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Yeah but the scope of getting up in errybody's business is limited to business that local people care about. As opposed to larger governments getting up in busi

Yeah but the scope of getting up in errybody's business is limited to business that local people care about. As opposed to larger governments getting up in business that people far away care about. Case in point: In my small NE town, there has never been a discussion of "bathroom bills", but the town does care about roosters and water rights. A larger, neighboring town does care about "bathroom bills", spending tons of time and energy arguing over them, and has no concept of what it's like to live next to roosters or rely on well water. I would not like to have that group of people to have any say over the operation of my town, either as republican constituents or as direct voters.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago
>Yeah but the scope of getting up in errybody's business is limited to business that local people care about. Which varies by town but in some towns it's a heck of a lot more than it needs to be and generally speaking correlates with proximity to salt water and inversely with driving time to Boston. Nobody's arguing over bathrooms, they're too busy trying to prevent the local Indian convenience store owners from building another store on a property they just got because the alcohol to other stuff ratio in their existing store offends the sensibilities of the people calling the shots. This is actually what's going on in the town where one of my relatives lives. I could go on and on about how farcical it is but I'll save you the reading. >but the town does care about roosters and water rights. A larger, neighboring town does care about "bathroom bills", spending tons of time and energy arguing over them, and has no concept of what it's like to live next to roosters or rely on well water. I would not like to have that group of people to have any say over the operation of my town, Funny you should mention that. If you ask most people from Boston they probably don't know that the state goes beyond 495. Of course the rest of the state has to follow the state level rules made in Boston for Boston (for the most part). The states to the north aren't so bad but MA is right up there with IL and NY when it comes to one bunch of people in one city calling the shots for everyone else.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago

>Yeah but the scope of getting up in errybody's business is limited to business that local people care about. Which varies by town but in some towns it's a heck of a lot more than it needs to be and generally speaking correlates with proximity to salt water and inversely with driving time to Boston. Nobody's arguing over bathrooms, they're too busy trying to prevent the local Indian convenience store owners from building another store on a property they just got because the alcohol to other stuff ratio in their existing store offends the sensibilities of the people calling the shots. This is actually what's going on in the town where one of my relatives lives. I could go on and on about how farcical it is but I'll save you the reading. >but the town does care about roosters and water rights. A larger, neighboring town does care about "bathroom bills", spending tons of time and energy arguing over them, and has no concept of what it's like to live next to roosters or rely on well water. I would not like to have that group of people to have any say over the operation of my town, Funny you should mention that. If you ask most people from Boston they probably don't know that the state goes beyond 495. Of course the rest of the state has to follow the state level rules made in Boston for Boston (for the most part). The states to the north aren't so bad but MA is right up there with IL and NY when it comes to one bunch of people in one city calling the shots for everyone else.