Some might think it's ironic, but in liberal small towns - think ski towns and tourist areas - you can still live a life similar to the 1950s: High social trust, low diversity, low crime, low family breakdown/divorce rates/dysfunction, zero homeless, family-oriented. One downside is these places can be expensive AF or lack employment opportunities if you're not independently wealthy.
Freed from traditional offices, remote workers are relocating all over the country, fueling "Zoom booms" in remote towns. In Crested Butte, Colorado, the new...
Some might think it's ironic, but in liberal small towns - think ski towns and tourist areas - you can still live a life similar to the 1950s: High social trust, low diversity, low crime, low family breakdown/divorce rates/dysfunction, zero homeless, family-oriented. One downside is these places can be expensive AF or lack employment opportunities if you're not independently wealthy.
Another downside is it is just a bunch of bland homogenous bores.
Two places I had in mind were Northern Michigan (Traverse City) and Ketchum Idaho (ski town).
I think the non-urban places you mentioned fit too. With Park Slope and Ballard/Fremont, there are SOME QOL benefits, but you're still dealing with property crime, homeless, in-your-face progressivism. These smaller "lib" towns are more wholesome. It actually makes sense that they vote lib, because they're isolated from (or oblivious to?) the social dysfunction in the rest of the country.
Some might think it's ironic, but in liberal small towns - think ski towns and tourist areas - you can still live a life similar to the 1950s: High social trust, low diversity, low crime, low family breakdown/divorce rates/dysfunction, zero homeless, family-oriented. One downside is these places can be expensive AF or lack employment opportunities if you're not independently wealthy.
Then explain Moundville, Alabama.
Admittedly, I learned of Moundville from a story in a Chicken Soup book..so when I saw people judging these places as wealthy and homogeneous...I looked up Moundville.
Admittedly, I learned of Moundville from a story in a Chicken Soup book..so when I saw people judging these places as wealthy and homogeneous...I looked up Moundville.
$30k median income
Equal amounts white and black
Above average living
Below average crime
About 2500 people
Your explanation?
Honest question: What do you mean by "above average living"?
Admittedly, I learned of Moundville from a story in a Chicken Soup book..so when I saw people judging these places as wealthy and homogeneous...I looked up Moundville.
$30k median income
Equal amounts white and black
Above average living
Below average crime
About 2500 people
Your explanation?
Honest question: What do you mean by "above average living"?
I looked up Moundville Alabama livability and several sites said above average based on crime or safety etc.
Look it up then explain what is so wrong with Moundville Alabama
Admittedly, I learned of Moundville from a story in a Chicken Soup book..so when I saw people judging these places as wealthy and homogeneous...I looked up Moundville.
$30k median income
Equal amounts white and black
Above average living
Below average crime
About 2500 people
Your explanation?
Honest question: What do you mean by "above average living"?
Some might think it's ironic, but in liberal small towns - think ski towns and tourist areas - you can still live a life similar to the 1950s: High social trust, low diversity, low crime, low family breakdown/divorce rates/dysfunction, zero homeless, family-oriented. One downside is these places can be expensive AF or lack employment opportunities if you're not independently wealthy.
Then explain Moundville, Alabama.
Admittedly, I learned of Moundville from a story in a Chicken Soup book..so when I saw people judging these places as wealthy and homogeneous...I looked up Moundville.
Admittedly, I learned of Moundville from a story in a Chicken Soup book..so when I saw people judging these places as wealthy and homogeneous...I looked up Moundville.
$30k median income
Equal amounts white and black
Above average living
Below average crime
About 2500 people
Your explanation?
Don't know, would have to look into it. Do you?
Nope. I'm planting the seed for a different perspective as I usually do in support of DEI for places underrated because of ethnic diversity. You don't have to be Boulder to be ok. You could be Moundville and that's ok
Uh...I think my parents, both of which who were born in 1950's in small towns in Alabama and Georgia would totally disagree with the lying nonsense you just said. The far right klan terrorized them and they were denied their civil rights by racist laws that made them 2nd class citizens.
Uh...I think my parents, both of which who were born in 1950's in small towns in Alabama and Georgia would totally disagree with the lying nonsense you just said. The far right klan terrorized them and they were denied their civil rights by racist laws that made them 2nd class citizens.
and now that area is an unlivable 3rd word craphole.