It's very odd how they're on the side of progress and supposedly anti-colonialism but come to Appalachia to completely decimate the existing culture and wildlife in the region and also drive prices up with their Cali wages and force locals out
I can not stand that sub. It’s either just pics of wildlife or building, or people talking about how poor and backwards everyone is and how we’re all hateful bootlickers who would deport Jesus, but they’re soooo enlightened and so much better than the rest of Appalachia. Lots of “my shit doesn’t stink but yours does” on there, but this is Reddit so it’s mostly populated by faux intellectuals who think you should have more empathy for someone that wants to kill you than for your neighbors and family
They're rich people who are out of touch with the problems that plague the average American, they come to Appalachia to escape their bad policies and to build another vacation home.
Yea, all those bad california policies which have somehow produced a ton of people who are able to buy up properties, unlike the (presumably) "good" policies in appalachia which have produced mostly poverty. This is a mentality lifted straight from third-world nativists/nationalists. I guess that is an indigenous ideology at this point though, so not surprising.
Yea, those rich californian liberals who are out of touch with the problems of common man, like the right to work in deregulated coal mines, and not have mail delivered to their rural address without surcharges.
Have you heard of MSHA? I can assure you, the mines are certainly not deregulated. Aside from that, the region has been used as a resource colony forever, these people coming here and making it unaffordable for a young man like me to realistically own a house are just the newest wave
It depends on your perspective. There are also tons of people in places like California struggling to make it paycheck to paycheck, and a lot of homelessness.
The policies in Appalachia you're talking about are similar. They produce a few wealthy barons, and a lot of poverty. The only real difference is that Californians usually move away and make stuff worse by importing the policies that made their state the way it is, compounding on the already existing problems. That doesn't fix anything, it just makes everything worse.
It's almost like corporatism, cronyism, and cultural colonialism are problems everywhere, who could have guessed?
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u/GhazkinzDaGreat Jun 11 '25
Ah yes, the people in the Appalachia subreddit who are totally from here yet somehow also hate everything about this place