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Posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 18:08:42 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by SilverFox on Tue Mar 29 21:57:09 2005. That was the nuts'n' bolts behind 'white flight' from the city decades ago. |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Mar 30 18:22:21 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by Mark Michalovic on Wed Mar 30 15:51:29 2005. plus the basis of our legal system and laws governing land.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by M15 to South Ferry on Wed Mar 30 18:23:20 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by Mark Michalovic on Wed Mar 30 17:58:58 2005. Same here- if a second language wasn't manditory I wouldn't both w/these classes. |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Mar 30 18:25:24 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by RonInBayside on Tue Mar 29 17:04:13 2005. Yes, when it comes down to commerce and money, learning the language of the adopted country is first priority. Hence my puzzlement over ATM's in 8 languages.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by David of Broadway on Wed Mar 30 18:40:38 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by American Pig on Wed Mar 30 15:50:44 2005. And I, as an observant Jew, am effectively excluded from eating at most restaurants.But that's my problem, not the restaurant owners' (unless they were expecting my business). |
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Posted by David of Broadway on Wed Mar 30 18:42:43 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by American Pig on Wed Mar 30 15:38:50 2005. No. Latin. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Wed Mar 30 19:07:01 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 18:08:42 2005. Encouraged by unethical "bvlock busting" realtors who saw a way to make a quick buck while openly encouraging racial stereotypes and racial hatred. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Wed Mar 30 19:08:35 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by Fred G on Wed Mar 30 18:25:24 2005. Did you forget about visitors?We want to encourage foreign business people and tourists to come here. Why not offer them access to ATMs, vending machines, TVMs on the LIRR in their languages? |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Wed Mar 30 19:30:20 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by Mark Michalovic on Wed Mar 30 18:00:54 2005. I had a friend in high school who was first generation Indian-American. He spoke with the same Mississippi accent as everyone else in school, but he could immitate his dad's Punjabi accent pretty well. He used to pretend he was fresh off the boat whenever he wanted to mess with the clerks at McDonald's!Of course, if the Mickey D's clerk were a bit more on the ball,* they would've wondered why a fresh-off-the-boat Indian was eating hamburgers :) * = I know, don't say it, if they were a bit more on the ball they wouldn't be working there in the first place. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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Posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 19:42:09 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by RonInBayside on Wed Mar 30 19:07:01 2005. TRUTH! |
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Posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 19:45:31 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by Mark Michalovic on Wed Mar 30 15:53:10 2005. Correct. Anyone ever heard of Salem, Mass??/ |
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Posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 19:47:35 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by RonInBayside on Wed Mar 30 16:50:05 2005. And let's not forget slavery....ANOTHER whole ball of wax altogeher, but related to how the 'original immigrants' treated people of other races/nationalities. |
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Posted by Train Dude on Wed Mar 30 19:51:17 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by Mark Michalovic on Wed Mar 30 15:53:10 2005. And it's still a bastian of free liberal principals - as long as you agree with the liberals. |
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Posted by Mark Michalovic on Wed Mar 30 21:09:13 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by Peter Rosa on Wed Mar 30 19:30:20 2005. The answer is in the story itself. In the Punjab state of northern India, most people practice the Sikh faith rather than Hinduism. Sikhs can eat all the burgers they want!Mark |
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Posted by Mark Michalovic on Wed Mar 30 21:15:41 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by Train Dude on Wed Mar 30 19:51:17 2005. It's really one of those curious twists of history, isn't it? Puritans, with their strict morals somehow laid the foundation for a very liberal modern Massachusetts. But it kind of makes sense to me in a way I'm not sure how to put into words.Mark |
