If I was President of the United States of America

[cubedemon]

Hmm..
You can take a farm boy and put him in the big city for 65 years.  He can then go back to the farm with no problems.  Very few city girls could make it, but my wife just loves it. 

But take a city boy that now an adult, it would be a big change for them.  Can it be done yep!  But leave your big city thing behind, don't try and change the rural areas.  Just move in and enjoy life.

Let's say one day I decided to do this.   Can you give some examples of "changing the rural areas"  so I can make sure to avoid doing that inadvertently please?   You're right, it would be a big change for me.   What would be some big changes to expect and what are some pitfalls that I can avoid?

[kroz]

Let's say one day I decided to do this.   Can you give some examples of "changing the rural areas"  so I can make sure to avoid doing that inadvertently please?   You're right, it would be a big change for me.   What would be some big changes to expect and what are some pitfalls that I can avoid?

It is critical that you pick the right area.  Not all rural areas are created equal.  Just as in the cities, there are nice habitable areas and some not so good areas.  I have seen people make the mistake of failing to discern differences.   I don't want to step on anyone's toes so I won't give specifics.  Just know that you need to consider carefully.  Do your homework!

[supsalemgr]

Let's say one day I decided to do this.   Can you give some examples of "changing the rural areas"  so I can make sure to avoid doing that inadvertently please?   You're right, it would be a big change for me.   What would be some big changes to expect and what are some pitfalls that I can avoid?

I will quote my old frat brother Lewis Grizzard who summed it up in his advice to people who moved to the south from the north.

"Come on down. Enjoy our weather. Marry our women. Just don't tell us how you did it in Cleveland. We don't care. Don't like here? Delta is ready when you are. Have you back in Cleveland in an hour."

[Solar]

I was thinking about egalitarianism on the other thread.  This to me my friend is what egalitarianism is.  We look out for one another and help build each other up and we do this not by gov't mandate but because we want to and we desire to see the other person uplifted to his best.   This is what I think our society needs.   It is a kin ship type of love for our fellow human beings.   

To me egalitarianism is this.   Others in the community show a person how to do his work better so his work can help benefit the community as a whole.  If the person is sick, the community helps him get back to health.   Are our definitions different? 

We all work together as a synergistic whole to help improve each other and our lives.

No, if anything, we're Libertarian more than anything.
I think you may have egalitarianism confused with Libertarianism.
We Americans, are a free and Capitalistic society, where everyone enjoys equal opportunity to succeed or fail, but egalitarianism contends that society be viewed as a classless society where class in nonexistant, more resembling socialism, or Marx theory of communism.

[Solar]

It is critical that you pick the right area.  Not all rural areas are created equal.  Just as in the cities, there are nice habitable areas and some not so good areas.  I have seen people make the mistake of failing to discern differences.   I don't want to step on anyone's toes so I won't give specifics.  Just know that you need to consider carefully.  Do your homework!

SOOOOO True!!!
I'll give an example. You've all heard Rush refer to Rio Linda and how he tries and simplify things so the Rio Lindites with the intellect of 7 year olds can understand.
This area is just along the border of the Ca Capitol, Sacramento, the area is known for horses and competition water skiing.
Thing is, the area is rural mixed with rich and poor white trash, I kid you not, I had a friend that lived out there, and every year their house would flood because it was below the water table in the winter, and in the summer, the water could be reached by digging down two or three feet.

Now how stupid do you have to be, that you'd build a slab floor house in an area knowing it will flood nearly every year?
You'd think they'd raise the sub floor before building.
Yes, his house flooded regularly. But what was soo funny about the area was all the cars without wheels.
Again, you'd see a sign, "Parting out car", new tires, and the first thing to go? Yep, the tires, and there the car sits, a monument to stupidity for decades to come because no one could move it without tires, let alone afford a tow truck to move it.
In fact, I bet you could google Rio Linda cars without tires and see thousand of pics of dead cars.

True story. My neighbor is a raging idiot white trash hick, gets drunk just to function.
Well, he pissed off the neighborhood, so we decided to have an informal intervention due to his 3:00 Am hollering contests with his idiot friends in the canyon that kept the area awake.

Well we all said our piece and politely asked him to tone it down a bit, that it would be very appreciated.
His response?

Fuck you all! They kicked me outta Rio Linda over this shit, and I'll be damned if you all er gonna screw me over again!
I kid you not, a Rio Linda reject. You can't dig any deeper than that.
Yes, he is that stupid...

However, the years of stupidity finally caught up to him. Got so drunk, he fell down his stairs, broke both femurs, laid up 6 months, alls quiet, then he throws a party, screamin all night took a toll on his throat, after a week, went to see the doctor.
Doctor had him scheduled the next day for surgery, removed his larynx and tongue due to cancer.
Now takes all his sustenance through a tube in his stomach.

