I am not sure if this is more a /trv/ thread, but while browsing instagram for cool art.>INB4 normalfagGame artists post on instagram sometimes, folks don't use the forums like they used to. I happened upon a video promoting the Hudson Valley and I was absolutely disgusted. All of these local hipsters are trying to make it seem as though it's a highly desirable destination ripe with culture and historic land marks when in fact it's a rustbelt shit hole designed for it's inhabitants to self-destruct.>rampant heroin useI am from a supposedly high class upper middleclass white town and at least seven people have died from an overdose>shitty roadswould have to replace my tire a twice a year >overpriced real estate houses are now in the 600k range when they were a fraction of that in the 00's>lack of storesnot so much an issue now, but it was in the 00's >normies galloreMusic, Sports or Drugs, if you fall outside of the topics of interest you are an outcast. >people smoke moved cross country, smoking is heavily frowned upon out here, you were considered an oddball if you didn't partake in tobacco.>everything is more than eight miles apartthat's not an exaggeration '>cops are bored I haven't been pulled over once since moving to OC California, I'd be pulled over for just having a white girl in my passenger seat in OC NY>shitty weather>hard to acquire really out there ingredients Out in California I can get shit from all over the world within a two mile radius .I moved away more than eight years ago, and I haven't looked back It honestly pisses me off seeing r9k/pol peeps claiming that this is the ultimate existence that every anon must strive for.
A bit much no?
No one has any sentiments on this dreadful area? it just keeps coming up on every feed.