(08-24-2020, 06:11 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: I think you and @"Ninurta" should take a tour across NYC, Portland, Chicago, and Minneapolis, and show them how it's done.
I just hope all those people leaving these areas don't move into our Red states and think they can continue their left-leaning ideology. That's what got them into this mess to begin with.
OH..... if it were only so.... My next door neighbor is from the 'Island' Curiously Italian and named 'Tony'...lol Nice guy him and his wife Jo ann. we both live in a rural atmosphere, a place called Cason Old Field, a little area in North Carolina that was subject to a lot of Civil War history. Ok to the point.... so we live out here and the world is flat, round, hexagonal, who cares, this is Mecca for us. Laid back, beautiful and green. I think the world of them. BUT...... the only political conversation I ever had with him and agreed upon was the Supreme Court, and the fact there were nine (9) members, thus you would never reach a stalemate..... in theory. OH, but don't even wisper the name Trump, unless you have an auditory deathwish....
Ok I can bypass all that and get along like always. But they move down here about the same time I moved here, and every little inconvenience was a _ichfest, Cant' get good french bread, no deli's no big liquor stores, crummy restaurants, an inehaustable list....... "shoulda never left New York, this place is a place you come to die"
I'll admit, three or four close neighbors, great friends have passed, but they were in their late 70's - 80's and 90's. We were just lucky to know them, had BBQ's and get togethers, the whole community would show up and entertain and visit late into the warm summer nights. It is great here, No traffic, gas is cheap, the pace is slow, it's Southern Hospitality....... But he is always griping how New York had this and that and how here is so last centure, we ought to ....NY, NY, NY this or that.
No oohooo don't.
So yea...... I let outsiders think we all run around through the woods in bib overalls chasing our sisters stopping at the still and sampling and then snooze like Rumpelstilskin using our hound dog for a pillow, Straw hats, missing teeth, smiling and fiddles. sure, nuf good ol' boys