Point is, there are nice, quiet rural areas, and there are city dumping grounds. Rio Linda is Sacto. city dumping ground, in that these idiots can't mix with normal people, but they can't be too far from the city for it's welfare.

So my advice to Cube, is get way beyond the city, where the normal people live....

[walkstall]

SOOOOO True!!!
I'll give an example. You've all heard Rush refer to Rio Linda and how he tries and simplify things so the Rio Lindites with the intellect of 7 year olds can understand.
This area is just along the border of the Ca Capitol, Sacramento, the area is known for horses and competition water skiing.
Thing is, the area is rural mixed with rich and poor white trash, I kid you not, I had a friend that lived out there, and every year their house would flood because it was below the water table in the winter, and in the summer, the water could be reached by digging down two or three feet.

Now how stupid do you have to be, that you'd build a slab floor house in an area knowing it will flood nearly every year?
You'd think they'd raise the sub floor before building.
Yes, his house flooded regularly. But what was soo funny about the area was all the cars without wheels.
Again, you'd see a sign, "Parting out car", new tires, and the first thing to go? Yep, the tires, and there the car sits, a monument to stupidity for decades to come because no one could move it without tires, let alone afford a tow truck to move it.
In fact, I bet you could google Rio Linda cars without tires and see thousand of pics of dead cars.

True story. My neighbor is a raging idiot white trash hick, gets drunk just to function.
Well, he pissed off the neighborhood, so we decided to have an informal intervention due to his 3:00 Am hollering contests with his idiot friends in the canyon that kept the area awake.

Well we all said our piece and politely asked him to tone it down a bit, that it would be very appreciated.
His response?

Fuck you all! They kicked me outta Rio Linda over this shit, and I'll be damned if you all er gonna screw me over again!
I kid you not, a Rio Linda reject. You can't dig any deeper than that.
Yes, he is that stupid...

However, the years of stupidity finally caught up to him. Got so drunk, he fell down his stairs, broke both femurs, laid up 6 months, alls quiet, then he throws a party, screamin all night took a toll on his throat, after a week, went to see the doctor.
Doctor had him scheduled the next day for surgery, removed his larynx and tongue due to cancer.
Now takes all his sustenance through a tube in his stomach.

Point is, there are nice, quiet rural areas, and there are city dumping grounds. Rio Linda is Sacto. city dumping ground, in that these idiots can't mix with normal people, but they can't be too far from the city for it's welfare.

So my advice to Cube, is get way beyond the city, where the normal people live....

If you can see your neighbor's land from your house, your not remote enough.   

[kroz]

SOOOOO True!!!
I'll give an example. You've all heard Rush refer to Rio Linda and how he tries and simplify things so the Rio Lindites with the intellect of 7 year olds can understand.
This area is just along the border of the Ca Capitol, Sacramento, the area is known for horses and competition water skiing.
Thing is, the area is rural mixed with rich and poor white trash, I kid you not, I had a friend that lived out there, and every year their house would flood because it was below the water table in the winter, and in the summer, the water could be reached by digging down two or three feet.

Now how stupid do you have to be, that you'd build a slab floor house in an area knowing it will flood nearly every year?
You'd think they'd raise the sub floor before building.
Yes, his house flooded regularly. But what was soo funny about the area was all the cars without wheels.
Again, you'd see a sign, "Parting out car", new tires, and the first thing to go? Yep, the tires, and there the car sits, a monument to stupidity for decades to come because no one could move it without tires, let alone afford a tow truck to move it.
In fact, I bet you could google Rio Linda cars without tires and see thousand of pics of dead cars.

True story. My neighbor is a raging idiot white trash hick, gets drunk just to function.
Well, he pissed off the neighborhood, so we decided to have an informal intervention due to his 3:00 Am hollering contests with his idiot friends in the canyon that kept the area awake.

Well we all said our piece and politely asked him to tone it down a bit, that it would be very appreciated.
His response?

Fuck you all! They kicked me outta Rio Linda over this shit, and I'll be damned if you all er gonna screw me over again!
I kid you not, a Rio Linda reject. You can't dig any deeper than that.
Yes, he is that stupid...

However, the years of stupidity finally caught up to him. Got so drunk, he fell down his stairs, broke both femurs, laid up 6 months, alls quiet, then he throws a party, screamin all night took a toll on his throat, after a week, went to see the doctor.
Doctor had him scheduled the next day for surgery, removed his larynx and tongue due to cancer.
Now takes all his sustenance through a tube in his stomach.

