Bicycle City in South Carolina

[Crankin]

It looks interesting. But... I have a feeling that those political, religious, and social issue opinions are probably the same as your brother in law's.

[tulip]

It looks interesting. But... I have a feeling that those political, religious, and social issue opinions are probably the same as your brother in law's.

Wow. That is one big stereotype. I'm surprised.

[Crankin]

Sorry if it's a stereotype. I have lived in the south and always felt "different." It was somewhat similar in Phoenix, when I first lived there, too. So it's based entirely on my own perceptions and experience. That said, of course, there's always like minded people in most places, but I guess the fact that I've lived 2 places where my view of the world was definitely the minority view, I did make a conscious decision to live in a place where that wasn't true.
I think it's a question of living among people who have been exposed to lots of different cultures and religions; where I find it interesting, others see it as threatening to their way of life. I got tired of explaining why I didn't do certain things or celebrate certain holidays and then getting a blank stare and a cold shoulder.
Hope I didn't offend anyone.

[emily_in_nc]

It didn't offend me at all. I'm already a southerner, though, lived in NC all my life, so I am used to living among lots of people I don't necessarily agree with on political/religious matters since I am your basic tree-hugging liberal. I grew up in an academic & theater family, and since my parents' friends were also in academia or theater, I never felt out of the mainstream until I went to high school and realized that we were "different" from a lot of other folks in the same city.

But even in the south, if you choose your communities carefully, you can find lots of like-minded people. I have a feeling the folks who would move to a car-free city, no matter in which state it happened to be, would be a bit out of the mainstream. Lots of tree-huggers, I suspect.