Pro vs Con on Country Living

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Otter

I was also raised a mountain man and so was my wife.

NTTAWWT

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

NTTAWWT

It was brave of him to share that. Bravo.

[threebag]

Green Acres is the place for me....

[Holladay]

If you are younger, the city. If you are older, the peace and quiet (boffing the wife) has some merit. I don't need the traffic or all the entertainment, watching the kittens go fruit loops or the dogs go haywire, gives me the giggles more then a "festival" would.

IT IS CALLED "SLOWING DOWN". If you are ADHD, the country is not for you. Younger folks surely would not want that life style. Not much of a party out here, unless you wanna hunt.

And shooting guns in the backyard, peeing has its' merits as well. I think the peeing is a guy thing thou. My daughter did learn the "forest seat", she was 4 yrs old, squatted, pulled her shorts to the side, and peed next to the tree. That picture will stay with me the rest of my life.

[Red Dawg]

Originally Posted by Holladay

If you are younger, the city. If you are older, the peace and quiet (boffing the wife) has some merit. I don't need the traffic or all the entertainment, watching the kittens go fruit loops or the dogs go haywire, gives me the giggles more then a "festival" would.

IT IS CALLED "SLOWING DOWN". If you are ADHD, the country is not for you. Younger folks surely would not want that life style. Not much of a party out here, unless you wanna hunt.

And shooting guns in the backyard, peeing has its' merits as well. I think the peeing is a guy thing thou. My daughter did learn the "forest seat", she was 4 yrs old, squatted, pulled her shorts to the side, and peed next to the tree. That picture will stay with me the rest of my life.

Back yard peeing has it's merits? LOL that is some backwards country bullshit if I ever heard it.

[Perineum Ripper]

Originally Posted by Tuckdaddy

Back yard peeing has it's merits? LOL that is some backwards country bullshit if I ever heard it.

If you are outside on a nice night enjoying a beer and you have to piss it's easier to stand up and walk over to a bush and piss than it is to walk inside take your shoes off then piss

So yeah it does have its merits..for someone who has a military picture up I would have thought you might have hadto piss outside before instead of walking to a porta john..unless you're Air Force then I understand

[Red Dawg]

Originally Posted by mac459

If you are outside on a nice night enjoying a beer and you have to piss it's easier to stand up and walk over to a bush and piss than it is to walk inside take your shoes off then piss

So yeah it does have its merits..for someone who has a military picture up I would have thought you might have hadto piss outside before instead of walking to a porta john..unless you're Air Force then I understand

I was in the Air Force and on convoy's with the Army for two long tours up and down Iraq. 300 AF personnel did the same on every tour. I did my business outside probably over 1,000 times. Even when we parked it on a base for the night and stayed in our tents I was never so lazy to just step outside and piss. The rest rooms were a little bit of a walk at times but not that far away. The Air Force has ground personnel that do a number of jobs so I don't know what your comment is suppose to mean unless you think everyone in the AF stays in a room with a private bathroom in it.

If there is a toilet, then use it and stop acting like caveman.

[Perineum Ripper]

Originally Posted by Tuckdaddy

I was in the Air Force and on convoy's with the Army for two long tours up and down Iraq. 300 AF personnel did the same on every tour. I did my business outside probably over 1,000 times. Even when we parked it on a base for the night and stayed in our tents I was never so lazy to just step outside and piss. The rest rooms were a little bit of a walk at times but not that far away. The Air Force has ground personnel that do a number of jobs so I don't know what your comment is suppose to mean unless you think everyone in the AF stays in a room with a private bathroom in it.

If there is a toilet, then use it and stop acting like caveman.

I was giving you shit..mostly because Air Force people are real sensitive about it..I worked with PJs all the time..of course on base you piss inside a latrine or wherever the have a porta john..but outside the wire you piss outside.

Pissing outside is acting like a caveman..that is some backwards city thinking bullshit

[WilliamTheIrish]

Can have multiple BIG dogs.
Dogs don't have to have fences. It's dog heaven. (when I whistle, it might take them 10 min to come because they were a mile

Multiple big dogs that run free? Uh-huh, riiiit.

You try that around herd(s) of cattle. Or somebody's chickens. You'll have multiple dogs that are laying on the side of the road.

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Multiple big dogs that run free? Uh-huh, riiiit.

You try that around herd(s) of cattle. Or somebody's chickens. You'll have multiple dogs that are laying on the side of the road.

People thinking it's okay to let their dogs run free is one of the things that sucks about living in a rural area.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Frosty

People thinking it's okay to let their dogs run free is one of the things that sucks about living in a rural area.

That's because the guy that posted that is one of the bigger idiots roaming the earth.

[DaneMcCloud]

In all seriousness, I couldn't live in the country. As much as I loved visiting family in Austin or Tampa and KC, those cities feel too small to me. I need the energy and electricity that only very big cities can provide.

My wife's the same way. She was born in a NoCal suburb that's the same size as OP and she can only handle 3-4 a year up there without going stir crazy.

Fortunately, our nation is big enough that its citizens have the option to live wherever it makes them happiest.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

In all seriousness, I couldn't live in the country. As much as I loved visiting family in Austin or Tampa and KC, those cities feel too small to me. I need the energy and electricity that only very big cities can provide.

My wife's the same way. She was born in a NoCal suburb that's the same size as OP and she can only handle 3-4 a year up there without going stir crazy.

Fortunately, our nation is big enough that its citizens have the option to live wherever it makes them happiest.

It's sort of an interesting perspective on what people think "country" is in this thread. I live in KC and it's not crowded. It's also very country-ish.

You can walk in downtown KC and not hit shoulders with another person unless your going into the Sprint Center for a show.

You go to LA/DC/NYC, THAT is crowded. People shoulder to shoulder almost 24/7/365. I love all those towns for the reasons you stated. So much you can do and experience. But I don't think I could live in them at his point of my life. I'm okay with being situated in a place that is kind of both city and country.

[Frosty]

The only way I could live in a big city would be if they had a top notch public transport system like in NYC. I hate traffic and would hate to live anywhere you had to drive everywhere, like in Seattle.

[Holladay]

That's because the guy that posted that is one of the bigger idiots roaming the earth.

Huh? Speaking of me?

People thinking it's okay to let their dogs run free is one of the things that sucks about living in a rural area.

Name one farmstead that has a fenced in yard? Starting my business, I knocked on almost every farm door. The only dogs fenced in are hunting dogs. In a mile radius, there are 5 houses.

Multiple big dogs that run free? Uh-huh, riiiit.

You try that around herd(s) of cattle. Or somebody's chickens. You'll have multiple dogs that are laying on the side of the road.

See above remark. There are no chickens within 5 miles that I know of. There are a few cattle on the fields over winter. I have never seen them mess with cattle. They are smarter then that.

Lastly, that is the beauty of living in the country. I have the freedom to act as I see fit. A fenced in dog in a rural setting is just dumb. Unless there is some sort of history about the dog.

I would wager, that all the CP'rs who life in the country, do not have their dogs fenced in.