I know cities. I know the pavement, the crowded houses, the sound of neighbors either through the walls or so close between houses that privacy is a matter of locked doors and back rooms. I know what it’s like to be in the projects, in the subdivision, and in tbe suburb. I’m no stranger to the little set-aside scraps of land they call parks.
But I also know mountain farming, milking cows, slopping hogs, and pulling logs down a mountain with a team of mules. I know churning butter, howing my row, and keeping my eye out for snakes. I know running the mountains following blueticks chasing a coon.
And I also know fishing the stream bordering my property, pulling out smallmouth, and waiting on deer.
I also know that its city folk folk who push to lock up land in government hands, because I’ve seen first hand damned streams creating huge reservoirs that take farms, build roads to nowhere, and impoverish those robbed by government.
So, maybe you have more acres than I do now, or ever have... maybe not.
But that wasn’t the point, was it?
I remain convinced that DC and NYC are concrete chaos in which to raise kids. And convinced that majorities steal the property of the rural folks so they can create playgrounds away from their own ruined landscapes.
IT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE A LIAR, POST CRAP/LIES AND CLAIM THEM TO BE FACTS!
You don't know ANYTHING about NYC nor Chicago and keep proving it, over and over and over again!
HOUSES...in Manhattan? IT IS TO LAUGH! Brownstones yes, outside of Gracie Mansion...NO! And those brownstones cost many millions of dollars, have thick plaster walls ( as do many apartment building in both cities ) which you can NOT hear a sound through; if there was mass murder going on next door! Neither are they ""crowded"...unless you mean that they are close to/abut the next brownstone.
Neither do you know how enormous many of the parks are in NYC and Chicago.
You're a complete "STRANGER" to the factual truth!
You're also blaming vast swaths of people who NEVER even think about, let alone encourage land grabs by the government. Nor do you know or understand just WHAT the ones done by old Slick and wee barry were all about!
Did it ever occur to you that milking cows ( yes, I have done that too ), slopping hogs ( oh YUCK! ), pulling logs down a mountain are WORK and things that don't appeal to most people; not even those who MUST do it...though milking machines have been around for a long, long time now, and slapping those metal things on cows' teats, is about as "exciting" and self-fulfilling, as washing windows.
You're a benighted, blinkered, extremely biased fool, so warped and wrapped up in yourself and your own ideas, you are incapable of seeing any reality.