[quote=EconProf]Thanks Flyer, and you are quite right that the move was prompted less by financial motives than other factors.
Commentators on the left and the right agree that the nation is dividing into two geographic directions, or what could be called factions. The big cities, especially coastal ones versus the inland ones, the latter perhaps including the ex-urban parts of all cities.
Given current trends, I want to be part of the inland, more rural part. The culture, politics, and friendliness of the people are entirely different. We will never buy motels to house the homeless and addicted or free repeat-criminals from our jails or teach school children to be race-conscious. We won’t close our schools unnecessarily. Our taxes and fiscal future will stay healthy, crime rates will stay low, and education levels high. Our influx of escaping “refugees” from the woke cities will continue.
As a long-ago liberal–it’s hard to be a college teacher and not be liberal–my entry into the private sector via real estate investing and being a contractor in the inner city gave me a rude awakening.
Of course much of this change is due to simply getting old. As Winston Churchill said, paraphrasing, “To be young and not liberal is to have no heart. To be old and not conservative is to have no head.”[/quote]
Why do people after a certain age roughly past 60+ feel so compelled to be so hateful? I mean, is there some sort of thing that once you get past 60, something happens in the brain chemistry that people just tend to process bitterness/anger more readily than things positive?
I see this in some of my own relatives. It’s like there’s a mental short circuit or something, and higher brain function starts to process negativity/bitter/hate often times choosing to process false negativity rather than truth positives.
I say this because I have a relative that watches fox news and cnn news. And while both news tend to lie and distort on different issues, fox news tends to do so by negative lies….cnn tends to lie on false positive lies… But the lies that I see being processed and believed are the falsehoods on Fox News, the hate rhetoric…I got this relative that actually believes 5G can cause covid because he read it on one of the alt-right “news outlets”… This is a guy who studied applied and engineering physics in college….
