Mayberry, America

[RKM]

My father was blessed enough to grow up in a town like Mayberry. Black Mountain, North Carolina. Beautiful place, wonderful people and lotsa woods. After chores, Dad would go hunting, fishing and hiking up Mount Mitchell. Google it. To me it's the best place on earth.

 

[AKguy1985]

I grew up in tiawah. Its kind of like that.

 

[Old Fart]

No.
I don't like living in big cities.

 

[weav199]

I live here now. Wilson is a small town, no traffic light, one horse town. My kids did well in school and sports. I have a lil spread out of town, big pond in my front yard. After being raised an Air Force brat in big cities all over the country, I wouldn't trade this for anything! I'll die here.

 

[Cowman]

I grew up in a "Mayberry". But, the Wal-Marts of the world, the farm crash of the 80's, and dope messed it up. Now we have the current mess. The drought. A vacum of leadership. Don't see it coming back in my lifetime.

 

[BadgeBunny]

Maybe ... Mayberry seems a bit too much "in town" for my tastes ...

 

[JonnyRocco]

Marlow is probably close to Mayberry.

 

[daniel1daniel2]

No.
I don't like living in big cities.

Agreed to big of a city, I really enjoyed working out on a farm that the nearest neighbor was about 2 miles

 

[Cedar Creek]

Hell, no! I went to school in a small town that was a lot like Mayberry back in the 50's & 60's - kinda like an episode from The Twilight Zone. Looks good from the outside, but once you enter the zone it becomes obvious that the joke's on you! Everybody is white, protestant, sober (except for Otis), healthy, middle class, church-going, and conditioned to fit into the homogenous society. Anyone who doesn't fit the mold is tooked upon as a curiosity or demonized. Piss on a bunch of stiff-necked peckerwood town boys - I grew up in the country and still live outside of town far enough to be who I wanna be. A country boy can survive!



Cedar Creek

 

[pittscc]

I wouldn't trade this for anything! I'll die here.

Amen sir! I've lived and worked in such fun locales as Chicago and DC and hated every minute of it. It paid the bills, but that was about it. When we finally got to a point where we could plant permanent roots our criteria list looked a lot like this. It's 45 minutes to Wal-mart and an hour and a half to Church, but I would not trade it for anything.