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And a democrat (same thing) joined the communist party in 1934 and also a confirmed pole-smoker..

They are there to plant seeds. Nothing more.

Well, then maybe it'll keep them city-slickers in the city..... leaving us 'rural' folks alone.. (wishful)..

I passed one pick-up truck and no cars in 40 miles the other day. The traffic here is getting just too much.

Bull [bleep]! If I had to live in town I'd go nuts.

Wasn’t it last fall that I read where rural voters are a threat to democracy?
Will Geere was a card carrying commie, and his boyfriend was a well known pedophile queer. He also played Wyatt Earp in “Winchester 73”!
Bet ole Wyatt made a few revolutions in his grave.
Richard Thomas played Hank Jr in “Living Proof” in the early or mid ‘70s. I always thought they shoulda had somebody a little more red blooded.
As to the original topic, whatta buncha Bull schit.
I’ve been forced to live in some apartments in big towns, and couldn’t wait to get back home where I know I belong.
Dirt under my feet is as necessary to me as oxygen.

7mm

"Counselors will be available."

I've done both urban and rural. I prefer rural.

I've been to Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, the Twin Cities, and I like paces like Smithville, Arkansas, and the hick town I live three miles from.

Remember when the Republican Party freed the slaves owned by members of the democrat party? Was the audience applauding this well document ed historical fact?

The old joke.
This salesman stops a hillbilly farmer plow with his mule.
Do you know to get to? No. Another places? No,

You don't know much do you! I know on thing, I ain't lost.

Small town living really does fugg up my mental health. Too damn much peace and quiet, I mean the village goes to sleep at 10. The fresh air sucks would rather breathe smog. Crime rate is way too low, would rather have to carry a Glock with 2 extra mags just to mow the lawn which is unnecessary in the concrete jungle. So yes, it just really does fugg you up, I have to worry about moles in the yard instead of cockroaches and rats. The horror.

My daughter and I were in Manhattan a few weeks ago (she'd always wanted to go) and I stopped on the sidewalk to look at a pickup truck parked next to us. "What's so special about that truck?", she asked. "Only one I've seen in the last 3 days", was my response. It was also strange to be on the phone with my wife at home, where I could hear all the birds in the background, versus the urban noises around us. A surprisingly friendly and interesting place to visit, but I'd not want to live there fulltime. Then again, folks born and raised there likely wouldn't want to live at the end of the country road where I reside.

Not a complete corroboration of the "study," but, living in Montana, I constantly hear we have the highest suicide rate (by state) in the country. This Wiki site (https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplink?popoutv2=1&version=20230303006.08) in 2019 put Wyoming first, followed by Alaska, Montana, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Maine, so maybe there's something to it.

Bullpucky.

Unless one is city born and raised- then I can see how going rural may seem stressful - no one to "take care" of all one's needs and wants in large part, except one's self.

(OMG- there's a bug!!!! Call an exterminator!).

Getting dragged by my wife to "urban activities" (concerts, plays, "community activities", and foreign vacations) makes me crazy. Just saying. I'd rather go to my remote cabin for a week or two, than Hawaii or such, even tho the "H. and such" are quicker to get to.

I live in a semi-rural (the bears and moose that use my yard think so, anyway) area 8 miles from "town", but even so..... when I step into the fully-loaded boat on the Tanana to go to the Cosna cabin, all this civilized crap just drops away as I go into "bush mode". I can feel it, and welcome it. Very calming, if not always restful.

SHTF out there is dealt with less stress, than the constant SHTF (in whatever degree) in "civilization".

Call me a crazy curmudgeon, and FYVM. .

I ain't shooting the black bear that sleeps under the Cosna cabin overhang when we aren't there either. Unless he becomes a problem.

Hardly anyone else has a Watch Bear.

In the sixties and seventies, study after study predicted what would happen to human society as larger and larger masses of people become confined in ever higher concentrations within the cities.

The predictions of mental disorders included increasing rates of homosexuality, ever increasing crime rates, increased rates of domestic violence, increased rates of violent crime, murder and suicide.

Predictions were based of observations of lab rats in crowded confined living.

It is not the people in rural living conditions who predominantly require psychiatric intervention. We just want to be left alone. There's nothing inherently sick about that.

And you ask: "Why are all the entry/exit doors made of steel?"

So they can be welded quickly, of course.

Please no. Just leave the sick bastards alone. We have far too many of the idiots moving into the country already.

Higher indigenous people populations might have something to do with it. Black on black killings in urban centers should maybe be counted as "suicides" also - same root causes, perhaps. "Reservations" come in several forms.

I once worked with a guy,..college educated, had a good job as a landscape architect.

A Possum had fallen into one of his window wells and couldn't get out. The guy didn't know what the possum was. He called one of those pest services to come out and remove it.

The pest service guy came out, stuck a piece of 2X4 into the window well and the Possum climbed out and went on his way,..charged the guy $80.

This was a married man with 2 kids,...been to college,...had a degree.

I don't know how some people survive.