Do city people care about the conditions in the bush?

**donh54** · 2nd January 2019, 07:06 AM

I think it's not so much that a number of city people don't care, as that they have no point of comparison.
As a kid growing up in the 50's and 60's, almost every other kid at school (in the city) had at least one relative who had a farm.
Most of us kids got to visit the farm whenever school holidays matched up with haymaking, shearing, lambing or harvesting. Well, you could probably replace the word "visit" with "work"

I learnt to drive the old grey Fergie (it wasn't so old back then!) whilst Grandad and some Uncles were throwing bales onto the trailer. I was still so small, I had to stand on the clutch pedal with both feet to pull it out of gear, then straddle the gearbox to reach the brake to pull up! I couldn't reach the pedals if I was sitting on the seat!
I remember being drafted into helping Mum and the Aunties kill, pluck and dress half a dozen chooks for a Christmas dinner.
It's probably not real fair to go on about the "townies'" lack of empathy, when the vast majority of them are totally disconnected from where their 3 meals a day come from.
The price of "progress, I suppose.

**trout1105** · 2nd January 2019, 08:40 AM

The nation's best kept secret: regional Australia

**Pickles2** · 2nd January 2019, 10:41 AM

Well, I've just read right through this post, I'm OLD, so I'll just say a few things.
Been a Churchgoer all my life, NEVER had fireworks at Christmas time.
Since the time when I was young, attitudes have changed, so have the way some (an ever increasing number IMHO) think about others,...BUT, NOT IN ALL CASES,...this comment does not apply to everyone, but AFAIAC, there are more uncaring people around these days than there were in the 50/60s, some of these people wouldn't have thought about an Aussie farm during their whole life.
So, I reckon that there are the same type of people who do care now, as they always did, but in terms of our overall population, their percentage and influence is decreasing.
Pickles. (All IMHO of course).

**martnH** · 2nd January 2019, 11:26 AM

I think we digress a bit

The OP's logic is:

Donation to rual area =care

Money spent on fireworks= displaced donation (although not your money) = no donations = don't care

Therefore, the firework city folks enjoyed = selfishness

I don't know but people do enjoy polarising discussion not. Them vs us.

Does bush folks care the city folks? Is it all about money or really "care" as in understanding?

Understanding as in mutual understanding? Personally I can't imagine what is the big difference. Wake up dress brush your teeth then work till 6pm
Meal maybe something else the sleep and do it again. In the weekends have some fun.

If running the farm becomes too hard. Sell it and do what you think is better. We as human will always and always make the decision that is the best in our situation. We complain but still what you have is the best you can have.

What kind of care do people need?

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