What is with the freakin' arrogance of country people?

[HEyHEY]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/07/15/bc-vancouver-downtown-power-outage-continues.html

Read the comments on that. There's some back and forth between city and country people. I can see the city people's side. It seems EVERY TIME something happens in the city these country people start in with "Well, I'm a farmer and my life is tougher." It's like "Holy shit just shut the fuck up already. We all work hard. How do you think those massive skyscrapers get built, fucktard?"

[XemaSab]

1. Why do you hate hard work?

x(

[HEyHEY]

3. cause I'm a weak city boy

WAAAAAAAAAA

[SPKrazy]

2. They were built by farmers in their spare time

:P

[sasquatch]

16. HAHAHAHAHA!!

:rofl:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. They've got an inferiority complex.

[redqueen]

6. I dunno about that.

I think it's a superiority complex.

[HEyHEY]

7. I just don't get it - when I lived in those small towns

At the begining of my career, I always got this attitude when someone found out I was from Vancouver. It was very insulting.

[redqueen]

8. Yeah... I'm used to it.

The air is fresher, it's quieter, and you can see the stars... but fucksake people, it's just another place to live.

[rug]

9. Vancouver is a small town.

[HEyHEY]

11. not really

2.4 million ain't that small. Even by US standards. Sure, it ain't Chicago or New York, but it ain't Cleveland or Tacoma.

[loveable liberal]

12. And they are forced to watch the Canucks!!! heheheheeee

;)

[HEyHEY]

13. that's the unfair part

[ghostsofgiants]

5. They all think cityfolk are rich fatcats chauffered around in Rolls Royces.

I have no basis for that, but yeah...

[crimsonblue]

10. people in small towns do not work harder.

most do not work on farms. most have normal jobs. the farmers that do work have immigrant or teenage labor doing the tough stuff. small town folk piss me off. I'm from kansas, so I can say these things. :P

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. It's simple- we're just better than you, city boy.

:shrug:

[HEyHEY]

15. Get a Starbucks!

Actually, don't - they suck

[alphafemale]

17. I don't think there are very many "family farms" left at all.

I think it would be very hard, but also very satisfying, to be self sustaining on your own terms like that; wresting a living from land that you owned.

But, I think nearly all people who work the land are now migrant workers. Being in that position is probably about as far from satisfying as can be imagined.