Small towns, small minds, The lines that divide us

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To your original point OE - the irony is that the speaker in this case is being small-minded herself by stereotyping.

People confuse opinion and fact (frequently on this board!). Just because someone doesn't share your world view they are not more narrow-minded or even wrong.
 
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volinbham said:
To your original point OE - the irony is that the speaker in this case is being small-minded herself by stereotyping.

People confuse opinion and fact (frequently on this board!). Just because someone doesn't share your world view they are not more narrow-minded or even wrong.
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Amazingly, people in the super suburbs of Columbus consider themselves the cultural elite of the state.

Haven't quite figured that one out either.
 
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OrangeEmpire said:
Amazingly, people in the super suburbs of Columbus consider themselves the cultural elite of the state.

Haven't quite figured that one out either.
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It cracks me up to deal with folks from Hilliard, Dublin, UA, and (more than any other) Clintonville.

That reminds me...we're moving up to the booming metropolis of Delaware in a few weeks. It's not exactly like growing up in Galena, but it'll cut some time out of the commute.
 
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Growing up in orange county, ca is the way to go. I feel sorry for those that feel the need to boast about their income or profession on this board. I would imagine there are a lit if succesful people on here, most of us graduated from the best school in the land.
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volinbham said:
To your original point OE - the irony is that the speaker in this case is being small-minded herself by stereotyping.

People confuse opinion and fact (frequently on this board!). Just because someone doesn't share your world view they are not more narrow-minded or even wrong.
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Amen
 
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Vols520 said:
I would imagine there are a lit if succesful people on here, most of us graduated from the best school in the land.
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someone hasn't looked at us news and world report recently.
 
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OrangeEmpire said:
My sis in law ran in the Columbus 10K, people from all over Central Ohio were gathered for this as over 500 runners were there with friends and family to show support.

As we were in the building doing registration I saw two runners speaking, the male being very friendly and nice and the female obviously trying to get away. Finally she did get away and her boyfriend said "Who was that? He seemed really nice." Her reply was "Just someone from my hometown. You know how it is, small town, small minds."

This really got me thinking about the things that really divide us as a nation, and I'd say that one major thing it the difference between big city dwellers and those who live in more rural settings. I grew up in Lexington, KY, so I think we got the best of both but I can also relate with people who live in both types of settings. I guess I really don't get it, why do people who live in one type of setting automatically look down on those who have different backgrounds?

Thoughts?
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I fell in love with Lex immediately (I've been here since 1990) it is a great place to raise kids...but you would have to look hard to find a town of comparable size with this many snobs in it.
 
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Lexvol said:
I fell in love with Lex immediately (I've been here since 1990) it is a great place to raise kids...but you would have to look hard to find a town of comparable size with this many snobs in it.
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Lex, my impression of Lexington was similar to yours.

In many ways it seemed bi-polar - Lot's of haves, lot's of have nots but not much in between.

Any place that has a Liquor Barn though is alright with me.
 
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volinbham said:
Lex, my impression of Lexington was similar to yours.

In many ways it seemed bi-polar - Lot's of haves, lot's of have nots but not much in between.

Any place that has a Liquor Barn though is alright with me.
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Don't forget a Kroger on every corner!
 
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I suppose if you grew up dealing with it (like cold in Green Bay) it wouldn't be an issue but I hate, I mean loath/detest/abhor traffic. I would need no other reason than that to keep me out of a really "big" city.

It's a little more subtle than traffic but I don't like the, I don't know, perception of people towards each other in a massed environment. Dense population seems to have a dissociative effect or kind of a social triage mentality. It just seems pointless to care about something as trivial as an individual when you're dealing with hundreds of thousands or millions of people. The swarm always loses a few bees, the rest don't care.

I have a cousin with a darn good job in Austin, TX. He commutes nearly an hour from a little town named Rockdale every day. He has no interest in living in or raising his children in Austin and the drive is worth it to him to go back to that little town where there's almost no crime and if your sister was getting raped a pickup full of guys would not only stop to help her but might just end the SOB's life on the spot. Good luck with that in Chicago.
 
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Ohio Vol said:
It cracks me up to deal with folks from Hilliard, Dublin, UA, and (more than any other) Clintonville.

That reminds me...we're moving up to the booming metropolis of Delaware in a few weeks. It's not exactly like growing up in Galena, but it'll cut some time out of the commute.
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Heck, in the last six months the corn field across from our housing development turned into a Meijer and a Kohl's shopping center.

We also have three Kroger's.......... haven't quite figured out why.
 
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volinbham said:
Lex, my impression of Lexington was similar to yours.

In many ways it seemed bi-polar - Lot's of haves, lot's of have nots but not much in between.

Any place that has a Liquor Barn though is alright with me.
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I experienced a similar phenomenon in MaconGA, moreso while I was a graduate sudent and lived in the suburbs and mostly socialized with young adult locals. Small city with a core of wealthy folks, much bigger than you'd expect based on the overall population, who more or less owned and ran everything worth having/running. Very few what I would call upper middle class types and huge slums/trailer parks full of poor folks. If I were from there and not fortunate enough to be born into the elite caste, I would've gotten the heck out of dodge ASAP.
 
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This thread is very interesting. Definitely a direction and focus I didn't expect it to take.
 
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OrangeEmpire said:
Heck, in the last six months the corn field across from our housing development turned into a Meijer and a Kohl's shopping center.

We also have three Kroger's.......... haven't quite figured out why.
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Especially since Buehler's is the only decent grocery store in the county.
 
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Ohio Vol said:
Especially since Buehler's is the only decent grocery store in the county.
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Good times, we are the youngest people in there as soon as step in the door!

Where else can you go to Ace Hardware, The Bank and eat off of a really decent salad bar all in the same store?
 
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OrangeEmpire said:
Good times, we are the youngest people in there as soon as step in the door!

Where else can you go to Ace Hardware, The Bank and eat off of a really decent salad bar all in the same store?
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And eat muffins from under a covered wagon.
 
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I was actually thinking along these lines a few days ago since the primary "red/blue" divide seems to be between urban and rural areas and I was thinking about the "polarization" problem with our nation. I do believe for the most part the ideals, values, and culture are just on two completely different planes. And, in all honesty I'm totally fine with that. You personally could not pay me to live in a big city, heck I work in Nashville and I can barely stand that. However, there are people out there that couldn't imagine living in my little "hole in the wall" town forty miles northeast of it either. I just never got the hate people have between the two "sides." To me its almost tantamount to a person who is a racist et al. That woman's comments were just about as offensive as something a David Duke would say.
 
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droski said:
most of the people i know from small towns see the people who stayed as settling for something less or not having ambition. i don't think this is completely without merit. the big money and jobs are always going to be mostly in the cities.
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The same could be said of the people that willingly stay in Detroit and Cleveland.

I prefer small towns because it is cheaper, you can get more house for the money, more land/yard for the money, and taxes are generally lower.
 
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