This is my original home...the Columbus skyline. Beautiful, isn't it? I have about had all that I can take of the "locals" bitching about "city people." For the past eight years or so, I have lived in one of the largest counties in Ohio. However, it is largest in AREA-not population. It is a county directly next to Franklin County...which is the Columbus and surrounding 'burbs. My original home.
Now I'm not saying the city is for everyone...and that's fine. You are either a "city person" or a "country person." Nothing wrong with being either. Its a personal preference. I'm definitely a "city person." However, I do on occasion enjoy the simplicity, beauty and laid-back feel of the country. I just wouldn't want to live there. In some areas of the country, folks are generally very friendly, polite and quite hospitable. I have family in parts of West Virginia and have vacationed in many parts of the South. (Tennessee and NC) You can be driving down the street and see old folks sitting and relaxing on their front porch. Its nothing to have them throw up their hand, nod their head conveying a warm and welcoming "Hello." That's nice. It restores my faith in humanity.
Down in WV where my family is from, apparently they don't believe in street signs. Either that or the damn things have been stolen or shot down. I get lost every damn time I go down there. Directions down there go something like this, "Well, ya go back down how ya just were coming in. Now you'll see a fork in the road...ya wanna veer to the right. Once you're back in the holler you'll come to another fork in the road. Then you'll wanna veer to the left. After ya pass over Hickman's crick (creek), you'll come upon Old Widah (widow) Hettie's Farm. There you'll wanna take the second dirt road up the holler...don't take the first one, younse need a 4 wheel drive up that road..." By this time I'm usually looking at the nice gentleman like he has a third eye. They usually lose me at "the holler." On occasion I've even had folks offer to take me where I'm going by me following them. I've offered to give them money in the past but they never accept it. Usually saying "No thank ye Ma'am, just being neighborly and Christian-like." Oh if only all Christians would be "Christian-like."
However, its not always like that. Maybe its a territorial thing, a personality thing, who knows...but the "country folk" around me tend to be assholes! I don't even refer to them as "country folk." To me, they are white-trash-hick assholes! All they do is bitch about how "city people" are assholes and rude as hell. How the crime in the city is outrageous. FYI, Columbus' crime rate is relatively LOW considering the population. In fact, I have read reports that say the crime rate per person is actually LOWER in Franklin County than out here in Licking County. Try explaining that to some of the twits out here, though.
They bitch about city traffic yet I find the traffic out here MUCH worse. They don't know how to drive and apparently the cars out here aren't equipped with turn signals. Traffic lights and stop signs appear to just be suggestions. Learning how to merge onto a highway also must not have been a prerequisite to obtaining a driver's license. Also, the concept of the "left fast/passing lane" is foreign to them. Its nothing to see one in the far left lane going 50mph or so.
Crime rate? Don't get me started on THAT! Oh sure, the murder rate out here is fairly low. They just molest children out here, cook up meth and blow up houses. There was actually a couple busted a few weeks ago for cooking Meth in a Walmart store! For real! And it seems that every other week somebody is being arrested for child molestation. NOT AN EXAGGERATION! Last week a man was sentenced to 15 years for molesting/raping a 7 and 13 year old...impregnating the 13 year old. This week a 33 year old man was sentenced for molesting/raping his foster child. Nope, no crime out here!
I'm just sick of it. Its a small town and seems like everyone knows everyone. They are able to pick out a "city person" in an instant and have no qualms about rudely voicing their opinions of the city and "city people." As I work with the public, I have to deal with these assholes on a daily basis. I have recently grown quite tired of their rhetoric and have started to fire back with FACTS. I was told to "F**k Off!"
Yeah, and apparently I'm the rude one.
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