What is it about cities that makes people so soft and liberal?

[breakingcontact]

Is it just the easy life? All of the gov services? Mental illness as we arent supposed to live stacked on top of each other?

 

[dustycorgill]

I live in Garland Tx. Still city, in Dallas County. I for one would pose the question what is it about cities that would NOT make you conservative? I absolutely HATE the city. I cannot wait to by our land and move to the sticks.

To answer your question.....I think it is all of the available services. In the sticks you have to learn to conserve, make things work, and do without all the luxury you have in the city...Malls, theaters, food options, ect..... I for one cannot wait to get the hell away from it all.

 

[Charlie]

Maybe because there are so many people around in the city, some may, for whatever reason, think it's safer? I personally feel much safer out here in the sticks.

 

[dustycorgill]

Maybe because there are so many people around in the city, some may, for whatever reason, think it's safer? I personally feel much safer out here in the sticks.

Will you adopt me? Lol

 

[txbikerman]

in the country, you have to learn to make do with what you have, repair it .

 

[Southpaw]

Cities seem to take all the self sufficiency out of life. And in that, I believe that is the kind of people it attracts. People who don't want to think or do much for themselves. It also insulates people in anonymity as well, and that may also be a desired effect for some as well. If you don't want to deal with who you are or want to be someone you aren't, then move to the city.

 

[hellishhorses]

Both. Trash, water, sewage, transportation, parks, entertainment, grocery stores — someone else doing the dirty work necessary for their world to revolve.

I told my wife when we watched American Blackout on NatGeo "if the world ended tomorrow, my world would not end with it." The sun will still rise, rivers will flow, animals will breathe. It may get tough, and certain luxuries would disappear, but life would go on.

 

[Southpaw]

Both. Trash, water, sewage, transportation, parks, entertainment, grocery stores — someone else doing the dirty work necessary for their world to revolve.

I told my wife when we watched American Blackout on NatGeo "if the world ended tomorrow, my world would not end with it." The sun will still rise, rivers will flow, animals will breathe. It may get tough, and certain luxuries would disappear, but life would go on.

Most people here in the cities and suburbs haven't got a prayer if something like that happens for an extended amount of time and they choose to gleefully ignore that fact.

 

[dustycorgill]

Most people here in the cities and suburbs haven't got a prayer if something like that happens for an extended amount of time and they choose to gleefully ignore that fact.

And stupidly so.

 

[hellishhorses]

Most people here in the cities and suburbs haven't got a prayer if something like that happens for an extended amount of time and they choose to gleefully ignore that fact.

Zombies. Not necessarily in the literal sense, but the "ignorants" will be coming for your brains. Which is okay — I could use more sandbags.

 

[breakingcontact]

I dont hate cities. Im not a country bumpkin (is the frost out on the pumpkin?). I like museums and nice parks and i even go to musicals and plays (no homo). What i hate is how soft people are in the cities. Guys talk and act like sissies and the women just drive SUVs around aimlessly shopping. (i still dont understand 4wds in Texas but thats another thread). I hate the trend of rural America being depopulated as people move to cities and become limp wristed pansies. I hate how the democrats own most cities and...make a mess out of them and drive off business.

I dont know why living in a city makes so many completely absent of reason.

I dont hate cities but i just dont get the mentality of the majority of the residents.

 

[Charlie]

I like cities. .................. But I like living outside the city. In 10 or 15 minutes I can be in Kerrville (pop. 20,000 +) or in 45 minutes I can be in NW San Antonio.

 

[Shooter McGavin]

What used to be the country has turned to city over time due to growth. I lived in what was at one time BFE, but as growth spread it turned into somewhat of a suburb. Traffic quadrupled, residences sky rocketed, then in came the fast food joints and gas stations. Don't get me wrong I like to see the money business brings as it spurs along the economy, just not near my place....

 

[benenglish]

What used to be the country has turned to city over time due to growth.

I'm in that situation. It's the worst of both worlds. Personally, I love city living; all kinds of great stuff is found in big cities. I've lived in the country and loved that, too. But this betwixt and between situation I'm in now suits me not at all.

Gimme a downtown highrise or 40 isolated acres. Anything in between is a compromise I'd rather not make.

 

[ROGER4314]

I was born and raised in Chicago. In the city, people keep to themselves, hardly know even their next door neighbors, stay locked behind supposedly impenetrable doors. The interaction they have is limited and centers around ethnic groups. Puerto Rican, Italian, Mexican, gringo, etc.

Suburban life is even more isolated. In my entire childhood and teen life, I never entered my neighbor's houses. I knew some of them by name but very few. Each home is a kingdom onto itself and I never knew how the other kids grew up nor did they know that alcoholism was the major player in our home.

I moved around a lot, never grew roots and could leave tomorrow without a look back. There was never a connection or commitment.

When I arrived in Texas, it was a whole new game! This is the best place I've ever lived! I have great neighbors and good friends who interact and help each other on a daily basis. The world here is much larger, the view of other localities is much clearer and communication is better and easier.

The answer to the OP question is isolation, insulation, lack of connection to anyone else and a very small view of the world. It makes the Liberal masses compliant and unable to see the bigger picture. They fail to see the connection between trashing the Second Amendment and loss of rights for everyone as a result.

Flash

 

[navyguy]

Cities seem to take all the self sufficiency out of life. And in that, I believe that is the kind of people it attracts. People who don't want to think or do much for themselves. It also insulates people in anonymity as well, and that may also be a desired effect for some as well. If you don't want to deal with who you are or want to be someone you aren't, then move to the city.

All of that! Plus, big cities offer things that small towns can't. Arts and the like. This makes the city dwellers think they are more cultured and "with it". In fact they are mostly posers. "Oh, look at me, I'm going to the theater".

Meh, I like that stuff sometimes and I find to be no big deal to drive in, enjoy and drive back. Now I'll admit, I live I Suburbia and not the country but I'm far enough away where I'm good for now. I'm still looking for a bit of land to buy.


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[Charlie]

Suburbia is the shits!

 

[breakingcontact]

It is so strange how with all the people in the city...people barely speak to each other. In the grocery store, neighbors or on the street...people just dont interact. So freaking weird to me.

Ive recently moved to the far flung edges of suburban Austin. See how the new hood is. Mostly i just think that so many people are tired, stressed and generally depressed that they dont have any energy.

I dont know how the other big cities are in Texas but Austin is getting incredibly expensive to live in the actual city.

 

[shortround]

You can thank LBJ and the progressive's "Great Society."

Take the father out of the family with welfare to dependent mothers.

Generations of children raised without a father in the home to impart normative values.

Havoc results, crime spirals out of control, and more generations are born into poverty and onto Democrat voting rolls.

 

[breakingcontact]

You can thank LBJ and the progressive's "Great Society."

Take the father out of the family with welfare to dependent mothers.

Generations of children raised without a father in the home to impart normative values.

Havoc results, crime spirals out of control, and more generations are born into poverty and onto Democrat voting rolls.

I increasingly see this as the real problem. Once they made it easier for families to get broken up, gov wedged their foot in the door.