How do you define the Rust Belt?

[webny99]

Sorry, I was responding to the previous post. I'm used to forums that are more digressive and less apt to stay on topic than aaroads.

No worries, I guess I was expecting to see something about potable water in his post after I read yours.

I take it you were responding to his point about environmental extemism? I can't exactly tell what he thinks is ironic, but I agree with what you said, anyways. 

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Sorry, I was responding to the previous post. I'm used to forums that are more digressive and less apt to stay on topic than aaroads.

No worries, I guess I was expecting to see something about potable water in his post after I read yours.

I take it you were responding to his point about environmental extemism? I can't exactly tell what he thinks is ironic, but I agree with what you said, anyways. 

Basically he thinks it's ironic that people who live in a major city located in some of the most inhospitable land in the US would care about the environment.

[jon daly]

Sorry, I was responding to the previous post. I'm used to forums that are more digressive and less apt to stay on topic than aaroads.

No worries, I guess I was expecting to see something about potable water in his post after I read yours.

I take it you were responding to his point about environmental extemism? I can't exactly tell what he thinks is ironic, but I agree with what you said, anyways. 

Basically he thinks it's ironic that people who live in a major city located in some of the most inhospitable land in the US would care about the environment.

Not knowing Sp's thoughts on the topic, perhaps I thought that he might think that it's ironic that these sons of Arizona show an extreme amount of apathy.

Perhaps I think that both Ostriches and Henny Penny's are birds of a similar feather.

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[jon daly]

I should probably exit this thread. I stopped by this place for the first time in a long time recently to ask a question about construction on my commute but got sucked into a geography thread. I forgot how heated they can get.

That hasn't happened yet, but my presence won't help matters. I sometimes like discussing politics and theology but this doesn't seem to be a good venue for that.

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[SP Cook]

When someone lives in a built environment, a place made habitable via massive public works projects that, if they were proposed today, that same person would oppose, that is ironic.  The western third or at least quarter of the Sun Belt is just such a place.   

One major difference between the Sun Belt and the rest of the country, is that the rest of the country was already habitable. 

[jon daly]

Thanks I get that now.

I was afraid that I may've stepped on some toes, but I hope that folks never take anything I say seriously. I'm unconventional in thought and all over the map.

[webny99]

I hope that folks never take anything I say seriously.

I take everything you say seriously -- except for this. 

[webny99]

When someone lives in a built environment, a place made habitable via massive public works projects that, if they were proposed today, that same person would oppose, that is ironic.

I don't see the irony in one generation having different beliefs than the generation before them. It's a fact of life, and happens to at least some degree with pretty much every issue imaginable.

One major difference between the Sun Belt and the rest of the country, is that the rest of the country was already habitable.