Should small town rural insular regressive types with traditional folksy values be left alone to their sad insular lives?

@SomeMichGuy i seriously need a beer and interesting conversation. Can you provide either?

@Notanymore Go away, drink and kill more brain cells.

@SomeMichGuy thaks for the encouragement cap

@SomebodyThatYouUsedToKnow I'm sure it might seem that way. Hold on to that happy thought if it helps.

@dancingtongue agreed. If they dont want to be there they can move but people should stop judging others

@helenS Well obviously you're the exception that proves the rule:)

@Muldoon Tax rates are built to shield the wealthy instead of extracting their fair share. Reversing Trump's tax cut would be a great step. Bill Clinton presided over the best economy we've had, he balanced the budget, and he started with a tax increase. Few things have been more corrosive over the last 40 years than the myth that "tax cuts pay for themselves."

@ElwoodBlues Clinton had the ideal timing of the dot.com era. Yes, when times were good Clinton was in the White House.

@Muldoon Clinton proved that tax increases don't destroy an economy. Bush proved that tax cuts don't fix an economy. Yet people still get elected based on corrosive lies about the "magic" of tax cuts, and our infrastructure continues to crumble.

And every president from Reagan on has proven that TAX CUTS [b][i]NEVER[/i][/b] PAY FOR THEMSELVES!!

@Doctrble yeah but that's because in a ciry there is frisson. In rural places there is just docile all the way through.

This is very true in the UK too. Big business decide it is not ‘’viable’ and just let it go without any attempt at working at it. @Doctrble

@Jm31xxx Huh? "frisson"? What does that have to do with this?

@SomeMichGuy I am very cosmopolitan. When I get a coffee the barrista and customers alike are always impressed at my sophisticated requirements when it comes to caffeine.

And living in the city there are so many places to get decent coffee.

@Jm31xxx LMAO Great answer!

@dale74 Calling people is what you do when you have the money to afford specialists, without abundance of free time. Unless it's a hobby, DIY is for the idle and the poor.

@dale74

[quote]Some of the greatest people came from the country.[/quote]

Yes. This can also be said of urban & suburban people.

[quote]First off country person knows how to get it done on their own the city person has to call somebody.[/quote]

These universal affirmatives show your bias.

@QuixoticSoul
[quote]Unless it's a hobby, DIY is for the idle and the poor.[/quote]

This depends upon getting the proper contractors/specialists, which can be difficult.

Some things you want to have done properly, and finding a contractor willing to do it might be cost prohibitive.

A regional roofing company touts roofs in a day, but has applied roofing shingles in angled lines, and installed a leaky roof on a mobile home...lol

They also use low-grade (three-tab) shingles, lesser ice shield, poor decking, and seem to not understand how to install valleys.

I wanted to replace my decking with thicker panels, use architectural shingles installed with a "high wind" nail & adhesive pattern, and get the valley right.

As a result, I reroofed and used better everything & got what I wanted at a much lesser cost, and I know it was done right.