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rosesandpiglets t1_j9umis6 wrote

You’re going to have to pick or choose from your wishlist. WA’s cost of livings isn’t very far below CA’s now, at least where people want to live.

All rural areas are going to have a higher per capita rates of homophobics and racists unfortunately. All rural places are also more likely to have poverty issues that result in a lot of petty crime and drug use, compared to the suburbs.

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Round-Mobile-333 t1_j9v668d wrote

Have you experienced homophobic hate in a specific rural area of Western WA? Sucks. Rural places seem so nice and polite to me.

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rosesandpiglets t1_j9vpz4q wrote

Got a bottle thrown at me and my BF in Carnation once, and one time called some slurs in Aberdeen. Got yelled at by some neo nazis outside Ferndale once, but that was mostly racial slurs directed at my friends.

To be clear most people in rural parts of all of the country are nice people, it’s just you’ve got a higher per capita chance of running into a nutter in rural areas.

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Round-Mobile-333 t1_j9vrjkb wrote

:( I'm sorry.

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rosesandpiglets t1_j9vtifm wrote

It’s ok,

I’ve had a similar encounter in Seattle once too, hateful people are everywhere unfortunately, not trying to say rural places don’t have predominantly nice folks

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islandlalala t1_j9xfryr wrote

Got a nice neighbor here on Camano who calls me a dyke because I used to drive a Subaru? I’m widowed 3 kids but you know, big dyke.

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Pristine_Read_7476 t1_j9v9wdu wrote

Exactly, I've lived on both sides and if you're going East with the headspace that everyone there is anti-woke then that's a great opportunity to rethink your news sources.

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