I've been wanting to rant about this topic for a long time. A month or so ago I came across a facebook page all about hating the city and the town that I live in.
For those of you who live in small, rural towns, you know what it's like. We have a lot of hicks, a lot of drug use, and lot of people who don't have a lot of money and don't show much respect for themselves. And yeah, a lot of people hate this aspect of our town...so why use the internet to publicize it?
This facebook page is a bunch of different memes that make fun of the people in my town and county and I hate it. Yes we have lots of problems, but doesn't every small town? Why stereotype the entire city but one group of people.
And you know what? I love where I live. We have lots of popular festivals, holiday parades, art shows, and even Gusmacker. All these events bring our town together...rich and poor, old and young, druggies and high class. My town is fun and friendly and pretty and I think that it is ridiculous that so many people are behind this facebook page.
Someone even wrote an article about it in the town paper about how upset it made them and what happened? The people on the page loved it. They put pictures of the article online and made fun of our newspaper for publishing it and continue to ridicule the county that I live in.
If you don't like it here then fine, move. Don't spend your time ridiculing where you live on the internet. If it upsets you that much, then try and change it. But don't make public all the negative aspects of a great town when there are so many positive ones.
I love my city, good and bad.
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