Comments on: On contempt for rural people

By: chavisory

chavisory — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:10:35 +0000

I encountered a lot of contempt for rural people in, of all places, Georgia, when I was in school there.

I grew up in Kansas City, where there wasn’t a lot of it, because the city has a huge amount of pride for its cattle industry heritage.

Funnily enough, there is not that much of it in NYC, where I live now…at least not much among my own work/social circle…I can only guess because so many people here came from elsewhere, and the pressures of this city in particular can give you a huge amount of nostalgia for a slower, quieter life.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:06:44 +0000

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By: Finny

Finny — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:27:21 +0000

I grew up in a forest quite some distance from the nearest town and/or city (it was a town thirty years ago, but is more of a city now). Even though a fair number of the other kids in my school (which was situated halfway between the forest and the city) were also from the forest, I still remember getting made fun of for living there. Now I’m living in a large city in Canada (I am American), because both myself and the husband must use public transit since we cannot drive due to vision. But I still feel like a forest kid, and I miss it so very much. Without being able to drive, though, the forests I love so much are inaccessible to us.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:21:35 +0000

Whereas I was born in a redwood forest, but then moved to Campbell and then pretty quickly to San Jose. :-P (Actually a very strange part of San Jose where you could write either a San Jose or Campbell mailing address, but that’s complicated.) I actually moved back to another part of the redwood forest when I first moved out, but then my stamina got more and more shot and I couldn’t handle the steep hills, so I moved to one of those towns that’s half town and half farmland. And then here (which also has farmland, now that I remember, but is mostly city).

By: Do I have one?

Do I have one? — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:56:35 +0000

I’m buggered if I know, I was born in a suburb, but my whole memory of early years is the country as we were a just few streets in the Country surrounded by fields and farms and all that smelly stuff. T’aint so now as the City has spread like melting butter. Definately a country kid though, I know where meat comes from.