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[–] Rainy-Day-Dream 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
fuck that sounds cozy as heck, that's where I want to live
[–] totes_magotes 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I've lived there. And the land is great. The view is incredible. You don't need to drive somewhere to go hiking; just step out your back door. Had a friend with a waterfall right outside his back door and a view to fucking die for. We hiked all 600 acres of his land which bordered on national forest (and we had legit keys to the forest service gates for their maintenance roads. I hiked so much of his land so often that I could tell you where anything in the area was in the pitch dark, which it frequently was. You had to learn where things were by sound or landmarks. The air sounded a bit "shallow"? There's a mountainside nearby, within a mile. Which one? Let's look at the plants, the stars, and the moon. And jesus fuck, the stars. You could see the Milky Way with your bare eyes. Silent. Fresh and sweet smelling.
A few people are okay. Most of them are batshit insane and stupid as fuck. Some of them have no greater dreams than to live in daddy's broken down and rotting trailer, drink beer all day, and do nothing with themselves. Internet? Nope or spotty. Cell phone signal? Doesn't exist. Groceries? You'd think that chickens and cows laid fucking golden eggs as expensive as those things are. Prejudice in a way that just doesn't even make sense. Religion? You're Christian, period.
In the days before the internet, when I moved to such an area, you literally went back 10 years and that was in a populated area. Watched this guy come in all fucking excited about a "newly released" album. He started to describe one of the tracks. I interrupted him, described it to him instead, and explained that I had heard it 10 years earlier. He was pissed.
We also talking about not just bigotry or prejudice but outright cruel treatment of women and non-whites. It's one thing to not want them there or not take your jobs. It's another to refuse a woman business or shoot up someone's house because they're not Christian.
Towns where the favorite crimes are meth addiction and indecent liberties with a minor. Where the sheriff had a racket going where he'd have cocaine shipped in in corpses. Where a woman turning down the advances of a man was either shunned in town or lost her job or was "randomly" beaten a few nights later.
No, that shit ain't exactly cozy. Pretty, fuck yeah. But not cozy.