Most of our cities are decaying , libs are a poor metric
wealth inequity, globalism, social decay & lower educational standards are better targets
~S~
Columbus is not decaying.
Dayton is not decaying.
Houston is not decaying.
Based on what, do you make this claim?
Certainly, you can take a carefully crafted tour of the worst parts of any city, and claim that the entire city is decaying based on limited examples.
But clearly San Fransico and Seattle are really in a bad situation of decline.
You don't think so? I have yet to meet a single person from that area, that had a positive view, and I know many.
I may have been a tad harsh Andy, having a)lived in the impovershed urban areas, b) been a trucker visting them c(having toured this country on my own a number of times & d) being a nature boy
and yes SF , anecdotally speaking, should slide into the sea asap
~S~
See that makes more sense. I've lived in poor impoverished areas myself, and while they were obviously and clearly worse off than the wealthy areas..... They were not actually in decay. They in fact were improving.
I think some people drive into a terrible area, and assume things are getting worse there, when in fact things could be improving. It's like walking into a gym, and seeing a skinny guy and a fat guy, and assuming the fat guy is getting fatter, because compared to everyone, he looks terrible. But he could have lost 5 lbs last week. You don't know.
Same thing is true of people who love nature. I like nature too, now and then. But I think our vision is skewed because we're human beings living in a human world.
Interestingly, I drove truck for a little bit too, and I was a courier for awhile. The experiences were entirely different. As a trucker, I was never out in the boonies, because no one has a 18-wheeler deliver out in the sticks. (at least none of my runs were out in the sticks). But as a courier, most of my customers were out in the middle of nowhere.
I remember driving out to a company that hand-made custom dump trucks. CEO had me take an informal tour of the plant. Really cool place. Built from the frame up, custom fit for customers needs.
You walked outside the front door of this manufacturing plant, and it was..... trees.... pond... tall grass.... a small stream... and that's it.
So when you say that there is no nature, it is because of how we live, not because this great country doesn't have plenty of nature. There is nature everywhere. We just live cities, where it's paved over. I delivered medical supplies to an old folks home in northern Ohio. The last 5 minutes of that journey, off the highway, was just trees and fields, and they had built this place on the top of a small hill. So you drove up this drive up to the top, and it was just this nice little apartment style place, on a hill, in the middle of grass and trees.
So I don't see this decay. I'm sure there are really terrible areas that are in fact decaying, but I think that is isolated to the places where you have crime, drugs, and people living off government.
