I'm amazed

I have always been impressed when visiting large cities how gracious the locals are when helping out the tourists, those of us not used to city ways. Now I'm wondering what word is their equivalent of "citiots."

Honestly, I don't want growth either, but I sure would like to halt the decline!

The grade school where my kids started, for example, was a four room school with 36 kids when DS started K in '04 (K, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6) Having gone through several readjustments in the last 7 years, it's currently a two room (K-1-2, and 3-4-5-6) with 11 kids.
(I currently have the joy of being their PE teacher, btw. I'm having a blast. )

Due to continued population decline, they're talking about closing it in the next couple of years. Which means, there are little kids left in the area that will have to ride a school bus 35 miles, one way, to get to school!

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There are a lot of 'city' people in our rural area here in southern KY ... people that buy 2 to 5 acres and build a house so they can live in the country. We also still have a lot of farm families in the area as well.

For the most part it's more or less live and let live ... but the city people have city cars and complain because they can't get up and down the gravel roads in the winter. They complain when the farmer behind them (with 400 acres of corn or beans, depending on the year) sprays for weeds and the spray drifts into the neighboring 4 acres of 'estate lawn/landscaping' and kills some of it.

The most trouble I've had/seen with city people coming in and buying 'mini-ranchettes' to retire on was when I worked in Sheridan, WY ... gorgeous scenery and a lot of people thought it was exactly where they wanted to retire in their little piece of the wild, wild West. Only they didn't like how the neighbors took care of their livestock, or the roads, or their pastures ... didn't have county road maintenance, no snow removal, no garbage pickup and disposal ... everybody had a pickup with a gun rack and a rifle ... and even worse, SHOT DEER and ate them!

Some adjusted ... a lot didn't.

Dats rat. Still amusin.

I moved from the city, so I guess I am a citiot. Still learning the ropes, but I do all I can to not disturb the routine of the farming neighbors. Except when I realized that a whole herd of cattle was crossing my property and generally headed toward the highway. The first time I spoke to my neighbor was when I called him after he was sound asleep trying to explain who I was and why I was calling. "Um, your cattle are out". Then I got to watch an after dark round up. They sure know what they are doing. LOL Harvesters left a gate open. See. even those that work in the country make mistakes.........

i work hard to keep my critters, especially my dogs on my property and don't bother anyone else's critters. If I see any livestock loose, I let the owner know, but stay away from the animals. I know nothing about dealing with a big animal.

And, when populations decline in rural areas, schools close, and towns die. Then it is harder to find supplies that are needed within a reasonable distance.

To say that EVERY person that moves from a city to the country is a citiot is simply another form of discrimination.

If there are no weeds or falen limbs for the leaves to catch they do much better. I didn't say would kill them. My trees are by the square foot. In a 1000 sq foot I have cut 80 to 100 trees anywhere from 2"x20' to 30"x30'. So I have no idea what you tree density is. My dirt never sees the sun. So each place is different. Hey just never mind me. But my neighbor is jealous cause more of my trees are geen while more of his are brown.

Yeah another neighbor is a country boy and can't figure out why he has dirt instead of grass. You should see the difference at the property line. It is and isn't funny.

Actually, they have a variety to choose from.

Redneck, hick, yokel, flyover country, hillbilly, rube, inbred, farmer, etc.

I'm amazed (well, not really) that most of the people I hear complaining about "citiots" around here are the recently arrived hobby farmers who in reality are only about a quarter step removed from being "citiots" themselves

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Well I was hopin fur amore amusin chat. Like maybe sumptin funny one o dem citiots did or even you when ya left de city. I'll say citiots is a new word fur me.

These type threads end up in hurt feelings every time.
Citiot is an insulting term, even if it is true.

My neighbors moved here from a duplex in Tampa.
They have 20 sheep and a llama on 2 acres. I wonder why all the grass 'died'.

They buy their hay and it is not my business, is it?

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Well, I guess I'm a citiot. Last october I moved to this great little town with 26 familys. Everyone has been very kind, and I'm getting a real good education. I pay in baked goods and garden produce. I really appreciate the open minded folks in my tiny town who were good enough to take me in and teach me.

I have a ton of stories from a few folks that moved from a big city. Back in the 90's when Nasa was milking the county dry here at the old power plant we had alot of newbies here. Most were engineers and folks associated with them looked at us like I cant belive they have shoes.

A friend thats older was a a log trucker and they stopped at a country store eating lunch. THis man in a suit and tie and a little girl had an over heated car. He offered his help to them and he said to my friend, " Im a #### engineer I dont need your help.

