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I hate driving in urban traffic. I remember one of our Alaska trips when we were headed toward Los Anchorage from the east and I decided to avoid that and at Palmer cut over to Wasilla on our way to our lodgings up at Willow. The traffic in Wasilla, Alaska was enough to cause psychiatric issues after all our leisurely wanderings about the lightly populated state. I can only imagine what life is like in Anchorage, probably not good.

The next time we took the scenic Fishhook-Willow road from Fishhook Jct. and avoided all that.

I won't even travel up to the NE U.S. because of the mass of humanity even though I would love to see the historical sites and sights.

My community has a population of 15 more or less.

My wife taught Kinders for some years. She always started the year with two mice, M&F. You know the results.... I don't know how much of the lesson stuck with 5 year olds.

Hastings.... some time back ... I think it was Bearhunter... said that , (on a weekend) he was fighting Anchorage traffic - and he was still in Kenai. I know the feeling!

I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty and I like my more rural life, but I'll admit that I didn't grow up in a household where we fixed/repaired much stuff. It was often hired out. I had to learn a lot by reading and watching Youtube, actually. Stuff like working on water heaters, carburetors, etc. There are a couple of guys in their early 40's (my age) that grew up near my current house and they seemingly know how to do nearly anything/everything. Need something wired or an HVAC problem diagnosed? Need something plumbed or welded? Need some excavator work? They already know how to do most of it, so we trade out work all the time. I generally work on their guns and/or load their ammo.

I heard in the cities men dress like women

I'm on the same page with the study findings – it's clear that living in a rural area can pose challenges for mental health support. Access to resources and assistance can be limited, which is a concern.

one version of living hell to me would be living in a home in a community that has an HOA and I'm required to have a home that looks like everyone other home with some Karen who is perpetually made at the world for not making the cheerleading squad her freshmen year of high school is telling everyone what bush they can grow and what color their mail box has to be. You can't wrench on a car, you can't park a boat, you can't build a pond, their whole existence is being told what they can't do.

Yet more than 50% of ALL homeowners belong to an HOA.

I'd phugging come home and drink every night if that was where I lived.

I appreciate that your first post on here is to go back to a thread that was at the start of the year. Must be passionate about City living.

Great.

Another Biden voting D.U. fuggstick.

As a 55 yo, lifelong American, that spends 50% of my time in the city (NYC), and 50% of my time in the country (Northern Catskills), I can tell you the quality of life, AND the quality of the people is 100x better in rural areas. There’s more $ to be made in the cities (only reason I’m there), but the filth (both literal garbage, and human garbage) is apparent in the city.

Rural life is NOT for those who want everything done for them (you know, Liberals). At least that’s how I see it.

Most people that think living in the country have moved to cities and the other way around. To each his own.

granpa and granma Walton .both was gay .and lesbian in real life

Since you just got here tell us about yourself if you don't mind a few details. Age, work experience, hobbies, political leanings, gay or straight?

And have you been here previously under another identity?

Was this in Oregon?

LOL

I just watched a version of All Quiet on the Western Front, a movie shot in 1978. Starring John Boy as the German soldier.
He was really good and it is a great movie. Also with Ernest Borgnine.

I have known Gruff 15 years.

And I would concur that rural living can cause severe mental illness.

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to sign up for an account, looking up an old thread, and letting us know what you think about it.

I look forward to your future contributions.

It's a nightmare. I did that for three or four years back in the late 1980s. Constant complaints and threats about my "dangerous dogs." Finally, I had my sister (a practicing attorney at the time) write them a letter on her pactice's letterhead, and it stopped.

This brings a few questions to mind
1. Where you live would shed some light for us on your definition of "rural"
2. What is the make up of your "reality based community" and your "struggles" to understand others world view?
3. Your definition of "eccentric member".
4.Finally , just for the record, do you in your non stir crazy moments actually have in your possession anything chambered in "308"? This last one we insist to apply the "renegade rule" to , pics or it ain't so...

I grew up in a suburban town in freaking ne jersey and even WE had a "grange" in town. Before the internet no one could tell me what the hell a "grange" was, but there it was. Shows. Dance. Bingo. Handt thought of that word in decades. Thanks!

As to the article, as many have indicated already, it is nonsense borne of a scared beta bolshevik.

You mean, "the husband and I".

Every line typed by E08 is passive/aggressive while clearly meant to be derogatory at the same time.