I’ve seen posts over the past few days talking about “go to rural america to get a job and find someone to teach you the ropes!” and “there are plenty of young women to choose from if you drive across the country!”
Here's a thread detailing my experience in North Dakota
I bought into the fantasy of going to a rural state to provide value to a local community which was having labor issues because the only labor supply for farm work was meth heads in the area where my friend lives.
Unlike what the media and people like potential Trump VP Doug Burgum of North Dakota will tell you, people in rural states like North Dakota HATE outsiders.
This is especially true for the majority reading this.
If you’re a strong, capable young male who is looking to move to the middle of bum fuck nowhere to learn the ropes while helping a druken farmer who sprays monsanto on everything with an intellectually disabled son, you’re wasting your time.
If you’re a young guy, stay the hell away from rural america. Even the boomers who are working like a dog to keep everything afloat will view you as not only social competition for attracting females, but also business competition.
For starters, there aren’t enough women to go around so any young, mildly attractive guy will be viewed as competition by the rest of the men. All of your potential business dealings with locals will be looked down upon since you didn’t grow up with the people you’re around.
Even if you have lived in a small rural community for 10+ years like my friend has, you will still be viewed as an outsider because your high school social standing DETERMINES EVERYTHING.
Yes, much of rural America operates on a teenager level social mentality when it comes to relationships and if you don’t grasp this then you haven’t spent any time in rural America.
Unlike large cities with a constant influx of new people, ideas and resources, In rural communities there is a finite amount of resources that everyone competes for. When you are competing against people who have grown up together in a little clique since high school, you lose.
The only way to make money in a rural community is to have a large $$$ reserve to start with and a bunch of friends so you don’t have to worry about labor issues like people stealing equipment and meth heads arriving at your driveway at 3 AM.
Small farmers are the greediest people you’ll ever work for and they will treat you no differently than their other laborers which are all methheads. The guy I was working for had over $6m in equipment and another $8m in farmland so his operation was not small by any means.
Forgot to mention he would come over to me to brag about his $45k checks for selling "shit quality cattle" (his words not mine). Yeah the dude was loaded but when it came to paying his employees he was a poor farmer who couldn't make ends meet.
Cry me a river boo hoo
After successfully completing my first task with a $60k+ tractor in the middle of a field miles away from any oversight, I was bitched at for taking too long to get the field done (it was my first day).
Plus this was the first time I had driven a tractor of this size before
After making the point that others had damaged his equipment and that I respected him as a person and his equipment enough to drive a bit slower, I was met with the hostile statement of “you took too long and cost me too much money in lost time".
He then told me to stay out until 1 AM in a thunderstorm to get another field done. Reasoning? There aren’t enough capable people to get everything done during the daylight hours like geez I wonder why?
Maybe it's because no one wants to work for you?
The lesson in all of this is that rural America is dying and the boomers do not want to teach the next generation the ropes. Any capable young male who is interested in moving to rural America to ease the work load off the boomers is wasting his time.
Rural America is dying because the boomers have an immature mindset of viewing young men as competition for limited resources that they all own.
They have more respect for low IQ foreigners/crack heads because they don't view them as a potential competitor
Young finance bros like myself will point out business flaws to help the local farmer while maximizing the potential of their operations (because we actually give a shit)
They view any outside perspective as something that could potentially compete with their operations
The insecurity of these people are so high that they would rather see their operations stagnate and die instead of hearing out people that want what's best for their business. They want to pretend to be smarter than everyone else.
This is why large corporations like Tyson are taking over while small farmers are failing.
Why would a competent young white male help a boomer who will only see this person as competition if he succeeds?
Anyways sorry for so many posts. I don't have a blue checkmark because I rarely tweet. Just thought I'd give y'all my take on this situation since I have first hand experience with it
This experience does not represent all of rural America.
Some of my friends come from farms in Idaho and their experience is completely different.
Don't take my one experience and say it represents all of rural America.
Rural America is still better than globohomo bullshit.
Lots of cmnts about the post related to offering business advice as an outsider
100% someone should never come in to try to take over.
The only biz advice I offered was registering his unregistered/uninsured truck he drives to town so he doesn't get sued for everything he owns
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