I feel so old and SO naive

[CoventryCat86]

I think you've hit the nail on the head.

Well maybe but consider this:

"Mr. CoventryCat why do you live in the country?"

Real answer: "Because I like the peace and quiet and I have a sentimental attachment to the property that's been in my family for generations!"

Fake, right-wing, tea party, Montana Freemen inspired political answer: "Because I have to freedom to do what I want, when I want free from most government intervention, bureaucracy, red tape, bloated budgets and mismanagement that are typical of poorly run urban areas where they rob from the rich, give to the poor and to hell with us red-blooded American taxpayers. Cities allow the leaches, drug abusers and alcoholics to game the system and get a free ride on the honest people's backs. Cities are CORRUPT I say, CORRUPT and criminal enterprises with graft, payoffs for political cronies and hacks! And you know, living is cities is super expensive even if you own your own place!"

Since I've never lived in a city, I'm full-o-crap with that whole stinking pile of garbage because it's only based on a wrong perception and of how I want others to view living in cities, not on any real facts or anything like that.

Ya see where I'm going with this?