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Wow, a lot of assholes in the comments. Not everyone in rural towns is a right wing redneck. I'll take my small town of 12,000 people where my commute is 10 minutes by bike over a big city where my commute could be like 1-2 hours.
The small town a lot of my family lived in has literally nothing to do. Going to Walmart and teen pregnancy were basically the activities of choice. Now meth (and teen pregnancy, tbh) is the activity of choice because people are so fucking bored. You couldn't pay me to live there. Plus, the jobs that are available are almost universally garbage. It's great that you're happy there, but plenty of the people who live in those towns are miserable but don't have the ability to leave for some reason or another.
It's prejudice, plain and simple. They're ruled by their ignorant preconceptions based on the limited exposure they get online. Yes, there are shitty small towns, just like there are awful cities, but many small towns are amazing. These people wouldn't know, because they've never left their own neighborhood.
Not everyone, sure. Please post the name/location of your town so we can all have a look at it with Google Street View!
Why would anyone voluntarily doxx themselves on a platform full of angry extremists?
In a town of 17,000 people I don't think naming it will dox them. There's enough of a population there that they could be any number of hundreds of weirdos 🤣
I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in my town on Lemmy, but my town is much smaller than 17,000 people.