Not the impression I got when I was there a decade ago. Poor, and despondent, all the social and economic problems… but not conservative in that sense or insular just forgotten and suspicious of having their collective heart broken. Everyone who could leave had left already and not many but a few foolhardy souls were coming to a poor old steel town.
Not the impression I got when I was there a decade ago. Poor, and despondent, all the social and economic problems… but not conservative in that sense or insular just forgotten and suspicious of having their collective heart broken. Everyone who could leave had left already and not many but a few foolhardy souls were coming to a poor old steel town.
Nope. You wrote authoritatively but omitted the usual clarification of credibility (e.g. "I've lived there all my life"; "I graduated from Franciscan eight years ago"), so I thought I'd ask.
Also, people sometimes don't want to change for very good reason, and change is often bad. Especially in a downtrodden area like that, I think people are understandably distrustful of anything that upsets the status quo without offering substantial improvement.
Not the impression I got when I was there a decade ago. Poor, and despondent, all the social and economic problems… but not conservative in that sense or insular just forgotten and suspicious of having their collective heart broken. Everyone who could leave had left already and not many but a few foolhardy souls were coming to a poor old steel town.
A decade ago. Things change. They don't want change.
Do you live there?
I have friends who currently live there. Do you live there?
Nope. You wrote authoritatively but omitted the usual clarification of credibility (e.g. "I've lived there all my life"; "I graduated from Franciscan eight years ago"), so I thought I'd ask.
Also, people sometimes don't want to change for very good reason, and change is often bad. Especially in a downtrodden area like that, I think people are understandably distrustful of anything that upsets the status quo without offering substantial improvement.