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Posted by American Pig on Wed Mar 30 22:29:59 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 18:06:21 2005. Adam, I hate to ruffle your feathers, but in reality the MAJORITY of people that live in the Americas (combining North and South) speak Spanish. Those that speak English are in the MINORITY, so we have no right here in the USA -- only ONE country among manyThis is total bullshit. Hemispheres have no legal government or authority. If a country wants to have an official language, it can go ahead. If people in Mexico want to speak Spanish, great, but if people from Mexico want to live in the United States, they should speak English. And conversely Americans moving to Mexico should speak the language of the Mexicans (Spanish). In addition, if you want to talk about capturing land and absorbing it culturally, why is it that the majority of people in the Americas speak a European language? Why don't you rail against that? |
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Posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 22:49:22 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by American Pig on Wed Mar 30 22:29:59 2005. All I was alluding to is the fact that the USA is (with the exception of the Great White North) amid SPANISH LANGUAGE nations: urgo what's the point of a SMALL MINORITY of people here in the USA beating their chests in favor of English as our 'national language'? by the way why Uh, BTW, why is it that English should be our 'official language' when that is the name of the blokes whose arses we kicked so we could become a 'free nation' in the first place? |
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Posted by American Pig on Wed Mar 30 22:54:11 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 22:49:22 2005. Again, why does it matter? English is the primary language of the United States. Do you feel we should all speak some other language instead? |
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Posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 23:01:16 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by American Pig on Wed Mar 30 22:54:11 2005. Not necessarily. However, one of the great failures of our educational system is that it isn't mandatory for students to learn at LEAST one foreign language and speak it fluently. Most other civilized countries in the world make it mandatory...I guess we gotta be different and expect everyone ELSE to learn our language, but we're not suppose to understand anyone else. Sounds kinda one-sided and chauvinist to me. |
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Posted by American Pig on Wed Mar 30 23:02:12 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 23:01:16 2005. On that we can agree. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Wed Mar 30 23:21:39 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 19:47:35 2005. Britain discarded slavery before we did...of course, that emancipation rule was optional for the Boers... |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Wed Mar 30 23:22:50 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by American Pig on Wed Mar 30 22:29:59 2005. Spanish IS a European language. |
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Posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 02:41:01 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by American Pig on Wed Mar 30 15:50:44 2005. That was the example I was looking to use, but I was afraid it would elicit negative reaction.If the sign is in English, at least it allows those to know what is going on in there and make the conscious choice to not patronize it, rather than wonder whether it would be worthwhile or not because the shingle is in some cryptic code. On the other hand, suppose (*&^(^%$$&^%*& meant "whorehouse" in some foreign language, and because you couldn't read the sign or look behind the frosted glass, you were excluded. The barrier could be positive, i.e. a religious goods store of no interest to you, or it could be negative, i.e. a whorehouse, food store, or other establishment, preventing you from partaking in your interest. |
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Posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 02:47:19 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by BMT Dude on Wed Mar 30 18:06:21 2005. Doug, as a sovereign nation, we have the right to choose our language, regardless of what the "majority" surrounding us speaks.Should Brazil then be forced to speak Spanish instead of Portuguese because it is surrounded by many more Spanish-speaking nations than we are? |
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Posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 02:52:14 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by RonInBayside on Wed Mar 30 08:48:47 2005. You know, Ron, for all our differences, even YOU could make me laugh. |
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Posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 03:04:46 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by David of Broadway on Wed Mar 30 06:43:07 2005. I don't attend sporting events. I've never eaten at a McDonald's. I've never been to church on Sunday.I don't attend the Opera, but if someone were hawking tickets outside Lincoln Center, I could read that they are printed in English and not buy them even though the hawker is yelling "KHLAV KHALASH!" while holding up the tickets. At least McDonald's puts a sign up in English, and has an internationally-recognized trademark that will allow you not to mistake a McDonald's for a ShangChai (Kosher Chinese place in Brooklyn, which marks itself as "KOSHER CHINESE FOOD" in case some hungry anti-Semite wondered what the hell ShangChai was supposed to signify). Churches have an internationally-recognized symbol that adorns their sanctuaries so that once you see it you can avoid it. No problems there. There is no need to renounce your citizenship because you don't participate in many "cultural" mores of our society. But you don't establish your own mores to the exclusion of others by advertising them out of reach of the mainstream. |
