Do You Have Any "Citiots" For Neighbors?

[stonecypher]

This should be a mandatory handout for every city dweller moving out to the country IMHO!

http://www.granitehillsdesign.com/ru...ralHandout.pdf

Anybody got a good story about "citiots" in their neck of the woods???

[cathleenc]

neighbors can be irritating anywhere.

We moved from the city to the country last year. I'm sure glad no one felt so full of themselves to hand us one of those.

[big rockpile]

Well shoot I've done messed up on this many times.Not so much since I'm older.

Take blind curves, or the crests of hills, slowly
enough that you could safely stop if you were
to come upon an animal, child, or stopped
vehicle in the road ahead of you.

Use to always be flying down the Back Roads.Seems I always was almost hitting a Buddy of mine that was doing the same.Both our wives was in the Floorboard.

Me and my Wife use to race on the way Home.Plus I had a Stock Car I would run on Back Roads.

big rockpile

[NJ Rich]

In a near-by town, Belmar's (NJ) Mayor Pringle has made remarks about Staten Island visitors. Yes, you can Google that one.

I have had more problems with some "long time residents" than with some of the new comers. Yes, the new comers want all the things they left behind and don't have enough good sense to enjoy getting away from those things.

I hate: steet lights; neighbors who are afraid of the dark and want to light up the whole area (I let a new neighbor know what I thought about puting up street lights); side walks; keep out, leave before dusk; keep off signs; no hunting signs; PETA people; anti-gun people; general "do-gooders" who have there own agenda; people who want to change what we are and the rules to suit themselves; teachers who step outside their responsibilites and try to tell our children we are not nice people because we hunt and own guns and most self serving politicians from local on up. Please refer to Mayor Pringle as a start.

Did I leave you off the list. Let me know and I'll add you in. Although I live in NJ (and wish I didn't) a long time ago where I lived was country with country folks all around. You could always count on a neighbor giving you a hand; cup of flour; loan a tool or vehicle and share what they had. I hunted all over and always helped the farmers who gave me the "privilege" to hunt their land.

One of the worst neighbors was a "local" and he hated almost everyone, except me and he didn't dare say anything to me. He moved and the neighborhood is better without him. Thankfully, those still here are good neighbors who wave as they drive by and sometimes stop to say hello and will help if needed. Mike, the man across the road, loaned me his long ladder today since mine wouldn't reach where I needed to go. He and his wife are great neighbors.

But, it seems most of the newcomers want to change almost everything. I would gladly tell them to go back where they came from. No, I am not politcally correct and don't care BTW!!!!

Bottrom line: You don't need to be from the city to be a pain to the long time residents.

[Gercarson]

Originally Posted by NJ Rich

I hate: steet lights; neighbors who are afraid of the dark and want to light up the whole area (I let a new neighbor know what I thought about puting up street lights); side walks; keep out, leave before dusk; keep off signs; no hunting signs; PETA people; anti-gun people; general "do-gooders" who have there own agenda; people who want to change what we are and the rules to suit themselves; teachers who step outside their responsibilites and try to tell our children we are not nice people because we hunt and own guns and most self serving politicians from local on up.

Bottrom line: You don't need to be from the city to be a pain to the long time residents.

Well Mayor Pringle
I hate "street lights" -but after the "long time residents" stole me blind, I found that a security light was well worth getting used to. I don't know what you mean by "sidewalks" but after the "mud season" it sure comes in handy and even my grandmother had a nice long walk pured. Keep out, keep off, no hunting? I suppose you've never been sued by a local for some "mishap" on your property?

[sidepasser]

I have my share of citiots to deal with, folks that move to the country and immediately want to change it to the suburbs..ugh..

I can't ride my horse down the side of the road anymore - too many idiots driving too fast, laying on the horn to spook the horse and then laughing about it (what would they do if the 1200 lb. horse hopped into the road in front of their car?)..someone would die..
kids can't ride bikes anymore or skate board here without fear for their safety, city folks turn their "foo foo" dog out at night and it chases the livestock..but "my dog must stay in a pen"? whatever...

got enough outdoor lights here to light a small town, every house lit up like it's Christmas 365 days a year..

and save me from the hordes of trespassers that decide to "come pet the horses because they are cute"..uhm yeah, except that not all horses are cute and some are downright dangerous..but yet the horse owner is the one to be sued due to trespassing.

I'm all for educating city suburbanites on country living, but when they want to make the country an extension of the city..I wonder why they wanted to move in the first place?

As a friend of mine says, there aint' no country no more in Ga..anywhere within 150 miles of Atlanta is just the suburbs now..

I need to move before I really get cranky!