Point is, there are nice, quiet rural areas, and there are city dumping grounds. Rio Linda is Sacto. city dumping ground, in that these idiots can't mix with normal people, but they can't be too far from the city for it's welfare.

So my advice to Cube, is get way beyond the city, where the normal people live....

I always wondered where Rio Linda was located but was too lazy to look it up on the map.

And, I want you to know that I was NOT drunk when I fell down my stairs!   

[Solar]

If you can see your neighbor's land from your house, your not remote enough.   

He's more than a mile away, but in the mountains, sound carries a Hell of a long way, especially when the idiot is in the canyon having echo hollering contests, I kid you not.
These people are truly white trash stupid.

But since they removed his vocal chords, it's been damned quiet.

[Solar]

I always wondered where Rio Linda was located but was too lazy to look it up on the map.

And, I want you to know that I was NOT drunk when I fell down my stairs!   

It's everything I said it was.

[kroz]

It's everything I said it was.

   There are large parts of Arkansas that are the same way!

[Billy's bayonet]

Whatever endearing qualities Rio Lindo may or may not have it cannot hold a candle to West Virginia....where the State emblem is a tire hanging on a fence post and most houses still have the old fashioned TV antennea's. That actually work.

I suggest cubedemon travel to Pocahontas county Wva for the annual roadkill cooking festival....culturally enriching to be sure....you will also learn what a 4x4 is. You might even meet me and Mrs Billy I'm going for the 'Busted Opossum surprise"


http://pccocwv.com/roadkill

[kroz]

Whatever endearing qualities Rio Lindo may or may not have it cannot hold a candle to West Virginia....where the State emblem is a tire hanging on a fence post and most houses still have the old fashioned TV antennea's. That actually work.

I suggest cubedemon travel to Pocahontas county Wva for the annual roadkill cooking festival....culturally enriching to be sure....you will also learn what a 4x4 is. You might even meet me and Mrs Billy I'm going for the 'Busted Opossum surprise"


http://pccocwv.com/roadkill

I know that what you say about WV is true but at least the State is so heavily wooded that travelers are shielded from most of the evidence as they pass through the State on major roadways.  You could easily fantasize that it is something entirely different from the truth.

That is why it is so important to do your homework before buying into an aesthetically lovely "looking" neighborhood.

[cubedemon]

He's more than a mile away, but in the mountains, sound carries a Hell of a long way, especially when the idiot is in the canyon having echo hollering contests, I kid you not.
These people are truly white trash stupid.

But since they removed his vocal chords, it's been damned quiet.

Echo Hollering contests.   Wow!   

How does he get to where he has to be drunk to function?   Wouldn't being drunk impair you?

[Solar]

Echo Hollering contests.   Wow!   

How does he get to where he has to be drunk to function?   Wouldn't being drunk impair you?

The loser has spent more of his waking life impaired than he has sober, so one tends to learn to adapt.
You've never met a walking drunk, have you?
It's common to hear these phrases. "Holt muh beer and hand me the dynamite, tthis is gonna make a big boom, now get behind that cardboard"
Hell, I'm a bettur shot whin U'm drunk, just put this apple on yer head..... or... Whut "bridge out" sign?

And sadly, the idiots he hung with all spoke the same language "tears over beers", meaning they'd start out laughing, and by 3:00 AM they were all cryin like babies over an imagined catastrophe.
Things like hypothetical questions. What if you were married to a actuall woman and she cheated on ya? What if she took yer dog too? Wahhhhh, she took muh dog? wahhh...
And the doc just gave ya a year to live? Buddy listening hears year to live, and starts cryin, then they all start crying over a hypothetical question.
We'll miss ya Willy....

That last one is true, I actually watched that one unfold one mid afternoon....

[kroz]

The loser has spent more of his waking life impaired than he has sober, so one tends to learn to adapt.
You've never met a walking drunk, have you?
It's common to hear these phrases. "Holt muh beer and hand me the dynamite, tthis is gonna make a big boom, now get behind that cardboard"
Hell, I'm a bettur shot whin U'm drunk, just put this apple on yer head..... or... Whut "bridge out" sign?

And sadly, the idiots he hung with all spoke the same language "tears over beers", meaning they'd start out laughing, and by 3:00 AM they were all cryin like babies over an imagined catastrophe.
Things like hypothetical questions. What if you were married to a actuall woman and she cheated on ya? What if she took yer dog too? Wahhhhh, she took muh dog? wahhh...
And the doc just gave ya a year to live? Buddy listening hears year to live, and starts cryin, then they all start crying over a hypothetical question.
We'll miss ya Willy....

That last one is true, I actually watched that one unfold one mid afternoon....

Now THAT is pure redneck!!