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“High gas prices have really brought out the ugly sense of entitlement that so many of today’s suburban warrior style ‘conservatives’ have.”

I’ll assume you’re not just b*tchin’ at me, personally.

However, I’ll never give up my land. They’ll be carrying me out of here feet first, LOL!

I WORKED for 20 years and made many sacrifices to OWN land in the country. I worked for it, I PLANNED for it, and screw anyone that takes away MY choice to live as I please. I lived in-town and in suburbs with the SOLE intent of getting the heck out of there on day down the road. And I DID it! Wa-Hoo!

As for people that live in McMansions...that chit doesn’t come cheap, either, and I’ve YET to meet anyone that has their wealth tied up in a house that didn’t work for what they wanted JUST as hard as I’ve worked for what I wanted.

Sense of “entitlement?” WTF?

I wasn’t directing that at you specifically. This thread actually hasn’t gotten too bad yet, but if you read some others, people are willing to blame everybody but themselves for the situation they’re in. Many people also refuse to accept that times have changed and they’re going to have to adjust. They’d rather drill up the entire country for oil just so that they can be left in an even more painful situation years down the road. That’s what I mean when I refer to a sense of entitlement.

I’m glad to hear you’re living the life you want. If you planned for it and determined you can afford it, then you’ll be fine. Nobody is going to make you move. If you’re forced to move because can’t afford it, and think you “deserve” it just because you’ve worked hard, that’s a sense of entitlement. I work hard at my job, and I’d love to live in one those mansions over on Summit Avenue, but I don’t have the money for it. That’s how it goes sometimes.

I agree with you...... I worked to get out of the city with its high crime and nutty neighbors living 30ft from your front door. I shouldn’t have to beg for lower gas prices because of pols failed policies.

I WORKED for 20 years and made many sacrifices to OWN land in the country. I worked for it, I PLANNED for it, and screw anyone that takes away MY choice to live as I please. I lived in-town and in suburbs with the SOLE intent of getting the heck out of there on day down the road. And I DID it! Wa-Hoo!

Same here but in my case it was forty years.

These "journalists" are just not going to give up trying to shove their agenda down our throats.

Decades ago, EMPLOYERS fled the corrupt, filthy cities and built industrial parks and campuslike corporate headquarters out where people LIVED.

They keep trundling out the Wonderful Workers' Paradise idea of living in urban rat cages and projects. They can CALL them Upscale Gentrification all they want. I visited my brother's really expensive NYC apartment years ago when he lived there.

I'd rather die.

Besides, if someone is commuting to a city, they are supposedly doing so because the city "Pays better". Well, then it should "Pay Better" enough so that adding a hundred or two a month can be handled.

[As for people that live in McMansions...that chit doesn’t come cheap, either,

We live on just over 1/4 acre on the edge of the burbs. Plenty of space for a large garden, the kids, and the dog. 30 yards from an 80 acre open-space maintained by the county.

The best of both worlds. Can raise up to ten chickens here... but no goats.

My commute is a long as it takes me to get down stairs to my office.

Like you, my farmer's-daughter wife and I made plans to get here; and we worked and sacrificed for over 20 years to execute that plan. It wasn't easy. We lived in a mobile home in Santa Ana for nearly a decade while we saved our pennies - and solaced ourselves with visits to my wife's family farmstead.... 2000 miles away.

We avoided the creative financing traps because my dad taught me how to use, and not abuse, credit. Others weren't so lucky to have a wise parent for dispensing such an education.

[ and I’ve YET to meet anyone that has their wealth tied up in a house that didn’t work for what they wanted JUST as hard as I’ve worked for what I wanted.]

Several miles away is a recent development we call The McMansion Ant Farm. 6000 sq ft monsters with no yards, packed together as tightly as the building code allows; many financed "creatively"... some now bank owned.

The folks who live in them have a right to make that personal choice; but it just seems foolish to me. Considering the heating costs alone, together with the inability to grow food; the result is complete dependency upon, and subjugation to - the hive.

I especially feel sorry for their kids - urban rats packed into their wooden cages; obese and numbed by X-Box and Ritalin.

And what happens to those kids while one or both of their parents are camping out in the F1Pity?

Queen's Castle destroys Pawn... Check.

“I’ll never give up my land.”

Ditto. And 50 miles isn’t as bad as some ride. There are plenty of folks commuting from the Poconos in PA to Manhattan. I know some here in Lancaster going down to the Pentagon and inside the DC beltway.