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Agreed. I also grew up in a semi rural town, on the East Coast, and I wouldn’t ever want to go back. If you’re a minority, in an interracial relationship, or a

Agreed. I also grew up in a semi rural town, on the East Coast, and I wouldn’t ever want to go back. If you’re a minority, in an interracial relationship, or are LGBT, living in a rural area can have serious quality of life issues that often aren’t mentioned.

_mentioned 7y ago
"often aren't mentioned"? Nothing could be further from the truth. Literally 100% of the time that anywhere in the US outside of the major tech cities gets brought up, the comments are full of people claiming that the inhabitants of those areas are racist, stupid, dangerous, unwelcoming, or otherwise bad and undesirable to be near. The double-standards on this website are mind boggling, for how casually and openly people will believe negative stereotypes and repeat discriminatory beliefs when the 'out group' is rural, southern, or even just non-coastal.
- mepiethree 7y ago
  The false dichotomy is that you either live in the bay area or the deep south. Forget about Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Providence, Minneapolis, DC... these places might as well not exist in the mind of HN
- TomVDB 7y ago
  If 25% of the population of a town were rapists, would you agree with the characterization that that town is full of rapists and to stay away from there? In my daily sheltered life in the Bay Area, I hardly ever see overt racism. And when it happens, it bothers me. If I’d see it happen on a daily basis, it would seriously impact my quality of life. I see nothing wrong with saying: don’t move to this or that place because racism is rampant, even if 75% of inhabitants are not.
  - lwhalen 7y ago
    You're making a (large, most likely incorrect) assumption that 25% of a given town is made up of ra(p|c)ists. I suspect if you got down to it, you'd find it's most like 1% or less in the 'bad' areas, and the major difference of the makeup between 'rural' and 'coastal-urban' is that 1% in the rural area is incredibly vocal. See 'the three Cooters theory of Internet Discourse' https://monsterhunternation.com/2019/07/16/the-three-cooters-theory-of-internet-discourse/ https://monsterhunternation.com/2019/07/16/the-three-cooters...

_mentioned 7y ago

"often aren't mentioned"? Nothing could be further from the truth. Literally 100% of the time that anywhere in the US outside of the major tech cities gets brought up, the comments are full of people claiming that the inhabitants of those areas are racist, stupid, dangerous, unwelcoming, or otherwise bad and undesirable to be near. The double-standards on this website are mind boggling, for how casually and openly people will believe negative stereotypes and repeat discriminatory beliefs when the 'out group' is rural, southern, or even just non-coastal.

mepiethree 7y ago
The false dichotomy is that you either live in the bay area or the deep south. Forget about Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Providence, Minneapolis, DC... these places might as well not exist in the mind of HN
TomVDB 7y ago
If 25% of the population of a town were rapists, would you agree with the characterization that that town is full of rapists and to stay away from there? In my daily sheltered life in the Bay Area, I hardly ever see overt racism. And when it happens, it bothers me. If I’d see it happen on a daily basis, it would seriously impact my quality of life. I see nothing wrong with saying: don’t move to this or that place because racism is rampant, even if 75% of inhabitants are not.
- lwhalen 7y ago
  You're making a (large, most likely incorrect) assumption that 25% of a given town is made up of ra(p|c)ists. I suspect if you got down to it, you'd find it's most like 1% or less in the 'bad' areas, and the major difference of the makeup between 'rural' and 'coastal-urban' is that 1% in the rural area is incredibly vocal. See 'the three Cooters theory of Internet Discourse' https://monsterhunternation.com/2019/07/16/the-three-cooters-theory-of-internet-discourse/ https://monsterhunternation.com/2019/07/16/the-three-cooters...