re: Have you moved from a larger to city to a small town / countryside? How was it?

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it feels like I stepped back in time 30 years

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There's a higher concentration of old people in small towns, and old people, of any race, can be some of the most racist people alive. I've heard my dead grandmother (middle of nowhere Indiana) say things off hand, and gone, wha? But I've also watched far more vicious tirades from old black men in Grambling. Old people are "set in their ways," lol.

But, I think the point he's getting at is that because there tends to be a higher level of personal engagement in smaller towns, people are going to remember what you said or did, so many people's tongues get held a bit. People in suburbs like Cypress probably haven't eaten knuckles since junior high. If I called someone a n* or a sp1c in Brookshire, for instance, I'm probably going to rightfully end up on the ground.