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Posted by Richard Rabinowitz on Thu Mar 31 03:20:35 2005, in response to Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by brooklynQB on Mon Mar 28 13:10:01 2005. Do you hate people? Why?Only when I'm in a bad mood, and the hate is for obvious reasons (i.e., because I'm pissed off). |
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Posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 03:27:33 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by RonInBayside on Wed Mar 30 16:50:05 2005. You and BMT Dude both got me here. White flag on this segment of the thread. |
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Posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 04:55:43 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by RonInBayside on Wed Mar 30 19:07:01 2005. Goading a person to act by providing misinformation or playing on fears is despicable, reprehensible, repugnant, odious, and a hundred other similar adjectives.Two scenarios, however, come to mind where one concern is real, and the other is built on perception. Both can be quite compelling, and both are based on a form of fear. Witness: A thirtysomething professional moves into a neighborhood where the median age of the neighbors is 50. Over ten years, that median drops to 25. He hears more and louder music on the streets. He sees an increasing number of people outside at all hours of the night. Street furniture is becoming vandalized or stolen, and drug paraphernalia, beer bottles, and other refuse lines the streets. He may love youth, and can rationalize that not all 25-year-olds act like that, but the very real value of his home is in jeopardy, from a quick read of the tax rolls. Does he try to "speak" with the youths about what's causing them to act rowdy, or does he get out of there like a bat out of hell to preserve his investment, nee, nearly his entire net worth? Would he be justified? The second scenario sees an Italian-American man of any adult age, living in a neighborhood that is 85% Italian, with the other 15% being predominantly Jewish. He's lived there all his life, having enjoyed the local Italian specialty shops, the culture, and the sense of community and family amongst his brethren. Over ten years, Chinese and Mexican immigrants come to dominate the neighborhood, making Italians merely 5% of the residents. The man says that he can "live with it" initially, but then realizes through experience: The Chinese and Mexicans in his neighborhood don't make such good cappuccino or lasagna, and since he can't understand a word they are saying, he feels isolated even on his own doorstep. Even though his home has appreciated in value, he doesn't want to sell and leave his roots, but he is becoming depressed. He relents, sells to a Chinese lady, and moves to a neighborhood more within his comfort level. Now here's a person who didn't care either way about immigration -- we don't even know what his political views were -- he tried to deal with the effects of it, but couldn't. Many others wouldn't take the time and have the patience he did. Does he "hate" others? Is he a protagonist of "white flight?" Is he somehow some evil "bu$h supporting fascist" who is really Hitler in disguise? The issue isn't as cut-and-dried as "Pro-immigrant/change/open-mind: Good. Anti-immigrant/change/open-mind: Bad." There are many intricacies that create legitimate arguments on both sides. While "white flight" occurred partly through the act of intermediaries looking to cash in on fears, the true underlying cause of "white flight" was, in fact, fear. And while the ignorant or truly fearful left because of blacks and other ethnicities themselves, I can only guess that many others left because they feared a negative change in their real financial condition, and few of them wanted to hang around and see what the results actually were should they have been negative and they were out their life savings. If whites' moves were based on ignorance, it's their money, and their lives, in my opinion. We can deride their ignorance, but we can also serve to educate and inform. But people have to want to be educated and informed which is something many of the "intellectuals" on this board don't seem to understand. And they will be less willing to be educated or try new experiences if they are going to be mocked, scolded, ridiculed, or assumed to "hate" people because of their shortcomings, which they may or may not feel they have, or their deep-seated experiences which may not jibe with yours. |
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Posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 05:20:27 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by brooklynQB on Wed Mar 30 14:42:08 2005. Brooklyn, I never said that you called me Hitler. I said someone else did; and that you were like him in just wanting to mock me rather than attempt to refute my claims.You’ve had plenty of time in THREE DAYS to come up with holes in my arguments. BMT Dude and RonInBayside did. Others simply broadly interpreted my arguments, at which point I had to make them more specific. Even you came up with a minor score in suggesting that things weren’t much safer 100 years ago in Manhattan, for which I credit you now. Let me bold the points in your previous post to show where you were just a cheap carnival barker: Here's something to chew on: If I'm a Chinatown store owner, where 95% of my customers are either chinese-americans with strong cultural roots, or Chinese born/visitors, why the heck should my store be in english? What, so I can sell crap to Nebraskan tourists who will never come back anyway? If you're a true NYer, you'll use your....