princess
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Re:pegboard, etc. - 2009/10/15 11:13
all very true things, pontz. but if you take a moment to sit and people watch at the said mcdonalds, you'll find the local residents i speak of.
i'll be the first to tell you that there are unquestionably good people in bradford and the surrounding areas. i have a very large family, some of whom would qualify, others not so much. i've dated a few delightful young women in the area, and i've had the pleasure of making friends with plenty of truly good people over the years.
but sadly, these people area strongly outnumbered here.
in my mind, bradford is in an area where it is a victim. i've seen firsthand the city workers who are truly trying to make the town a nice place to live. i've seen the people in the forest service try to make it a nice area to recreate. i've seen normal people like you and i try to help out in their own small ways. but so the area continues to leach the efforts of these said people to support an excessive population of white trash miscreants and welfare abusers. some of them are on their 4th generation of handouts going all the way back to the bust that inevitably followed the oil boom you mentioned.
said bust also severely impacted the surrounding woods. on our shop rides we would head off the hill and back to town on the only singletrack within 20 miles and the woods themselves have a perpetual reek of oil. it is more common to cross abandoned pipes and sucker rods than it is to cross fallen logs.
if the area were mainly populated by people who genuinely cared, all those positive aspects you mentioned would be at the forefront of the city of bradford and its surroundings. as it is, you only have to find my review of FLOW magazine to see how i've witnessed it for the past 30 years. until bradford sweeps aside the trash riddling the area it will suffer the fate of disgrace.
Post edited by: princess, at: 2009/10/15 11:14
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