THe store has a hose hooked to a Frostfree faucet. He unscrews the adjustment knob on the sade as it looks like a regular faucet. That didnt work then he lifted the handle and shoved it down and a tad of water came out. THen he held the hose over the coolant tank and had his little girl pump the handle like a pitcher pump. My friend said he couldnt let the little girl look like this and went over and flipped the handle up for them.

I caught a new neighbor that was buying the place across the road taking pictures of my place and my shop and the junk around it. He and his wife wanted me to clean up my shop area and had alsready called a scrap company. I stopped the trucks right in time. I saw the one neighbor with a saw cuttin a tree near a power line. I stopped by and offered him my advice on cutting it. I told him to look at the trees branches being all on the side of the power line as well as a lean that way to. I offered to use my excavator and a friend cut that one and Me to push it over.


He said he didnt need my help he was college educated. Well the power went out a few minutes later and Joe College had dropped a tree across a primary line and also lost his new saw in the incident.

Rented a trencher to install irrigation to his yard. He did call 811 and they marked the phone lines. I stopped by to tell him they probably picked up the old line. He got mad and told me that I was a retard. About 45 minutes later the phones went out. He cut through the newer lines. Later they let their lease go out and didnt re rent it.

FInally a new normal family moved in.

had a couple that were renting a house in our town and they wanted a little acreage, and they found a place and bought it,

she said to me one day,
renting is like marriage with out kids,
owning a property is like marriage with a lot of kids, ((they had 4 kids)

I thought it was probably a good analogy,

I recently moved to the country. I have owned this land for 11 years and it's been in the family for 25 before that. I hunt and fish. I understand what the poster is getting at but not all city folk are like he describes. I moved to the country to get away from other people setting the rules on what I can do with my property. By the same token, i don't tell my neighbors how to live. The one exception is if a neighbor tried to put in a feed lot or hog feeding operation. The smell would adversly effect my quality of life and the water table would undoubtly be polluted. I am making mistakes in learning how to live here and will make more but I am getting the hang of it. You can't generalise.

I tell you, country folk who have such disgust for city people just shows that the country folk can be as unfair and cruel as anyone. I was raised in the country but have also lived in some of Americas largest cities. I have met some of the most wonderful people in the world in both the city and country and I have met some of the worst idiots in both the city and country. A persons intellect and character have nothing to do with where they are from or where they live.

I find this post to be a very sad indication of the type of false pride, arrogance and bigotry that can be found even in the country. Country folk can be idiots as much as anyone from the city. Take for example the fact that drug addiction per capita is higher in the country than in the city.

My goodness those country folk are such a bunch of drugged up idiots. Our family never had problems with theft and break ins while living in the city. When we moved to the country break ins and burglary have been a problem and is always a concern. I guess the country folk can be not only drugged up idiots but also thieves.

How many country people don't or won't work but sit around and collect welfare, food stamps and unemployment? Heaven forbid they should ever move or drive to the city for a job to feed their family. Instead they will collect the government cheese paid for by people who work hard, most of whom live in the city.

This thread of posts and the arrogance shown by our kind, loving, perfect little country folk really make me sick to my country stomach. All the perfect little country angels who hate city people so much need to do a little soul searching.

No kidding.

Should I pack up and move because I bought land in a rural area, even though Fairbanks, Alaska is the smallest city I've ever lived in? (Besides here)

I have chickens, geese, goats, pigs, a cow, and now horses on my property. A garden, berry bushes, berry brambles, and fruit trees. A well.

Am I country folk yet?

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All y'all gettin' upset about the citidiot examples (and yes, I do talk like this, it's not for the benefit of the thread ) need to understand one thing-

City people moving to the country and citidiots are two different things. City people moving to the country are the type that try to fit in and become knowledgeable about their new surroundings and the best way to survive or even flourish there.

Ciditiots are those folks who move to the country and either complain that about things that were in existence long before their time or are accepted as 'the way things are done around here' or else those who move to the country and then try to make it conform to the way things are done in the city... and even try to change the very things they moved to the country FOR.

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I agree! Its not the people who move to the country to live the life and fit in its the ones who move here and want it to be more like the city. We have neighbors who put their home as close to my property line as possible to see the pretty horses out their back window.Unfortunately it also put them closer to my hen houses than I would care to live. Well guess what the hen houses that have been there for 20 yrs stink! Yes there are flies(they have called the Ag department on us every year they have lived there)These are the folks that we object to.

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