I moved out of a major Midwestern city four years ago. I live in the country now and work in the same city. By city standards, this was a nice one and I had lived in a majority white area. Barely majority white. Never had a break-in in 13 years. City living sucks. I had police cars, ambulances, and firetrucks go by my house daily, sirens blazing. I had neighbors (the very few blacks) argue out on the sidewalk in the middle of the night. I had jackasses revving their engines down the road (residential area) just to show off. If I wanted to walk, it was best to drive to a park first. I once had the cops called on me because my dog was outside when it was cold. He had a doghouse but preferred to stand outside of it. Commercialism was everywhere. It felt like everything was always for sale, because it was. You start to sense the wokeness. The area is majority white but most of the service jobs are black or Hispanic. The music blaring from the car stereo is some kind of hip hop rap garbage. You see a dude in a dress (pink gown, mustache, Adam's apple) at Walmart. You go to the mall and a couple fags are holding hands. Another time I saw a bulldyke (studed collar) holding another girl's hand. You have to explain this to your grade school kids. You visit friends in another part of town. Not a bad part but it's on the other side of a less nice part. You pass by asian massage parlors, a smut shop, and other stuff. In another direction you drive past strip clubs. Vice is everywhere. Porn and sex are everywhere and available for a price. And you know something? I never knew my neighbors. After moving to the country I actually know who my neighbors are now. Country living is great. I hear gun fire almost every weekend, or at least I did before the ammo shortage. I hear my neighbors on ATVs from time to time. One of them cuts my hay. I only see all that sin and vice when I have to go to the city for something. I rarely hear a siren. The air I breathe is fresh and clean. No one complains about my dog. If I want to go for a walk I step off my porch. My kids catch frogs and crawdads. I teach my son to shoot in my yard. We ride ATVs and do yard work. We're putting in a garden and raising chickens this year. Life is actually pretty good. I don't want to imagine how city folk handled the COVID stupidity this last year.