Well, I reckon we can just stop hauling the food you city slickers want into town because the dirt road is washed out. So starve. No skin off my a$$. I'll follow the news on the internet. I don't wear a suit often enough that I'll miss a Dry Cleaner, Movies are available on line, and the 'Country Store' was the original "Convenience Store", right down to the gas pump out front (and prices to match).
Roads run both ways, but if you don't want them, kindly start ripping them up at the city limits, it'll slow down the riff-raff.
If they want city conveniences, they should suck it up, move back into town, and fight for their neighborhoods, as millions of us already do.
Fight for high crime, filth, waiting in line--everywhere, high taxes, trash, and did I mention crime? I must have missed the convenience in all that.
No thanks, fight for that all you want.
Join us and help drive out the parasites.
Don't drive them our way. Deal with your own trash, don't dump it out here.
BTW, the Interstate highway system wasn't built to support the suburbs, it was built to facillitate the rapid movement of troops. Suburbs were a side effect.
The same highways now transport tremendous tonnages of goods to the doorsteps of America in ridiculously little time, much of that from rural areas.
Maybe you think we should plow up all those roads and go back to quaint wagon rutted trails, but I think you need some experience out where the sidewalk isn't.
Your food, your energy, and the raw materials which feed the factories all come from out here in the boonies.
It may ding your little egos, but we can manage without you (and especially some of the dumb@ssed city-fied rules), not so the other way around.
Hot damn! My backyard is nearly 5000', just the way I like it.
Wish the small town I live next to was another 20 miles away :^)
You “reckon”... LOL
Go tune your banjo, Delverance Boy.
Wonderful post, thank you. You saved me the time.
Great post. By the time I retire I want to be pretty much self-sufficient. We lived in the city for two years and I could not wait to leave. I have lovely neighbors, but I can’t see their houses. I have a garden growing and room to grow the garden. I have an excellent well for water. I can make bread - buy the flour from a mill down the road. I buy my meat locally from the folks who raise it. I rarely go to movies and like Smokin’ Joe I don’t miss the dry cleaners :-)
I found the arragonce of city folk amazing. Not a one of them had an idea that they would starve if the country types didn’t raise their crops and sell them to the food vendors. They actually believe in the food fairy. They complain about the “inconvenience” of living in the country, but spend hours every day fighting traffic to access all those “conveniences”.
Not the life style for me.