I mean, in all redneck-slasher flicks like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Wrong Turn, The Hills Have Eyes etc., whether it be rural Texas, West Virginia, Louisiana or New Mexico, these places look like they're pre-1945, with 1940s-looking gas stations, no phones, 1920s shacks etc. etc. Does it actually look like this?
shareYeah, now Los Angeles looks 3rd world.
shareYeah @daedalus1337, I guess ANYONE that needs assistance from the Government MUST be on crack. Especially those retired military with PTSD and Disabled vets??
*beep* moron. Typical Neo-Con thinking anyone who NEEDS help must be rigging the system. I assume you must be rich or wishing you were.
"When Im Good, Im very Good. But When Im Bad Im better." -Mae Westshare
Typical liberal.
The man mentions waste so hes against soldiers, wants old ladies to eat dog food, and craves starving children on the streets.
I dare you to compare the 'rural rednecks' to your ghettos in safety, care, and overall conditions.
Show me a ghetto and I'll show you a democrat controlled area.
I know which 'trash' i'd prefer to be in. The one where you can walk around day or night without getting murdered, raped, robbed, etc.
Those ghettos are trashier and deadlier than any redneck area Ive ever seen or come across.
You disgusting liberals sitting all high and mighty judging the dumb proles beneath you.
You make me sick and I long for the day when the other half of America decides to do something about you and your ilk.
Have you seen 'Jeepers Creepers'? That was filmed in Florida. The crazy part is that I'm not too far from the areas in which it was filmed. I don't remember seeing old shacks and old gas stations though.
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No, it only looks like that in movies (to fit the plots) and in some very poor areas (equivalent to the poor areas that also exist in the urban United States). I live in the rural U. S., so don't listen to the other people who have replied with their ridiculous politically biased opinions but actually live in urban and suburban areas.
shareI grew up in Texas and some parts of it do, as of a decade ago, at least, look exactly like that. The was a bar just a couple of houses down from the house I grew up in just like that. And the people were the scariest thing on this Earth. I have met and talked to people just like Judd, and worse. Somebody like Buck (except not hot/weird-looking Robert Englund) tried to get me to have a threesome with him and his girlfriend not long before I left the country. Yee-haw. No. Place is full of pedos, inbreds, crazies, child/wife/girlfriend/animal abusers, and meth addicts. Yuck!
Texas is the perfect setting for horror movies because everybody's crazy and just about everywhere is depressing, dry, dirty and dilapidated.
I think everyplace in the world is going to have it's fair share of third-world looking places. I live about an hour away from Mt. Rushmore, and about an hour away from the opposite direction is a town called Buffalo Gap, SD.
A lot of poor old people live there, most don't want to work, so it's a pretty poor area. The roads aren't even paved, they're still gravel. Half of the town is abandoned.
Not to mention even you travel even further from Buffalo Gap, we have the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (we usually say native american around these parts) But yeah, that place is extremely rundown. You can usually aquatint stuff like that to the lack of jobs in the area, and lack of jobs causes severe lack of morale and energy of the people living in it.