Thread: Do city people care about the conditions in the bush?

Different people.

That's why the slickers live and work in the city and attend million dollar fireworks for pleasure.

It's why the pastoralists and their families live and work in the bush and go to the local rodeo or campdraft for similar pleasure.

I just love going out into the bush and meeting up with my friends and families out there.

I get no good feelings going into the city at all.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

Different people.

That's why the slickers live and work in the city and attend million dollar fireworks for pleasure.

It's why the pastoralists and their families live and work in the bush and go to the local rodeo or campdraft for similar pleasure.

I just love going out into the bush and meeting up with my friends and families out there.

I get no good feelings going into the city at all.

In the bush you make your own entertainment But in the city someone has to provide the entertainment for the unimaginative buggers

Originally Posted by rick130

I ran a cattle property for a number of years and we always did a run into the tip in town 25km away to dump the households waste, as did most everyone else we knew.
You just did a few things at the same time, including a coffee stop at a cafe

No one dropped rubbish around, that was the travelers going through. Or kids from town dropping their Maccas rubbish.

Dumping in an old dam went out when I was a kid.

Yes, we did a run to the council tip every couple of months, but no reason to dump anything on the way there. Now, because they amalgamated the local shire with the nearest big town, the farm actually gets a weekly rubbish collection.

Alice Springs fireworks...
I think that post is a fine example to answer the original question.
I’ll simplify it: those who don’t and never have lived in the bush romanticise stories to suit whatever viewpoint has inspired them on the day.
No, city people don’t care about nor need the bush/ rural areas except to stroke their “environmentally egos” by admonishing those who keep them alive. Literally.
The multitudes of consumers of anything edible or otherwise know milk, meat vegetables all come from the fridge at Woollies.
Brought by trucks, trains and ships that run on happiness and rainbows.

I have to disagree, country people like fire works as much as anyone else.
I used to organize the fireworks for a country community Christmas tree event.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

Different people.

That's why the slickers live and work in the city and attend million dollar fireworks for pleasure.

It's why the pastoralists and their families live and work in the bush and go to the local rodeo or campdraft for similar pleasure.

I just love going out into the bush and meeting up with my friends and families out there.

I get no good feelings going into the city at all.

The fire works money is not wasted because. It brings in many millions of tourist dollars.
To say that City people don't care about the bush is an absolute bloody insult. I know of two schools that got together and raised $170,000. in a weekend for drought relief.
Why should we all stop making money just because some are doing it tough? And why are bush people so contemptuous of City people?

Originally Posted by bee utey

Per capita or per acre?

gross.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

The fire works money is not wasted because. It brings in many millions of tourist dollars.
To say that City people don't care about the bush is an absolute bloody insult. I know of two schools that got together and raised $170,000. in a weekend for drought relief.
Why should we all stop making money just because some are doing it tough? And why are bush people so contemptuous of City people?

As you point out, not all are the same. (both ways) Not long before Christmas, the students at my old high school (Parramatta) in the city, raised $10,000, which they took to Gilgandra High to help support those students disadvantaged by the drought (e.g. no money for excursions etc).

Bush people tend to be contemptuous of city people mainly because they get saddled with rules and regulations that might make a lot of sense in the city, but make little sense in the country - and cost country people a lot more in time and money, and inconvenience than they do in the city. These feelings are exacerbated by a feeling of powerlessness, engendered by the simple fact that there are far more votes in the city, despite the fact that both city and bush depend on each other.

Both sides often regard the other as uneducated - the bush despise the city for thinking that food originates in supermarkets, and the city despises the bush for being uneducated boors. Both views, while accurate in some cases, are, by and large, totally false.