Anyone here ever had to live in a rural area where there are some really fanatical Christian Fundamentalists?

I've been a rural type person most of my life but now that I've joined the ranks of the elderly senior citizens, I may, out of need, have to change that. I live alone and most of those that used to help one another have either passed on or are in need of help themselves. It's hard when mentally you feel you're still able to live the lifestyle you've been living but the body starts letting you know you're wrong.

There are pro's and cons to living in the city or the countryside. We lived for a bit on the Big Island of Hawaii up on a very high mountain a good 20min. Ride down into Hilo, a small city with limited shopping.

I was paying over $200 to $250. A week for food, cost me well over $20. A day for gas to drive to work as I had to drive 90 min.

Each way to the one job I could find. This was in the mid 90's, now there are more services and a few more jobs closer to Hilo. We had to lug butane gas for drying clothes and get a converter for the dryer, had to lug down our household trash once a week to the junk yard, had no trash pick up where we lived.

I had to mail order allot of our clothing, my son is 6'3" tall and was still a growing teenager when we lived there. The few stores in the small town didn't bother to carry jeans for anyone that tall and slim. Costs allot for postage for the delivery of packages.

My dog developed a skin condition, the vets charged whatever they wanted to because there are only a few living around there. Had to wait over one month for a skin specialist to fly over and have a look at him, cost over $400. Just for his lab tests and then a few hundred bucks more for the visit!

Most country people in Hilo who don't have the funds would probably just shoot their dog or let it suffer rather then paying those high prices. , the most expensive place we ever lived, pretty but super pricey and we didn't get anything extra for our money. It was way "too country" and isolated for me.

Living on an Island is not so easy for everyone. I got "rock fever" a times and just wanted to drive into the ocean to go somewhere else. To even get off that rural Island to the city of Honolulu was costly and expensive to rent a hotel room while away.

Pretty much stuck on a rock living there, no wonder so many people drink and smoke pot over there, calms down the nerves. The up side was our closetest neighbors were a 5 min. Walk away, I had acres of cane fields close by where my dog loved to roam and we had the best view in the world from the living room window.

We could see the sun rising and setting from there. Had a view of Hilo Town and the ocean view without having to go anywhere. Now we live in a flat in Budapest.

Everything is close by but I can actually hear my neighbor blow his nose every morning and hear the prono films( or they are just randy next door) from the other neighbor through the walls! Time to go to the suburbs, somewhere in the middle is more to my liking.

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