Time to fight back: RANT

[Rahul]

You consider Norfolk, VA a "smaller town"? Norfolk is part of a conglomerate of cities like Virginia Beach, Hampton, Chesapeake, Newport News, Portsmouth, etc called collectively "Hampton Roads". It is the most heavily populated area of the state at around 1.7 million people.

And Norfolk is the second most ghetto area of it after Portsmouth. I lived there several years when I was in the Navy.

I'm starting to think you've never been in a smaller town except for a drive through.

My home town had approximately 750 people in it when I was growing up. Now that's a small town.

Where I live now is almost to 100,000 people. That's plenty big enough for me, thank you. My in-laws are always shocked at how friendly people are down here when they come to visit from upstate NY. Norfolk never seemed very friendly to me at all.

This shows you haven't traveled but you're right I did like the place, I use to go there quite often to visit my grandmother. But the place I was thinking was my fathers brother, which was north carolina. So I do apologize, I guess it came up because it was still one of my top favorite states.

I haven't traveled? I've been to England, Scotland, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Malta, Israel, Palestine, Bahrain, Iceland, and Cyprus overseas. Around here I've been all over Texas, Chicago, DC, Miami, Philly, Boston, Phoenix, LA, Shreveport, New Orleans, Hawaii, New York, and driven between most of those places. A lot more notable cities but I don't want to keep dragging on.

I don't consider a metropoliton area with over a million people in it a "small town" because over 95% of towns in the US do not have anywhere near that number by far.