it is also changing the social fabric and the general disposition of the average person. Honking at people that don’t immediately move at a red light turning green was once a rarity. The wife and I often wonder if there is something better out there. In the end though, every day there are less great places left on a finite planet where people are seeking reprieve.
I hear ya. Can't believe the constant greater level of traffic this summer. I'm not used to getting down the hill of the side road to the T and having to actually wait while 5 or 6 cars go by before turning onto the main road. What's with that?!? Dang country's filling up!
But this is home. Well established with the neighbors, and the guys down at the hardware store know me. And I got a call this morning from the feed store guy about that special order I placed last week: he woke up in the middle of the night anxious about something on that order and wanted to call me first thing. So there's that.
But the general, surface-level - I guess I'd call it "public" - culture has changed. I can feel it. It's not as "safe" because there are so many people from the cities and they don't have the country feel about them. Most of them didn't come to adapt to our ways and learn to fit in; they're still "city" in attitude, but are fleeing what "city" created back home. Don't think most of 'em will learn different, they'll just want to make us more like what they fled so they can feel "at home."
I'm not sure if I oughtta still leave the keys in my car or my doors unlocked any longer. And I kinda want to ring the acreage with security cams.
It'll be interesting to see how many stick around now summer's officially over. And how many of those that do will still be here in February, dead of winter.