   
      
   On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:50:38 -0500, Jim  wrote:   
      
   >John Gilmer wrote:   
   >>   
   >[....]   
   >>   
   >> We used to have friends who came from Iowa.   They told us that typically   
   >> each season a "city person" freezes to death while attempting to walk to an   
   >> apparently nearby "farmhouse."   
   >   
   >city people are very different from persons raised up in a rural   
   >environment.   back some years ago when my area was a rural area   
   >with no relocated city people and none of the negative effects   
   >brought on by relocated city people, we had a much better way of   
   >life with a lot less things to develop a tolerance for.   
      
   Jim, m'boy, you've got an idyllic view of things.   
      
   Out here where I live, some of the biggest problems come from some   
   rural folks of the poorer ilk.  In some cases, the relocated city   
   people have managed to assimilate and become more rural than their   
   original neighbors (the idyllic pre-urban invasion mythos is very   
   common, but at least here in the West, those rural folks came here   
   from somewhere not all that recently).   
      
   Exceptions can be made for ex-Californians in Oregon--well, okay,   
   ex-southern Californians.   
      
   >take for example, trash and city people.  city people have such   
   >little regard for the environment and the natural beauty of their   
   >surroundings they'll toss their fast food wrappers down just as   
   >soon as they're finished with their double chin crap food.  the   
   >problem of trash piling up produced the resulting need for a machine   
   >to be invented called the street sweeper.  a large high capacity   
   >powerful machine capable of taking on the enormous miserable task   
   >of cleaning up behind city people.   
      
   Heh.  Around here, I'm more likely to see disrespect toward the   
   environment from some of those ruralites from a certain economic   
   background than their urban counterparts, who tend to live lightly   
   upon their environment.   
      
   >it'd be really nice if we'd had a law stating how city people are   
   >prohibited from relocating to a rural environment.  something along   
   >the lines of: no you were born in a city and therefore you must   
   >continue your existence in a city and are thus restricted from   
   >relocating outside of the city. this restriction is for the sake of   
   >your own safety since you'd only attempt to walk to an apparent nearby   
   >farmhouse and end up freezing to death and thereby depriving us, your   
   >governing betters, of your tax paying potential.   
      
   Thus condemning most folks to a life in the city, even those raised   
   rurally but who were born in a city due to malpractice premiums   
   forcing doctors out of ob/gyn practices in rural areas.   
      
   jrw   
      
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