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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/13/2009 3:34:19 PM

jeninvegas

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The sticks (just found out what that meant, lol) can be a good break from the city. Honestly, I can't imagine living everyday of my life in the sticks though...

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/13/2009 3:39:49 PM

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oh i sure do miss the country though. One nice thing where I live though is my terrace looks over a pool with lots of trees and nature. Every place else is cement and buildings, but this view brings me peace. I also happy that i have wonderful people living where i am.

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 7:43:27 AM

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I would rather die than live in a big city again. People are too frakkin close in so called "civilization." If I want to stack people on top of each other, I'll hold an orgy, not build tiny apartments. And city people, in my experience, are always sticking their noses into your business. If I want everyone around me to be up my ass and in my business, I'll hold a gay orgy.

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 7:52:19 AM

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ya`ll are insane !!

theres something about a living breathing city thats just so much more appealing than the backwoods

maybe im biased spending my first 17 years living miles away from anything but farms and fields and neighbours who were all over 50

i love the bustle of a city , the strangers with every step , new storys with every conversation , a thousands lives and stories playing out in an area you can walk accross in a few hours

traffic noises are easier to sleep through too

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 8:02:56 AM

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I admit I got used to the drive by shootings and the screams of those being mugged at night. The attempted carjackings made for lovely drives through the city. The rude people everywhere I went made every day a real pleasure.

I probably grew up more country and further in the sticks than most people you know. I couldn't wait to get to "civilization." My experience was not a good one and when I got my chance I moved out of hell and back to a place where kids don't have to be lojacked or dressed in body armor before they go to school. I'm sure there are good cities. I just never found one.

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 8:13:40 AM

Darias

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Dublin ... high on the muggings but low on the drivebys ... much better than american citys IMO

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 9:07:28 AM

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I'm having major rural living withdrawl! Dammit! Yes I totally love having a gajillion restaurants within just a few miles of me (

) but I'm not so sure it is worth the low riders booming bass, crying kids, sirens and general noise of city life.

I miss my woods, Percival Peacock, the deer. I miss falling asleep to the sound of frogs singing in my pond instead of white noise from a machine.
Plus it is just too damn hot here.

Sigh. I am really homesick right now.

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 11:52:17 AM

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...I knew a lady plotted to live where there was the least taxes. She came from NJ to PA, and her goal was TN. hmm.

We still have a few days for deer season. Who can forget that hokie song?

I like living in a small town. ...but truth be told I have GREAT memories of life in Chicago! I really do. From here I plan to move further out. Preferably in PA, but if the depression gets too dangerous- I would consider The Republic of Lacota, KY/TN, and Canada.

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 12:12:54 PM

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it was a 106 here yesterday in NW Texs

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 12:17:37 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Irishknight

I admit I got used to the drive by shootings and the screams of those being mugged at night. The attempted carjackings made for lovely drives through the city. The rude people everywhere I went made every day a real pleasure.

I probably grew up more country and further in the sticks than most people you know. I couldn't wait to get to "civilization." My experience was not a good one and when I got my chance I moved out of hell and back to a place where kids don't have to be lojacked or dressed in body armor before they go to school. I'm sure there are good cities. I just never found one.

Yeah- I was car jacked in Chicago. It was the longest 40 minutes of my life. Un-imaginable. Ill stick to a small town. We have nice jails here for bad boys and we use them.

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 12:28:12 PM

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PS: Man- too deep. But that day man. That day. I did not want to kill the guy. (vehicular manslaughter) Just amazing it did not turn out worse then it did. I could have killed the guy. Some drug crazed white guy with green eyes. Like a monster. Saturday night I blew at least 7 red lights in Chicago. ....and no one seen a thing.

*clears head*

This is one one many reasons that I choose to NOT follow my family to live in Chicago. Mom moved back and she worries about me here. It is like- YOU WENT TO CHICAGO AND you are worried about ME!!!!!!!

Never again.     I love to visit. But too much of a rat race.   I love small towns. Even tho they can be tit for tat and quirky.

What a night. Where are those pills to erase the memory? at least that one. But hey - I am alive and no real harm came... so I guess I should be dancing right now.

One note on small towns... never underestimate the "dumb hicks".    Ill take a depression here any day compared to Americas cities.

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 12:45:06 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Darias

ya`ll are insane !!

theres something about a living breathing city thats just so much more appealing than the backwoods

maybe im biased spending my first 17 years living miles away from anything but farms and fields and neighbours who were all over 50

i love the bustle of a city , the strangers with every step , new storys with every conversation , a thousands lives and stories playing out in an area you can walk accross in a few hours

traffic noises are easier to sleep through too

Insane, unlikely. I think it's a case of greener grass. I lived in Los Angeles for a while after graduating college, lived near downtown and worked in Vernon.
One night I hear the guy next door screaming bloody murder, so I grab the shotgun and the dogs and go to see what's going on. Poor guy is scared to death because some crackhead had no idea where he was and was pounding on his door wanting to score.
I decided to leave the night I was taking a shortcut on Sunset to the freeway to go pick up a friend at the Burbank airport. Traffic was stopped in both directions because there two guys on bicycles that had just been shot. My first thought was not "how awful" but "jeez, ya think you guys could move the carcasses so we can get through?"
Now traffic means I got stuck behind some farmer on his tractor, and the only things I hear in the night are birds, frogs, or cattle lowing.
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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 1:54:28 PM

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ill always remember living in Windsor Ontario which is right across the river from Detroit. went out one night to the casino there and just as we were heading in the door heard a weird noise coming across the river. i asked the folks i was with what it was and they just shrugged and said " drive by " scared the crap out of me . but rather than making me like citys less it encouraged me ... ill bet there are less guns in detroit than there are in an equivilant farm area here in ireland .... between the IRA stashing guns for nigh on 100 years like squirrels and forgetting where they put them , and the fact that ireland didnt have much of a gun control law for years .....

