fritz45 on Nostr: I don’t think violence solves this issue. Well short of a genocide one way or the ...

I don’t think violence solves this issue. Well short of a genocide one way or the other though I fervently hope no one involved is so inclined. I’m going to weigh in as someone who is watching the small town my family has been living in and around for almost 300 years turn into urban sprawl for a large metropolitan area 15 miles away. For the most part it’s internal migration within the US. We won’t be rude to newcomers. Mostly. If you complain about the weather, the bugs or the way we do things then we’ll ask if you need help moving back up north. None of us like the extra infrastructure that has to be built, a dozen schools in my lifetime. The extra traffic. All the forest being clear cut for housing developments. The fact that now maybe we can’t just go shoot a .22 at cans in the back yard without some Karen calling the cops. Maybe it’s wrong to tar everyone moving here with that brush. It’s easy to do though and really we don’t know any of the newcomers from Adam. They are easy to spot though. Well. Easy to hear anyway.

Like I say I won’t be rude to you unless you start complaining about the place when ain’t nobody from here asked you to move here. That’s most of us but, and I’ll project here with conversations I’ve had with other people whose families have been here for generations. None of us particularly care for it if the people I know are any indication. That’s likely a function of numbers. Hundreds and sometimes thousands a year every year? Why would anyone expect us to like that?