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re: Went back to my hometown for the first time in 15 years
Posted on 10/3/19 at 12:32 pm to Potato Smasher
Posted on 10/3/19 at 12:32 pm to Potato Smasher
Towns live and die on their industry and ability to have decent jobs for the masses. When they lose that, they deteriorate. And every town has a poor section. It just happens.
I'm older and part of the problem with some neighborhoods had to do with white flight back in the 60's and 70's. Look at Birmingham. Anybody with money lives on the other side of the mountain in Hoover, Mountain Brook, etc... The west side has deteriorated.
We would all be better off if there was a good cultural mix in our neighborhoods that taught our children that people are just people. But it seems like the races all want to be with their like kinds. This is most evident in Churches which are getting better, but are still pretty divided by race and money.
I hope I don't get banned for saying this. Just an opinion.
I'm older and part of the problem with some neighborhoods had to do with white flight back in the 60's and 70's. Look at Birmingham. Anybody with money lives on the other side of the mountain in Hoover, Mountain Brook, etc... The west side has deteriorated.
We would all be better off if there was a good cultural mix in our neighborhoods that taught our children that people are just people. But it seems like the races all want to be with their like kinds. This is most evident in Churches which are getting better, but are still pretty divided by race and money.
I hope I don't get banned for saying this. Just an opinion.
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Posted on 10/3/19 at 12:41 pm to CAD703X
Howard Griffens, something I haven't heard in many, many yeard. Had one in my hometown, Oak Grove
Posted on 10/3/19 at 12:44 pm to Wednesday
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Life in small towns before Walmart, meth and opiates is worth remembering.
Underrated comment here.
Posted on 10/3/19 at 12:49 pm to AggieHank86
Not to mention leaving out Tom Bombadil and the Barrowdowns where the blade that kills the WitchKing is found. Critical piece of the saga.
Posted on 10/3/19 at 12:50 pm to Potato Smasher
I went back to my hometown after 20 years. I got lost in my old neighborhood. It was very depressing.
Posted on 10/3/19 at 1:04 pm to Zach
I still live and work in my old hometown.
Have sadly watched it slowly turn to crap.... would have happened much quicker if there hadn't been a nucleus of people willing to work hard and spend money to keep it solvent.
All communities aren't as lucky.
One bad city administration can all but destroy a small town. That's what happened to us in just a few short years.
But we're not dead yet. Got the marxists out last election. To quote PDJT... "we'll see what happens".
Have sadly watched it slowly turn to crap.... would have happened much quicker if there hadn't been a nucleus of people willing to work hard and spend money to keep it solvent.
All communities aren't as lucky.
One bad city administration can all but destroy a small town. That's what happened to us in just a few short years.
But we're not dead yet. Got the marxists out last election. To quote PDJT... "we'll see what happens".
Posted on 10/3/19 at 6:07 pm to Auburn80
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We would all be better off if there was a good cultural mix in our neighborhoods that taught our children that people are just people.
Robert Putnam’s and other research suggests otherwise. Your recipe leads to a low trust environment and the problems we are seeing today across America, because people aren’t just people. It just is what it is, and many problems in America/Europe would be alleviated if everyone would accept that “the king has no clothes”
Posted on 10/3/19 at 7:37 pm to geaux88
The Waterboys wrote a beautiful song about it too
Waterboys - Nearest Thing To Hip
Waterboys - Nearest Thing To Hip
Posted on 10/3/19 at 7:57 pm to jchamil
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Sometimes it is depressing to go to the hometown of your childhood. Appropriate for this thread and safe for work
Thought for sure this would be Bruce Springsteen's My Hometown
Springsteen's hometown of Freehold, NJ is a great little town near the Jersey Shore.
It's actually a bit reminiscent of many southern towns. It's pretty quaint and boring and largely made up of white middle class folks.
It's amazing how he peptrayed it as such a depressing terrible place, yet, as he points out in his broadway special, he now lives 10 miles from his hometown.
Springsteen, whom I love as a musician, is like all the other left wing white dumbasses. They complain and moan about their essentially perfect surroundings, then protest and try to change it, then realize once they've destroyed the civilization, how good they had it.
North Jersey is an absolute shite hole, yes, but Middle, western, and South Jersey are actually pretty typical middle America.
Posted on 10/3/19 at 8:06 pm to Ancient Astronaut
quote:Thug Life. It's what you get when people can't process information.
Same thing happened in Mandeville when it became St. Bernard
Posted on 10/3/19 at 8:15 pm to tigerpawl
I grew up in Baton Rouge in the 1960s and it was an awesome (if smelly) place to grow up. I lived elsewhere for 40+ years and was very happy to return in my retirement. I really like BR. I grew up on the SE side and returned to it in 2013. BR doesn't smell like it used to (thanks, EPA).
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