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Originally Posted by airstreamingypsy
Nailed it!! I get so tired of people blathering about "all the jobs we've created" People did like it the way it was. Villagers do treat locals like they are beneath them. It was beautiful when it was rolling meadows with horses and cattle grazing in the fields. Pave paradise and put up a parking lot.
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Some of it is natural, I suppose. Human nature.
I dealt with it decades ago. Far northern Minnesota, where my family lived, is prime hunting country (grouse, deer, moose). Sparsely populated to say the least: I remember times as a kid when being snowed in for four or even five days was not uncommon, but we made do. Each November however there was an influx of hunters from the southern part of the state: many had purchased land up there and had hunting "cabins" where they and their cronies would use we headquarters for their stay. We called 'em "Joe Cities". Stories abounded about their poor woodsmanship skills, bad marksmanship and the fact that some of them didn't wait for the hunting to stop to for the drinking to start. Some stories were probably true, many probably not or greatly exaggerated, but we took them as gospel. They weren't especially liked by the locals and they knew it. They pretty much kept to themselves. Never did learn what they thought of us, but I imagine it wasn't all that complimentary.
Stereotypes may have their basis in truth but become highly exaggerated with time, and there were plenty of stereotypes back then. Not unlike here.