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 2:16:08 PM

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quote:

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ill always remember living in Windsor Ontario which is right across the river from Detroit. went out one night to the casino there and just as we were heading in the door heard a weird noise coming across the river. i asked the folks i was with what it was and they just shrugged and said " drive by " scared the crap out of me . but rather than making me like citys less it encouraged me ... ill bet there are less guns in detroit than there are in an equivilant farm area here in ireland .... between the IRA stashing guns for nigh on 100 years like squirrels and forgetting where they put them , and the fact that ireland didnt have much of a gun control law for years .....

I been up thru Windsor. I nice area for sure. Up the 401 to Toronto. Toronto is an awesome city! I loved it there. From there I drove south to Niagara- another nice place to see.

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 2:21:52 PM

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It is only 100 miles to Vegas 200 to Phoenix 100 to the big hole in the ground. 8 to tall pines and open desert out the window. I love it here in the middle of no place where Major shopping is Walmart and where the cops ran the gangs out of town. About 1/2 the population carries guns and it stays real quiet. Very little crime. God I lvoe it

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 3:30:56 PM

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I can't speculate on the number of guns per capita in either area.
I would be willing to gamble I could safely walk the streets of rural Ireland.
The smart money would not be on my making three blocks of the 8 mile.
j

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/14/2009 4:24:46 PM

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I don't think its the number of guns we need to worry about but the number of assholes with no morals willing to kill you for a fix of "insert drug of the day here" or just because you are on the wrong street. There could be 1000 guns person and if there were no psychopaths out there trying to be the king of the street corner, then we would all be just fine. Its the user, not the gun that is at fault.
When I was in Chicago, a man was beaten so badly that he ended up in intensive care. He was found on a sidewalk near an atm. It was filler in the side bar of the paper. If something happened like that here, it would be front page.
When I moved here, people went out of their way to help me get settled in. When I moved to Norfolk, the next door neighbors looked through cracked doors that still had chains on them. I NEVER want to live like that again. Humans were not meant to live like that.

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/16/2009 11:39:23 AM

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ha, I'm back....

I guess I just need a change in scenery for a while, it's not that country living can't be enjoyable, it's just that it's like being in a hot tub, relaxing and quiet, But I'm young...and restless, and have lived out here my entire life,so my hands are getting a pruney lol

as for some of the Bull crap I've read above about crime and country..
ROTFL....
heres a recent one...
http://www.hidesertstar.com/articles/2009/06/15/news/doc4a33475a3cc61062732157.txt

I dunno, had too many friends chopped up and thrown around the "sugar Bowl"and too many guns pointed at me to believe that this area is a nice and peaceful...

then again maybe it's just me lol

need to stop hanging out with lowlives I guess

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/16/2009 11:45:47 AM

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I don't think its the number of guns we need to worry about but the number of assholes with no morals willing to kill you for a fix of "insert drug of the day here" or just because you are on the wrong street. There could be 1000 guns person and if there were no psychopaths out there trying to be the king of the street corner, then we would all be just fine. Its the user, not the gun that is at fault.
When I was in Chicago, a man was beaten so badly that he ended up in intensive care. He was found on a sidewalk near an atm. It was filler in the side bar of the paper. If something happened like that here, it would be front page.
When I moved here, people went out of their way to help me get settled in. When I moved to Norfolk, the next door neighbors looked through cracked doors that still had chains on them. I NEVER want to live like that again. Humans were not meant to live like that.

True, but guns make assholes far more effective...

They also have a habit of injuring third parties more frequently
and helping ballless bastards find "courage" in a little piece of steal after they find the bottom of a bottle...

Needless to say, I've experience fucked up shit with and with out guns, guns magnify any bad situation by a thousand..

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RE: Damn...I need to move out of the sticks - 6/16/2009 11:58:28 AM

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ORIGINAL: Irishknight

I don't think its the number of guns we need to worry about but the number of assholes with no morals willing to kill you for a fix of "insert drug of the day here" or just because you are on the wrong street. There could be 1000 guns person and if there were no psychopaths out there trying to be the king of the street corner, then we would all be just fine. Its the user, not the gun that is at fault.
When I was in Chicago, a man was beaten so badly that he ended up in intensive care. He was found on a sidewalk near an atm. It was filler in the side bar of the paper. If something happened like that here, it would be front page.
When I moved here, people went out of their way to help me get settled in. When I moved to Norfolk, the next door neighbors looked through cracked doors that still had chains on them. I NEVER want to live like that again. Humans were not meant to live like that.

We do have murders here- and the press covers that well.   I am amazed at the variety of ways TO murder.

Most are- a love triangle gone bad.

*nods my head*   of course if ya stand next to so and so- you are banging them. be careful who you stand next to.

:-)

In Chicago- I had stopped even reporting crime as it was such a hastle- and they usually did not want to do the paperwork.

(back in PA).
...not too long ago- nurse drugged her ?? abusive husband.   quite a case... but like they all are.   a drug deal gone bad- guy murdered with nunchuck sticks.   right here on the river.

....we send our share into the prisons- where they see- well- tougher animals....     I do think it is a good deterent- at least it works in this locale.

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