Texas

It's weird...I wanted to live her because Whatever's whole family is here. The state isn't horrible either. The issue is...small towns suck. It could just be this one, but I have a feeling it's like this in any tiny place. People are so quick to try to "one up" each other. "I just got a new Coach purse!". "Yeah, I just got two new Coach purses!". Who gives a flying rats ass?! Being all super Christianly is a contest too. The longer I live here the less I care to be associated to religion. I rarely see actual Christian values being exercised at all times. Is anyone perfect? No, but this place is full of sheeple that are good at pretending they are at church for God or themselves...really it's a fashion show and gossip update center. I am looked at with judgey eyes if I go in the gas station. It wasn't always this way. You piss off the right local and that is your punishment. Gossiped to death. It's funny how Whatever asks me how I can generalize a whole town. I can positively say that no person here is an exception. I have heard and seen it from Teachers to Preachers. They are all under the same small town anti-new people rules. I was told by people who have lived here for several years but not since birth or their grandparents, grandparents birth, "You will never be accepted". Yes, they raised children here (and grandchildren now too!) but still feel like outsiders. It's refreshing to hear that I'm not insane. Other people realize the way these people act. I was treated nicely in 2006 when I lived here for a short time. Looking back, I bet it was just smiles in my face... Shame on me for not seeing through the fake. I am elated that Whatever doesn't want to live here. He didn't want to come back... I was the one that thought "family" was a good reason to live somewhere. I could not have been more wrong. Live and learn.