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re: Have you ever felt unwelcome in a small town?
Posted on 5/16/25 at 4:43 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 5/16/25 at 4:43 pm to athenslife101
Y'all must be or look like bitches. My experiences have been the opposite all over the country. Maybe it's my southern accent and charming personality.
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Posted on 5/16/25 at 4:55 pm to Loup
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Saratoga, Wyoming
We've been there twice. '14 and '17.
Love that place. The Snowies are a hidden gem.
Always make it a point to use their hot springs pool.
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little bar
Hotel Wolf?
This post was edited on 5/16/25 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 5/16/25 at 5:05 pm to imjustafatkid
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grew up in the Black Belt of Alabama. I'm white.
I’ve been there a lot and never felt unwelcome in most towns. Uniontown and Selma being the outliers, frick those two shitholes
Demopolis, Aliceville, Eutaw, Greensboro no issue
Posted on 5/16/25 at 5:10 pm to deltaland
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Selma
Absolute shithole. I'll take Crime Bluff, Arkansas over Selma.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 5:24 pm to Lexis Dad
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Hotel Wolf?
It was in the hot springs resort. I crashed a wedding there and hung out with a bunch of dudes from north Dakota all night. Awesome folks up there.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 5:26 pm to TDTOM
Yes. Francavilla a Mare, a small beach town in Abruzzo, Italy. Should be renamed the Hills Have Eyes of Italy. From the second we got out of our car, every person we walked by gave us the evil eye. I speak fluent Nnapulitano, the same language they speak in Abruzzo. Didn't matter I was speaking their language, people refused to respond. The only two responses I got were at two separate restaurants, who refused to serve us, both telling me they served only locals. Got back in the car, drove to Pescara and had a great time.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 5:38 pm to deltaland
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I’ve been there a lot and never felt unwelcome in most towns.
Yep. They're great places to visit.
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Uniontown and Selma being the outliers, frick those two shitholes
Most of them are the same, you just have to live there to see it.
This post was edited on 5/16/25 at 5:39 pm
Posted on 5/16/25 at 5:49 pm to athenslife101
I heard a story about a guy driving to L.A. He busted a tire right outside a place called the Dew Drop Inn...
He barely made it out by tricking the locals. He kicked a guy with green teeth. He even said that guy was friends with long hair, hippie type pinko figs and said the guy even voted for George McGovern for President.
Now when he needs to go L.A. he goes via Omaha.
He barely made it out by tricking the locals. He kicked a guy with green teeth. He even said that guy was friends with long hair, hippie type pinko figs and said the guy even voted for George McGovern for President.
Now when he needs to go L.A. he goes via Omaha.
This post was edited on 5/16/25 at 6:03 pm
Posted on 5/16/25 at 5:51 pm to spslayto
I legit laughed out loud at this. Perfect meme for the OP’s question…and great movie.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 5:55 pm to athenslife101
Browning and Crow Agency. Do not recommend if you're white and traveling by yourself.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 6:31 pm to athenslife101
The “locals” in Key West are about as bad as I’ve seen anywhere in the world
Posted on 5/16/25 at 6:35 pm to athenslife101
Junction, Texas. Flew in to secure evidence from a vehicular accident. Sheriff/tow truck owner said we had to stay till Tuesday for their Town Meeting for such request. Spent 3 days at some motel across from the airport there counting deer.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 7:22 pm to AUTimbo
Posted on 5/16/25 at 8:03 pm to Loup
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Hotel Wolf?
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It was in the hot springs resort
Gotcha.
We've been welcomed with open arms both times We've been there. Need to go back.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 8:08 pm to AUTimbo
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I was passing through a small hicktown in Washington state back after I got out of the service when the local sheriff made it a point to let me know “ my kind” weren’t welcome in his town.
shite got real and he soon regretted his decision.
Might have been the original FAFO
signed,
John R.
Col Troutman probably told the sheriff to let you go and you'd get drunk and end up in the drunk tank in Seattle.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 8:11 pm to Mizz-SEC
Go to Appalachia, its the worst.
Go to any small town in West Virginia and drive down a residential street (a trailer every quarter mile type residential street) and you will get mean mugged at or if not, they're passed out on fentanyl.
Spent time there, expected friendly country folk, saw a bunch of suspicious, ignorant, tatted up, drug addict losers.
Obviously not all people are that way and there is a history of not trusting outsiders in the sticks, but think about it, 100 years ago there wasn't internet to track someone's past, it was much easier to commit crime, abandon your family, run up debt and bolt out of town to never be seen again, so I get why people wanted to live somewhere they knew everyone and were suspicious of outsiders.
Go to any small town in West Virginia and drive down a residential street (a trailer every quarter mile type residential street) and you will get mean mugged at or if not, they're passed out on fentanyl.
Spent time there, expected friendly country folk, saw a bunch of suspicious, ignorant, tatted up, drug addict losers.
Obviously not all people are that way and there is a history of not trusting outsiders in the sticks, but think about it, 100 years ago there wasn't internet to track someone's past, it was much easier to commit crime, abandon your family, run up debt and bolt out of town to never be seen again, so I get why people wanted to live somewhere they knew everyone and were suspicious of outsiders.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 8:20 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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Lived in Morristown, Tennessee for three years. Small town East Tennessee can feel that way.
Yeah, years ago we were visiting the in-laws in Alcoa and drove up around Maynardsville to see where my wife's grandfather grew up. People around those small towns seemed to be a little weary of our out of state plates.
Stopped to get gas at a store in one of the small towns around that area and walking into the store, it just felt off. People in there weren't necessarily unfriendly, they just seemed very standoffish.
It was like the conversation came to a halt when we walked through the door and all eyes turned on us. Kind of creepy.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 8:26 pm to athenslife101
Only once. In BFE Mississippi. Had some field hands with me and a couple of them were black. The locals at the truck stop diner, the only place for to eat for a half hour, made it pretty clear they weren’t happy the black guys were there.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 8:30 pm to Keys Open Doors
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every single person we saw was African-American.
I didn't know Mississippi had that many people moving there from Africa,
Posted on 5/16/25 at 8:33 pm to Packer
I think we were in Dubuque, Iowa, in winter and stopped at a restaurant. We stood out when we entered a store or a gas station or a restaurant en masse. At this restaurant it was particularly bright inside, so there weren't any dark corners to hide in. All these local guys were looking at us like, "What are these guys? Is that a woman or a man?
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