>Why is there a carcinogen warning on the rental car?
>Am I the only one bothered that an in-laws car was broken into in his own driveway in a residential zone in the middle of the day?
>Does nobody else see there’s a guy shooting a deuce on a bus stop?
>Did I really just spend 15 minutes in line for 6oz of soft serve ice cream?
>The first thing you discuss with your middle school class is pronouns? Not, like, here are the fire escapes? Or maybe, this is what we’re going to study?
>Why do all these 40-somethings dress like teenagers?
>Well, I guess no outdoor wedding photos… too much smoke… everything a few miles away is on fire.
>I guess there are just tents at basically every intersection. Huh.
>You’re paying 3K a month to live in a 60s era cracker box? Bummer. My mortgage is less than a third of that for twice the house and five times the land.
Permanent residents seem to have this defense mechanism where they just act like it isn’t happening. I’m pretty happy with flyover county. Given how easy remote work is now, I really don’t get why so many stay. Other than programming from the paid mouths in (info/e)ntertainment beating the drum of urbanization and ‘oh it’s just the zoning’
None of your points ring true at all for a 42 year old born and raised here.
I hate the housing costs as much as anyone.
I've been offroading and riding dirt bikes for 20+ years. Without a doubt, fire roads in the mountains are falling into disrepair. When they do clear them, they do so so lazily that it for sure will alter their response time if they ever need to use them. And that's just one tiny example.
I think OPs list was pretty accurate, just a little exaggerated but I think you know what he means.