Comments: I am a stranger here, yet it fits like an old sock.
"Some time ago, I moved from silicon valley to a place pleasantly undiverse. People leave their doors unlocked when they leave their houses. The kids are respectful.
By the roadside, one sees unattended fruitstands. You take the fruit and drop the money in a box. Small children wander off unsupervised. I am a stranger here, yet it fits like an old sock."
From what he has said here, I assume the 'undiversity' he is referring to is the diverse moral standards we have in todays' world with its Moral Relativity gumming up the whole damn civilization.
If that's the case: "I wanna go home too!!!"
www . youtube . com/watch?v=4dceBTg2S5k
There's no place like home, there's no place like home... :)
Posted by John Condon at August 1, 2015 10:35 AM
So Jim,
Where is this 'Shangri-la' you speak of?
Posted by John Condon at August 1, 2015 10:37 AM
My next door neighbor Jim Bond's mother lives up the road about a mile and right now there are about a dozen small baskets on the front porch wall packed with home grown Celebrity tomatoes priced at $4 a basket. She grows them in her side garden and is 93 years old. There is a peanut butter jar on that porch wall with some paper money and coins. I bought a basket yesterday and will buy another this upcoming week, and whatever else she sits up there. On down the road 87 yo Bud Smith has his tractor drawn wagon sitting along the road slammed with 16" dia cantelopes at $3 each - the juiciest you've ever seen. I don't like cantelopes but my wife will devour one a week for the rest of the season. The tri-color corn will be coming off the stalks in another month and that's when things get really exciting around here. This afternoon I spent 4 hours over at our other next door neighbors property putting about 200 rounds of various calibers down range on his own person range and no one had anything to say about it. My greatest regret is clinging to *society* far longer than any sane person should, but I'm so glad we did finally abandon that sinking, rotted ship. 15,000 people live in this entire county and after 9 years I have not met 1 rude person. Yes, there are pockets of civility populated by real people in this country but you have to seek them out. I doubt most people want that sort of life.
Posted by ghostsniper at August 1, 2015 3:06 PM
One more thing. There are only 7 negro's in this entire county and crime is almost non-existent. Most people today would say this place is pretty boring but I say that depends on your perspective because I am never bored and no one else around here is either. Being around gazillions of people is not my idea of fun. BTW, someone told me those negro's live here but I never see them. The only time I see any is when I must go to a big city. That's one entire sector of the US population that I almost never encounter and certainly don't miss at all.
Posted by ghostsniper at August 1, 2015 3:13 PM
We are planning to move.
It cost me $80 to get the lock fixed so that the real estate agent could put a lock box on the door.
We hadn't needed a lock in the previous 17 years.
Now I need to lock my door.
Posted by bilejones at August 1, 2015 6:23 PM
My suggestion to anyone living in such an idyllic place: Shut your mouth.
Once the word gets out, your little piece of heaven will be ruined. People who want to leave the problem areas will bring the problems with them.
And worse, now with HUD's new disparate impact database the feds will force the problem into your neighborhood. Nobody will be allowed to feel safe.
Posted by Clinton at August 1, 2015 10:49 PM
"My suggestion to anyone living in such an idyllic place: Shut your mouth."
Sadly, yes.
I remember reading, in my local papers, articles the early 80's that the word on the street for my Hometown was 'Moneyapolis'; a slang term for Welfare Cheats and high living off the largess of a city on the edge of the western praries. Its twin, and residence of the our State Capitol, was nicknamed the 'largest small town' in the country as its streets were quiet and peaceful after dark (I should know as I did security there at that time)
Not anymore.
So yes, Clinton, the location of Jims' "Shangri-la" needs to be hidden. I wrote what I did because the location was loudly absent and thought I'd have a bit o' fun out here in cyberspace.
This 'moral diversity' of Multi-culturalism is an EPIC failure as I also remember what the neighborhood of my youth was like and what it is NOW.
Posted by John Condon at August 2, 2015 8:45 AM