*drumroll*....BRAIN, and see that "Ooh, there is (food) in there, so it must be a (foodstore). Then you'll go in and sak where the duck sauce is. I'm sure they'll at least be able to give you some sort of answer or even show you where. And the funny thing is, your probably the same retard that goes to Paris and expects the matradiee to speak english as well. I bet the natives in Paris think your an ass as well. So don't do it to others. In your subsequent reply: I did argue merits. But really, even if you aren't that "Paris" ass, many people of your ilk are. The fact is, you're insulted that those Chinese, Russian, and Spanish newcomers don't cater to your language. Hey, it's their loss, not yours. I never called you Hitler, and I speak the truth that I have never called another person Hilter. As for calling their veiws Nazi-ish, some of them are. The fact is, you're taking this way too personally. I for one can appreacte the value of immigrants for the fact that many of the expericnecs I have had in life have involved the good people being immigrants. If there's no immigrants, there is no America. Both sides of the poltical aisle realize that and so do the true Americans. Time for you to catch up. Now you've gone from mocking carnival barker to presumptious little snotnose. I count no fewer than four convenient presumptions on your part about who I am when you don't even know who I am. I've seen both sides of you: The one who wants to debate, and the other who just wants to make fun. I like the former, thank you. |
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Posted by BMT Dude on Thu Mar 31 06:20:45 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 03:04:46 2005. Adam, I didn't know you were aware of The 'ShangChai'? It's just down the road from me. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Thu Mar 31 06:27:04 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 02:41:01 2005. "On the other hand, suppose (*&^(^%$$&^%*& meant "whorehouse" in some foreign language, and because you couldn't read the sign or look behind the frosted glass, you were excluded."And if you were a relatively naive person the advertisement "Full Service Massage" wouldn't be a clue that the place was really a house of prostitution. Last time I checked, there were only two counties in Nevada where prostitution is legal - and they call themselves chicken ranches. Your whole premise is nonsensical - you don't have other things to think about besides bashing immigrants? Is your life that empty? |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Thu Mar 31 06:28:56 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 02:47:19 2005. The United States has never had an official religion or an official language. English is the defacto standard, here, not the de-jure standard.You need to study some history and civics - you didn't get very much of it in school. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Thu Mar 31 06:35:49 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 04:55:43 2005. These are interesting stories, all of which mean very little in the end. Things change over time; if you're flexible and have good social skills you can deal with them. If you don't, you're outta luck and it's your own fault.You can substitute "American-born" home-grown in the above stories too - immigration isn't necessarily the root of this. ZYou don't have to be an immigrant to throw furniture out your window. And why did the first caucasians move out of the neighborhood? Lack of social skills? I've lived in many ethnically diverse neghborhoods and found them to be stable and good places to live, even as they change over time. You hold a lot of ignorant stereotypes in your head, dude. Time for you to get some help dealing with your insecurities. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Thu Mar 31 06:36:51 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 05:20:27 2005. You're not really debating. Stop being disingenuous. |
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Posted by David of Broadway on Thu Mar 31 07:10:04 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 02:41:01 2005. No more negative than if there were no whorehouse, food store, or other establishment at that location. |
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Posted by David of Broadway on Thu Mar 31 07:14:18 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 03:04:46 2005. I've seen many events in the Jewish world and in the academic world advertised in such a way that would be incomprensible to those outside the intended audience, even if all of the words happen to appear in a dictionary of the English language (and in the former case, they don't). |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Thu Mar 31 07:43:42 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 31 03:04:46 2005. "But you don't establish your own mores to the exclusion of others by advertising them out of reach of the mainstream."Sure you can. And, so long as you don't trample on somebody elses' the Constitution guarantees you the right to do so. |
