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Originally posted by Corndog
My hometown has a population of around 1000, more than 40 percent below the poverty line and more than that on meth. No love at all, only sad I couldn't get out sooner.

If I'd stayed I would still be commuting over an hour to work for around minimum wage, maybe slightly higher if I stuck to it for several years.

It's a shithole that hasn't recovered from the recession in 2008. Or the recession before that. Or the one before that. It's still trying to recover from the Great Depression. It was a boom town in the 1920's, until the coal mines dried up and/or switched to more automation. Now it's a pit of despair sustained by welfare checks and meth.

Basically where I live

Originally posted by Corndog
My hometown has a population of around 1000, more than 40 percent below the poverty line and more than that on meth. No love at all, only sad I couldn't get out sooner.

If I'd stayed I would still be commuting over an hour to work for around minimum wage, maybe slightly higher if I stuck to it for several years.

It's a shithole that hasn't recovered from the recession in 2008. Or the recession before that. Or the one before that. It's still trying to recover from the Great Depression. It was a boom town in the 1920's, until the coal mines dried up and/or switched to more automation. Now it's a pit of despair sustained by welfare checks and meth.

Lived in towns of 1,000 here in neb they werent like this, however the town of 20k I lived in, is this to a "T" Unfortunately even in Lincoln our Meth is starting to climb as well as murder and apparantly our new thing is the sex trafficking ring being exploited... so yeah thats a thing. Fuck it, I'm moving to Canada

Originally posted by drake262
I feel like we do this every 15 season and I think it's due.

Jackson CA here

We're almost neighbors, I'm in Sacramento

Originally posted by Corndog
My hometown has a population of around 1000, more than 40 percent below the poverty line and more than that on meth. No love at all, only sad I couldn't get out sooner.

If I'd stayed I would still be commuting over an hour to work for around minimum wage, maybe slightly higher if I stuck to it for several years.

It's a shithole that hasn't recovered from the recession in 2008. Or the recession before that. Or the one before that. It's still trying to recover from the Great Depression. It was a boom town in the 1920's, until the coal mines dried up and/or switched to more automation. Now it's a pit of despair sustained by welfare checks and meth.

Yep, sounds about like the mountains of southeast KY where I grew up.

Originally posted by HayRow
We're almost neighbors, I'm in Sacramento

Ever come to the Jackson casino?

Originally posted by Corndog
My hometown has a population of around 1000, more than 40 percent below the poverty line and more than that on meth. No love at all, only sad I couldn't get out sooner.

If I'd stayed I would still be commuting over an hour to work for around minimum wage, maybe slightly higher if I stuck to it for several years.

It's a shithole that hasn't recovered from the recession in 2008. Or the recession before that. Or the one before that. It's still trying to recover from the Great Depression. It was a boom town in the 1920's, until the coal mines dried up and/or switched to more automation. Now it's a pit of despair sustained by welfare checks and meth.

Ive lived in Ohio for about 6years now. Started out in north eastern Ohio in a small town 30 min from Canton called Alliance. Where I'm at now is just outside Dayton which is supposedly the Heroin and pain pill OD capitol. Cincinnati is 45min south, and Columbus is an hour and a half north. I think it was overtaken recently by somewhere else in the country but its pretty bad....Sadly this is a common problem everywhere now.

Most of us live in Methmerica apparently

The only meth I need is mfn glb

Originally posted by drake262
Most of us live in Methmerica apparently

Honestly, it makes sense. It's the area of the country most passionate about football.

My home town, the "main stretch" is about 12 abandoned buildings. They keep collapsing, but the city is too afraid to clean it up because it might cause the adjacent buildings to collapse. The schoolbooks in the school are so old that my 15 year old sister literally has books from when my dad was in school. They run fundraisers to pay for grass seed for the baseball field...and fail to raise the funds.

High school football, though? They just built a million dollar football stadium. Hell, the home section of the stadium holds over three times as many people as live in the town...and it sells out every Friday night. New, fancy football stadium surrounded by collapsing buildings, barren fields, and forest overgrowth. Meth den right outside the fence.

Originally posted by drake262
Most of us live in Methmerica apparently

The county south of us is Meriwether County, but all the residents (and law enforcement) call it Methwether County. It really is an all-over problem.

Originally posted by atlbruce
The county south of us is Meriwether County, but all the residents (and law enforcement) call it Methwether County. It really is an all-over problem.

I used to live in manteca, it was called mantweaka

Originally posted by Corndog
Honestly, it makes sense. It's the area of the country most passionate about football.

My home town, the "main stretch" is about 12 abandoned buildings. They keep collapsing, but the city is too afraid to clean it up because it might cause the adjacent buildings to collapse. The schoolbooks in the school are so old that my 15 year old sister literally has books from when my dad was in school. They run fundraisers to pay for grass seed for the baseball field...and fail to raise the funds.

High school football, though? They just built a million dollar football stadium. Hell, the home section of the stadium holds over three times as many people as live in the town...and it sells out every Friday night. New, fancy football stadium surrounded by collapsing buildings, barren fields, and forest overgrowth. Meth den right outside the fence.

I’m originally from the Massillon/Canton area. Football is like a religion there. I mean Massillon is the top high school football program of all time and it’s not a huge city by any means.

It's crazy how extremely opposite Massachusetts is(not in a good way). There was a bill gaining traction to ban tackle football in the state until after 7th grade. The state determining whether or not your child can participate in a sport is bonkers to me. Luckily, sensible parents rose up and squashed it. That's one positive about my area. Most people are pretty sensible.

As far as the rampant drug use in our country goes, I think it's a product of a toxic environment/lack of culture. I was on that hamster wheel for a while. I've been opiate free for 6+ years now. When there's no purpose or obvious meaning in your life, and the system seems rigged, hollow vices are an effective quick fix. Unfortunately, the long term side effects are horrible.

But I digress... I appreciate the perspective. Glad you shared your experience with your shithole backwoods town.

Originally posted by Corndog
Honestly, it makes sense. It's the area of the country most passionate about football.

My home town, the "main stretch" is about 12 abandoned buildings. They keep collapsing, but the city is too afraid to clean it up because it might cause the adjacent buildings to collapse. The schoolbooks in the school are so old that my 15 year old sister literally has books from when my dad was in school. They run fundraisers to pay for grass seed for the baseball field...and fail to raise the funds.

High school football, though? They just built a million dollar football stadium. Hell, the home section of the stadium holds over three times as many people as live in the town...and it sells out every Friday night. New, fancy football stadium surrounded by collapsing buildings, barren fields, and forest overgrowth. Meth den right outside the fence.

lol, sounds like season 4 Last Chance U Independence football team.

Originally posted by atlbruce
The county south of us is Meriwether County, but all the residents (and law enforcement) call it Methwether County. It really is an all-over problem.

Haha I coached at Manchester for a while and my ex wife is from Meriwether. I can vouch for this.