Everybody goes to private school, so it is quite expensive if you have kids. But if you want to have your kids go to private school, you need a large city to support competition between them.
Nearly everybody I know has a pretty prestigious education: Harvard, Pepperdine, the Sorbonne in France, Oberlin, Amherst, Georgetown, Duke, Tel Aviv University, and King’s College in London - to name a few. I rarely ran into anybody educated when I lived the small town I was born in!
I liked small towns before I was exposed to the city. Small towns are stifling. There is energy - the energy of commerce - vibrating off the windows of every tall building in the big city. The volitional power of the city is awesome!
I enjoy our civilization.
Now will riots change all this? I do not know, but I hope not! I might visit my parents on election day, after absentee voting.
“Nearly everybody I know has a pretty prestigious education: Harvard, Pepperdine, the Sorbonne in France, Oberlin, Amherst, Georgetown, Duke, Tel Aviv University, and King’s College in London - to name a few. I rarely ran into anybody educated when I lived the small town I was born in!”
I think you mean”——the small town in which I was born”
Your new friends would be shocked at the grammar——just shocked.
Well, my goodness. Aren’t you just country come to town.
Your opinion will likely change, should your emotional liberation include procreation as well as being accountable for having done so.
“Now will riots change all this? I do not know, but I hope not! I might visit my parents on election day, after absentee voting.”
we are far out enough and the closer in suburbs provide a buffer zone for the zombies plus our subdivision is filled with ex-mil that like shooting as much as I do. But, we still have similar plans to skidaddle if it appears it’ll sour.
Did you forget the “/S”?
ROTFLOL!!
Snort...chuckle...snicker...
Oh wait...you’re being sarcastic, right? right?
I lasted 10 years before it drove me nuts, but I didn't actually move until I had been in the city for 20 years.
I am now in a small town where everybody knows everything about anything that I do and I see the charm in that. It takes me an hour to go to the grocery store to get a gallon of milk because, down every aisle, there is a conversation with somebody I know.
But if my vehicle were to break down on the road, I can think of 15 people right now that would drop whatever they were doing and come to help me. As you age you value things differently, as I have come full circle in my life of travels and am happy being in the small town place.
This must happen to a lot of people like me because in my small town, my hunting buddies are doctors, lawyers, pilots, farmers, and business owners of all kinds, and we have a very high number of millionaires.
To dig deeper into what you touched upon here, you really need to read a book called "Class" by Paul Fussell. I read it years ago and it was an eye opener. I finally understood why I had been annoyed by certian types of people. After reading it, you will realize that you are not bothered by small town people, or even less educated people (although this plays into it a little), but it is really "prole" behavior that you are adverse to. It will be worth your time.
“Nearly everybody I know has a pretty prestigious education: Harvard, Pepperdine, the Sorbonne in France, Oberlin, Amherst, Georgetown, Duke, Tel Aviv University, and King’s College in London - to name a few. I rarely ran into anybody educated when I lived the small town I was born in!”
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BFD.
Your highly educated friends would be the first to implode during a crisis. Bobby Brooks bow-ties and PhD’s don’t mean shit when you’re hungry and have to actually hunt for food.
Their definition of being hungry is being late for dinner or missing breakfast.
Do all of us uneducated country-folk a favor and stay right where you are.
You must be very young. My daughter is in love with NYC, she is 16.. My whole family ran out of NYC. My parents were born and raised on the lower east side and I spent 28 years there and in Yonkers. After living in the country for the last 18 years I don’t miss paying all the taxes and hanging out with snobs from other states who have really changed NYC and not for the better.
I live in a community like that. AND I can’t wait to get out.
People are so educated they need help to do everything that counts in life. Common sense, intelligence and education are not related.
Were you being sarcastic?
You can have 'em.
The people are better educated,
But not necessarily in anything worthwhile ... and frequently lacking in common sense.
everybody is very friendly
Especially when playing "Knockout King" ... it's such lovely interaction with total strangers.
nd there is lots of stuff to do.
Like get mugged, robbed or raped.
You can walk anywhere you want to go eat, shop or whatever.
And have to, because you can't afford a place to keep a car.
The night life is interesting.
Yes, drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, bums, pornography shops, and wandering gangs of yoots are just fascinating.
You can find better business connections,
Yes, lots and lots of folks in the pharmaceutical business ... cash only, of course.
there are very high concentrations of millionaires. There are a lot of liberals too...
And a surprising connection between them. You also find a very high concentration of professional busybodies paid by your tax money.
Everybody goes to private school,
Yeah, except of course the teeming masses incarcerated in prisons labeled "So-and-so Elementary School" or PS #666.
But if you want to have your kids go to private school, you need a large city to support competition between them.
False.
Nearly everybody I know has a pretty prestigious education:
Nearly everybody I know has a practical and productive education, many of them are military veterans. I find their company and their conversation much more sane, intelligent, and grounded in fact than the drivel spewing from the mouths of Ivy League fools.
I liked small towns before I was exposed to the city.
Every time I go to the city, I realize first that everyone there is insane, and second that if I lived there any length of time, I would be insane too.
The volitional power of the city is awesome!
Yes, indeed, it's a real Triumph of the Will.
I enjoy our civilization.
Our civilisation is being destroyed by these oh-so-brilliant, prestigiously educated urban poofters with whom you love hobnobbing.
Small towns are stifling
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Your opinion does not make it fact.
what on earth are you harping on about?
Cities have better more educated people.
Funny you say that because the usual left wing loons say the exact thing and then pat each other on the back whilst telling each other how smart they are and others are stupid.
Liberals are known for that .
What planet do you live on?