re: NWA. The Next Austin?

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If things are going to get "bad" up here, they'll be much worse elsewhere. I work in Fort Smith pretty regularly, and the level of generational poverty and dysfunction there is something that would take decades to replicate in NWA.

The main problem in NWA is "regular folks" getting priced out of their homes by the insane boom happening. If that starts to hit you, just cash out and reap the rewards of the boom while you move to somewhere more rustic and quaint that suits your temperament.

but yes, people are moving here in droves from Austin and other booming areas. Obviously the Waltons are trying to make that happen and intentionally cultivating this influx of "talent." I find this pretty annoying at times, because it seems like they'd rather import external talent than incubate existing local talent. But still, quality of life kicks arse here... to the point that I feel guilty at times of how good we have it here compared to other parts of the state.

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yeah, I think there's an internal family war between Alice versus Jim and Rob in the realm of politics

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but my work and my wife's work as well as our friend circles put us into some circles where I should probably just keep my mouth shut about specifics.

But it drives me freaking nuts. Bentonville is the worst in their efforts to create some kind of cool "culture" up there by importing it. They have a complete inferiority complex toward Fayetteville and are trying to manufacture "cool" without realizing that authenticity is the key to cool, and you have to grow that from inside. It's the reason that Fayetteville will always feel "deeper' than Bentonville (even if Bentonville has more amenities).

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dying on a roller coaster is most assuredly a quick death

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Yes it would

It would take 100K bad new residents per year for it to go bad, and still more than half of them would be escaping leftist hell holes

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Same attitude that has colleges with safe spaces and CRT and 72 genders in Elementary now.

Every HQ/HO I have been in, in this area now has they/thems running HR. Hell there is a big threat Austin could flip Texas with all the transplants. Because they might be fleeing leftist hell holes, but they aren’t conservative like we are. They are old school Clinton in the 90s liberals.

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I moved to Eastern Arkansas because my father passed away and my mother is an invalid. Someone had to care for her. That is my story.

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love you man, that's awesome

we are not meant for this world


luckily my mom is 30 miles down the road, and I'm ready to move her into here and let her die here instead of dying in some state-run or corporate-run (same thing at this point) elderly killing machine facility

nothing I just said was "an attitude" helping along the leftist numbers


edited out my cursing, sorry

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Every HQ/HO I have been in, in this area now has they/thems running HR.

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no doubt about that

and it's criminal and it needs to be stood up against

IMO there needs to just be a middle ground. Too much of people supporting one party for the party’s sake instead of the best candidate at times. Too much left or too much right and it causes problems either way with their respective agendas.

Hate that everything turns political but guess that’s just how it is these days. No one is willing to work together.

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Nashville proper has its fake arse Little San Francisco demographics here and there. For show. They are powerless at this point. Just your basic screaming attention whore girl with green hair

the surrounding counties are conservative and swallow up that bullshite

so Nashville is awesome

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This is 100% accurate.

It's nowhere close to Austin and is many many years from ever getting that way.

Nashville is an incredible balance of the little good open minded, artsy traditionally "liberal" folks can bring with the basic foundation that makes living in a mostly conservative area safe and prosperous.

The current mayor is def. a woke, virtue signaling panderer but he is very pro business and seems to have figured out/know his limits.

We're digging out of the corrupt fiscal hell hole that Megan Berry drove us into, that's a positive.

Anyone who says Nashville is close to Austin doesn't live here or has no idea what they're talking about.

Just an anecdotal tid bit but sat on a flight with a LA/Cali transplant and was pleasantly surprised how down to earth she was about Cali getting run into the ground and how pleasant it is to live in Nashville where there are actual real gentlemen males and people that haven't lost their collective minds when it comes to social/economic issues.

Hard to find any candidates when they all support each other and China.

that's right