[shagerman]

side passer /that happened a year ago the final affevts were not good. the horses were put down. because of injuries. and i have a neighbor that drives me insane. he runs this road every bit of 50 to 60 miles a hr. i live on a rock road and anything can happen. what a idiot. i agout got run over a year ago myself . one of his helping hands were undoubtedly coming over the hill a 1/4 mile away i was coming out of my pasture with a load of ? i parked my 8n on top of the drive got off and closed the gate. when all of a sudden i hear all kinds of skidding/braking on a huge john deere tractor that is pulling a huge wagon. i just screaned nnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooo. thats all i could do. he stopped about 4 feet from my tractor, plus gave me the finger, i just walked up and asked him just where the h--- he thought he was? and if i hadnt of done what i did he would of mowed my cows down and calfs, i was not so delightful when this happened . i wished i would of had a baseball bat and made a sailor blush..besides i pay taxs on half that road and i let him know my feelings. he does not do it anymore but the neighbors, thats been here 40 years they are idiots, sit at a coffe shop all day talk about other people then come down the road like a speed way. someday i will get him,hopefully flatten those great big tires of his. in some way or the other. talking to him. id rather talk to a wall. it will stand there and listen. and everything he does is perfect... he only wished. thanks for the rave i have been needing this, sue

[mrpink]

roflmao sidepasser. I grew up in gwinnett county ga when it was all country. my neighbor protested getting our dirt road paved be cause it would adversely affect his horse riding on the road. The area is all million dollar golf coarse housing now. I moved 100 miles south. we have country but even Atalanta is trying to move here.

to keep from thread jacking I loved the flyer need to print me off a few just in case

greg

[ErinP]

I live in a region experience severe out-migration... A few more "citiots" would probably be helpful.

[hotzcatz]

Flatlanders. No worries, they speed around here and the gulches will eat them. Went hiking down the old road awhile back and there was a pickup stuck up in a tree from where it had fallen off the road above. Apparently nobody was hurt (it was an uncle of a friend's neighbor) but there's no towing that truck out of where it got itself to. It was a wet road with a wild pig running across it that startled him into some sort of dangerous maneuver. He slid off the edge and had to climb out on his own since nobody saw him go over. Had a cell phone and called someone to pick him up. Three or four days later the police saw the skid marks and looked over the edge.

We had someone else move here, buy a small house in a tiny neighborhood and THEN noticed the chickens all over the place. She complained about roosters crowing and fenced the perimeters of her yard which cut right across the path everyone took to get to the bus stop. Then she wondered why folks was throwing rubbish in her yard. She moved out in about five weeks but that fence is still there but then, so are the roosters.

[EDDIE BUCK]

Yea, I've dealt with one crazy person from the city. He moved out here in the country and opening day of dove season last year he called the gamewarden on me and five other folks. We were all legal. But it just so happened one of the fellows I was hunting with, owned most of the land around that guys property and also happened to be where he(city guy) rode his four wheeler and golf cart. That one call to the gamewarden cost that guy a place to ride and six would be friends. There ought to be some kind of rules about getting along with neighbors for those folks (city or country) who is lacking common sense. Believe me theres plenty of both out there that has never heard of common sense, much less aquired any of it. And if they don't like the rules they can stay where they are at, cause we are getting along just fine without them. Oh don't get me wrong, I like good neighbors but good neighbors have common sense, atleast all I've ever known did.

[sidepasser]

Originally Posted by ErinP

I live in a region experience severe out-migration... A few more "citiots" would probably be helpful.

Beware what you wish for Erin...is your peace and quiet worth having a few hundred folks moving in an area designed for a few? Uhm..my quiet country road that is barely wide enough for two cars is now home to a subdivision of 250 homes - with kids running 4-wheelers up and down the road illegally, people letting their dogs roam at night that chase the other neighbors calves (and kill them), parties that last far into the night, fireworks shot off when in a drought starting a woods fire that burned 20 acres of my neighbors planted trees..I thought my neighbor's barn was going to burn that night.

All I hear is "I didn't know"..ugh.

be very careful what you wish for..I am wishing for pigs..for sale..maybe that will keep my newest citiot from utilizing my well marked "private driveway"..but now will have to start locking my gate when I leave. These folks just bought a lot next to my farm and instead of putting in their own driveway, they are attempting to use mine daily to "check on their lot". I probably would not have minded if they had even asked me (seeing as how they saw me at the barn!) but they didn't ask, they just presumed that it was "ok".

It's not ok, because they leave the upper gate open which is there in case a horse were to get out, it would be contained on the property instead of wandering down the drive to the road.

I need to move soon and am looking for a place further out, way further out, trouble is...too far and I spend too many dollars commuting to work, but I don't know how much longer I can deal with this many people, all who think my farm is some big playground for them, their kids, and their dogs.

My only problem neighbor is a local fella whose family has been here for generations. He thought it quite alright to keep a herd of pigs that he allowed to roam loose across his and a dozen other neighbor's properties. It wasn't until the boar started getting into my hen yard to eat the feed that I discovered they were his pigs. I thought they were simply feral and was about to start killing them all. We had quite the shouting match across the pond about it.

City folks, flatlanders, locals, it doesn't matter where they come from. Some folks just have no clue as to what it means to be a good neighbor.

