(11-28-2017 01:56 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(11-28-2017 01:47 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(11-28-2017 01:42 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(11-28-2017 01:21 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(11-28-2017 01:13 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  Quit being so naive. Most Americans don't pay as much attention to politics as we do.

Middle and upper class people leave the city because they want their kids to have a backyard, a nice school to attend, and two car garages. You don't usually see that in the big city.

Get a grip man, not everything revolves around politics. You are beginning to sound paranoid.

Most Americans pay attention, they just don't know it.

They care about rising taxes and move to avoid them.

They care about rising crime and move to avoid it.

They care about increasing regulation of their daily lives and move to avoid it.

They care about declining schools and move to avoid them.

Everything I listed is part and parcel with leftist politics. They might not know that leftism drove them out but the facts and the facts.

Perhaps things are different where you come from. Where I come from, they complain about higher taxes but they don't move because of it.

They may care about rising crime, but they don't blame politics they blame the criminals.

They may complain about regulations but they don't move out of the city or blame liberal politics.

You are just completely brain washed.

Have you ever lived in the big city?

I'm talking something over 500k?

Then the people where you live are spineless.

No, I have never lived in a city that large. I have little desire to even visit them, much less live there. I turned down a position with a Florida department because they required employees to live in their **** hole city. Would have been a $15k a year raise considering income tax but it wasn't worth sending my two young kids to third world level schools.

Again, I don't blame anyone for not wanting to live in a big city. They have a lot of problems that smaller towns just don't have. But at the same time, they have their own set of problems.

I had a wonderful conversation with the owner of a hotel I stayed at in Ruidoso, N.M. Which is a very small town.

He explained to me that he cannot stay fully staffed because most of the young people are on meth.

He also mentioned that they have a huge alcohol problem in that town.

The biggest problems that the small towns here have is illegal aliens choking their public safety and school budgets beyond what the tax base can support.