Art Fawcett said:Can I suggest you get out more without offending you? travel as much as you can out west and you just might alter your opinion
Haha. No offense taken! The truth of the matter is that I'm a city guy through and through and I have no interest in visiting rural farms, communities, or anything south of Washington D.C. or west of Philadelphia. I have no ties to it; no family, no carnal instinct to visit, no thirst or wanderlust, etc.
"Don't knock it 'til you've tried it!" I know, I know. But I'm not knocking it, necessarily, I just know it isn't for me. A lot of these responses increased my knowledge base significantly, though -- I very honestly thought that there were absolutely no cowboys left whatsoever. But in the end, the farther away I get from Philadelphia and the surrounding northeastern megalopolis, the more I feel like an out-of-place foreigner. I just don't belong outside of here. A rest stop off I95 in South Carolina may as well be one of Saturn's moons, you know?
Worthy of mention: My wife and I will be visiting Germany towards the end of the year. It'll be my first trip to Europe. While I do not have an interest in exploring the United States, I do have an interest in exploring other countries. I can't explain why. It may be a geneology thing.