.....Alan.

[minnikin1]

Originally Posted by hotzcatz

We had someone else move here, buy a small house in a tiny neighborhood and THEN noticed the chickens all over the place. She complained about roosters crowing and fenced the perimeters of her yard which cut right across the path everyone took to get to the bus stop. Then she wondered why folks was throwing rubbish in her yard. She moved out in about five weeks but that fence is still there but then, so are the roosters.

Anyone??? Helloooo?

When someone shells out the bucks for a new home - and then pays the taxes on it-
it becomes their right to fence off your children - no matter how long you've been using it....
OK, complaining about the roosters was a pain, but
her fence did not give you or others the right to litter her yard!
Sounds like you were equally a lousy neighbor in this scenario!

[hintonlady]

Originally Posted by sidepasser

I'm all for educating city suburbanites on country living, but when they want to make the country an extension of the city..I wonder why they wanted to move in the first place?

They moved in order to escape more of their kind. Sort of a bitter irony, no?

[Tricky Grama]

We will probably be citiots if we ever get to move to our land. We've tried hard not to be, tho.
I like the 'handout'. Seems like good sense to me.

Patty

[fin29]

Citiots. How trite. How like "bumpkin," "redneck," "honkey," "cracker." Oh, the outrage if someone posted a publication like the one in the op outlining how city folk could convince country folk to wash their hands before dinner, or greet their new neighbors with, "Wow--how do you keep that corncob pipe from falling out of your mouth with only one tooth? Brilliant!"

I live a country lifestyle, but God this thread's whole line of thinking irks me. Take a redneck and put them in the city, they don't know which knife to use for the fish, the city folks laugh. Take an urbanite and put them in the country, and they don't know which cow makes the milk--the one with one big thing hanging down or the other one with four little ones. But for all the confusion, it's always the country folk who do the most grousing while the city folk get the credit (as in blame) for being elitist pigs.

Alder said, "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." If our intrepid redneck population is sick of being stereotyped, it would be best to teach by doing, not with that brand of banal rubbish. I'm open to just about any form of humor, but that newsletter is so predictable, juvenile, and grammatically retarded that it just serves to perpetuate the very myth it's intended to challenge. And more insultingly, it's couched within a purportedly "helpful" format.

[Lilandra]

the brochure is awesome EXCEPT where it refers to new rural residents as idiots. those folks wanted to escape the city and stay in a familiar setting aka housing development. if there was a bad guy in all this - try the local farmer who sold his land to the developer. The brochure needs to be revised to say new rural resident or former city dweller, and it would be vital to good rural relations. I liked the part where they encouraged rural church participation. Our small church is shrinking even though the area around us is growing with housing developments. BUT again, the rural folks here are seeing the new people as citiots and not new rural residents. I've been here for over 18 years and I am still an outsider just because I didn't grow up in this area, my husband did, and his family is still in this area.

[mamita]

I can only say this. had a neighbor move into the area who suddenly decided to go to the small township meetings to have new rules set into place. one of the rules was that people should not be allowed to paint the exterior of their houses certain colors. all because a man down the road had (a fabulous home) mauve doors. now...really....it does irk people that moved to the country to get away from that silly stuff (or lived here forever) when someone comes along and wants suburbia. why move away from the suburbs then?

I don't think anyone moving here is any more of an idiot than I. that's just harsh. BUT...when people move out of their comfort zone (whether it city or country) and try to change things to suit them........that's a bit more than annoying. no offense to anyone, but it's the same as people wanting chickens where the zoning prohibits it, and they are upset. that baffles me....then move to where life suits your needs.

[NJ Rich]

Well, after seeing some of the people who visit here (our town) and then decide to stay I am always suspect about what they want to change and why. There always seems to be something on "their lists".

I can understand some "No Trespassing Signs". I guess I was raised in a "kinder, gentler time". when you could knock on a door and introduce yourself to a new neighbor and be welcomed. I didn't mean to offend those of you here, but I get feed up with how the area has hanged.

Believe it or not I am kind of the neighborhood nice guy and people wave and say hello as I said earlier. Two new city families moved here within the last two years. They are warming up and realize they aren't in the city anymore. They are "fitting in" now.

I have been told, "in the city you don't make eye contact with people, that can get you in trouble". I don't like the city at all and refuse to go there with my wife. But I try to remember that when I go some where, I am the outsider and residents respond according to my own attitude and the way I act. I visited my sons home in Tennessee and seemed to fit right in with the locals.

My son has been there almost four years and has made some good friends with farmers and land owners. He has written permission to hunt thousands of acres of farmland and wood lots. That says a lot about his own character and how he warms up to people. To me, Tennessee is like turning the clock back 50 years. The area and the people are like those I lived with and grew up with. Wave to a "citiot" and you may find a new friend who understands the way of life in your town and fit in better. It is worth a try. It worked here.
Best to ya, NJ Rich