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Posted by brooklynQB on Thu Mar 31 19:05:20 2005, in response to Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by brooklynQB on Mon Mar 28 13:10:01 2005. Urban flight creates ‘rural rebound’Millions trade city life for the country's wide open spacesBy Don Teague Correspondent NBC News Updated: 6:31 p.m. ET March 31, 2005ROCKWALL, Texas - You'll have to forgive Steve and Rhonda Linehan if they look a little out of place. Until six months ago the Linehans and their children were city dwellers in Orlando, Fla. advertisement "We had a strip of grass and that was it," says Rhonda. Today, home is a 35-acre farm in Rockwall County, Texas, half an hour from Dallas. "It's really hard to trick or treat out here," jokes Steve. Their nearest neighbors are 12 horses, four donkeys, a goat, some longhorn cattle and three very happy pigs. "The big appeal was the open space; No. 1 for the kids to play, and No. 2 it’s nice for the adults to have the open space surrounding you as well," says Steve. They're not the first people to chuck big city life for farm living. Remember "Green Acres?" Population researchers say families like the Linehans are part of a "rural rebound" that added more than 5 million residents to non-metropolitan areas during the 1990s. Today, rural areas within commuting distance of cities are booming. "There is a very strong trend of people moving beyond the edge of the suburbs of very large cities into nearby rural areas," says John Cromartie, a population specialist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Many are baby boomers looking for greener retirement pastures. Others, like Jim Purcell, want their children to experience a simple life. He commutes from his five-acre farm outside of Atlanta to his job as a deputy sheriff in the city. "I think the quality of life is much better," he says. "You appreciate things better, you notice sunsets more. That's what really counts." But population growth in rural areas comes at a steep price to farmers who say they are being squeezed out. Rockwall is the fourth-fastest growing county in America. A new subdivision of homes on five-acre lots sits on 1,000 acres that farmer J.D. Jacobs used to lease to grow corn. "My son wants to farm," says Jacobs. "But if he does, he'll have to move out of this area." As for the Linehans, Rhonda says she "wouldn't trade it for anything. I wouldn't go back." She won't have to. 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We have your ticket to all the action, including Major League Baseball, NBA, concerts, and much more. www.stubhub.com Get listed here -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cover | News | Business | Sports | Tech/Science | Entertainment | Travel | Health | Opinions | Weather | Local News Newsweek | Today Show | Nightly News | Dateline NBC | Meet the Press | MSNBC TV About MSNBC.com | Newsletters | RSS | Search | Help | News Tools | Jobs | Contact Us | Terms and Conditions | Privacy © 2005 MSNBC.com Try MSN Internet Software for FREE! MSN Home | My MSN | Hotmail | Shopping | Money | People & Chat | Search Feedback | Help © 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of Use Advertise MSN Privacy Statement GetNetWise Anti-Spam Policy Don't get me wrong, the country is absolutley beatiful. But that's what it is...COUNTRY. Now, any time I want to go duck hutin' or smell the fresh air, I'll have some pushy ass soccer mom and her 2 little brats running around me >:( If ya'll hate people, go move to a desert island. Leave America for the people who actually like socailizing with people :). |
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Posted by SilverFox on Fri Apr 1 04:22:58 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by RonInBayside on Thu Mar 31 06:36:51 2005. Stop being disingenuous.This coming from someone who, despite frequent good points, resorts to calling his opposition various forms of "racist," "insecure," "lacking in social skills," and "immigrant bashing," as if that's the way it has to be because he deemed it to be so. I didn't come on here to hear how my views are "racist" or how I am somehow lacking in social skills reflexively because of certain views of mine. Your judgment of me for my views epitomizes the point of the framer of this thread better than any words I could muster. American Pig was right about you, and nobody has called him less than a competent debater. It may mean nothing to you coming from someone like me, but in your pride of being able to get along with people, you just turned this one off. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Fri Apr 1 07:23:50 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by SilverFox on Fri Apr 1 04:22:58 2005. "This coming from someone who, despite frequent good points, resorts to calling his opposition various forms of "racist," "insecure," "lacking in social skills," and "immigrant bashing," as if that's the way it has to be because he deemed it to be so."If your posts weren't screaming with those messages, I wouldn't have made those observations. I hope you are reaching out for help, and that you receive it. "I didn't come on here to hear how my views are "racist" or how I am somehow lacking in social skills reflexively because of certain views of mine" But you cannot dictate how others will respond to your posts. I'm not actually making fun of you. You genuinely could use some mentorship and guidance. |
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Posted by Dand124 on Sun Oct 17 10:51:59 2010, in response to Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by brooklynQB on Mon Mar 28 13:10:01 2005. No that’s not the problem |
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