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2021-02-17 -Land of the Free

Urban to rural: The next migration is now!

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-17 02:24|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Chorus Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Where the air is so pure, and the zephyrs so free,
The breezes so balmy and light,
That I would not exchange my home on the range,
For all of the cities so bright.

The Red man was pressed from this part of the west,
He's likely no more to return,
To the banks of the Red River where seldom if ever
Their flickering campfires burn.

How often at night when the heavens are bright,
With the light from the glittering stars,
Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed,
If their glory exceeds that of ours.

Oh, I love these wild flowers in this dear land of ours,
The curlew I love to hear cry,
And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks,
That graze on the mountain slopes high.

Oh give me a land where the bright diamond sand,
Flows leisurely down in the stream;
Where the graceful white swan goes gliding along,
Like a maid in a heavenly dream.

Then I would not exchange my home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Posted by Omerong Snore6777 2021-02-17 11:52|| 2021-02-17 11:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Rural people are friendlier and more self-sufficient by necessity. This could end up being a very positive trend in the long run, although there will certainly be a lot of short term pain as these folks try to recreate rural communities into what they left behind.

Posted by rjschwarz 2021-02-17 13:00|| 2021-02-17 13:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Destroy "smokestack industry" and you destroy the modern reason for big cities.

Posted by magpie 2021-02-17 15:10|| 2021-02-17 15:10|| Front Page Top

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