Differences between city and country folk.

Comhrá · 06-02-2016 01:08PM #1

What do you find are the main differences between city and rural folks?

I find rural people generally:

More polite.
More accepting of poor service....shops, restaurants etc.
More likely to adhere to tradition.

smash · 06-02-2016 01:09PM

Mass. Rural folk love a good mass

Sheep Lover · 06-02-2016 01:09PM

City folk are more prone to gun violence, drug addiction and having their hands down the front of their grey cotton tracksuits.

LFC CONNAUGHTON · 06-02-2016 01:10PM

Sheep Lover wrote: »

City folk are more prone to gun violence, drug addiction and having their hands down the front of their grey cotton tracksuits.

Rural folk love their sheep, maybe a bit too much.

DopeTech · 06-02-2016 01:11PM

Sheep Lover wrote: »

City folk are more prone to gun violence, drug addiction and having their hands down the front of their grey cotton tracksuits.

Plenty of sheep lovers in the country, not so many in Dublin.

armaghlad · 06-02-2016 01:12PM

Country people love the Gah.

The_Valeyard · 06-02-2016 01:13PM

I find rural people live in more quieter country like areas. While city people tend to live in more urban built up areas.

06-02-2016 01:15PM

In rural life if you pass someone, smile, and wave, people will do the same back.

In city life if you do it, they'll scowl back, look at you as if you've got two heads and, more often than not, ask if you've got a problem.

Azalea · 06-02-2016 01:17PM

I'm rurban.

I like gear that smells of cow shyte.

KilOit · 06-02-2016 01:18PM

Rural folk tend to have a chip on their shoulder and seem to belittle Dublin people any chance they get, it's cool to hate Dublin people.
Work in a major hospital with many country people that slag Dubs a lot yet they work, live, socialize and send their kids to Dublin schools :rolleyes:

Dubs are little more private and less friendly than country people

the evasion_kid · 06-02-2016 01:18PM

"lacking" is the only word that springs to mind...

Mesrine65 · 06-02-2016 01:19PM

Geography

Comhrá · 06-02-2016 01:21PM

the evasion_kid wrote: »

"lacking" is the only word that springs to mind...

That'd be the townies, would it?

molly09 · 06-02-2016 01:22PM

Rural people tend to know their neighbours and have a more supportive community

the evasion_kid · 06-02-2016 01:22PM

tippman1 wrote: »

That'd be the townies, would it?

nope,ive had the unfortunate experience of living in irish neighbourhoods in a few cities....crabs in a pot also comes to mind

tayto lover · 06-02-2016 01:23PM

Everyone in the country should have a Dub as a pet.
They make great pets once they're house trained.

MilesMorales1 · 06-02-2016 01:23PM

City people know how to use toilet paper.

eeguy · 06-02-2016 01:24PM

KilOit wrote: »

Rural folk tend to have a chip on their shoulder and seem to belittle Dublin people any chance they get...

Dubs are...less friendly than country people

That's very true.
Rural people give you a wave when you pass them.
Dublin people ask you if you have any change.

recipio · 06-02-2016 01:28PM

Dubs add 'do ya know wha I mean' on to the end of every sentence. God, its irritating.:rolleyes:

One eyed Jack · 06-02-2016 01:28PM

Having grown up in the country, and now living in a city, there's no difference between people either rural or urban at all I find. This whole idea of country people being more pleasant and all the rest of it is nonsense. People are just as pleasant, or as unpleasant, in the city. Sports - same thing. Anti-social behaviour - very same.

No differences whatsoever.

Mesrine65 · 06-02-2016 01:32PM

Rural : Why do you smell funny?

Dublin : It’s called deodarant!

timthumbni · 06-02-2016 01:34PM

Big ignorant county fella from work introduced me to his wife AND sister at a works outing. I didn't know where to look......... Seemed a nice enough lass too. Felt a bit sorry for her.

eeguy · 06-02-2016 01:34PM

Mesrine65 wrote: »

Rural : Why do you smell funny?

Dublin : It’s called a Spice Buuuuurrrgggeeeerrr!

FYP

Speedwell · 06-02-2016 01:37PM

When I married my husband, I lived in a Houston flat in an apartment complex at the corner of a major surface road and a minor surface road. The first weekend he came to visit me from his small Irish border village, he went to walk to the shop for milk. He came back emptyhanded, asking me how in the hell he was supposed to cross the street. I never really thought about it because I never went anywhere except when I was driving the car, but it was six lanes in one direction and ten in the other, counting turn lanes, without a sidewalk. I had to give him a quick lesson in American traffic signals. But the next time I visited my mother-in-law, I tried to find the closest similar intersection to where they lived, and could only find comparable ones at motorway junctions near Dublin.

fonecrusher1 · 06-02-2016 01:38PM

Them city folk are quite literally mad for the oul heroin. Turns the lot of em into zombies. They have it in their tea, they have it in their sandwiches, cakes, scones, bread, jumpers, toothpaste everywhere.

Speedwell · 06-02-2016 01:40PM

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Them city folk are quite literally mad for the oul heroin. Turns the lot of em into zombies. They have it in their tea, they have it in their sandwiches, cakes, scones, bread, jumpers, toothpaste everywhere.

You have no idea how hard it is to find heroin yarn to knit jumpers with. But wow, you have to go down two needle sizes because it knits so loosely. Or the knitter is so loose. Same difference.

MilesMorales1 · 06-02-2016 01:40PM

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Them city folk are quite literally mad for the oul heroin. Turns the lot of em into zombies. They have it in their tea, they have it in their sandwiches, cakes, scones, bread, jumpers, toothpaste everywhere.

The pavement in Dublin is made of heroin don't you know.

eeguy · 06-02-2016 01:42PM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

The pavement in Dublin is made of heroin don't you know.

Where did you hear such sh*te?

It's actually made of homeless people.

MilesMorales1 · 06-02-2016 01:44PM

eeguy wrote: »

Where did you hear such sh*te?

It's actually made of homeless people.

No no, the homeless people want the heroin pavement, hence why there's so many of them we walk on, so it looks like homeless pavement. They're just in an eternal state of being 'buzzed out' to use the technical phrase.

Son Of A Vidic · 06-02-2016 02:55PM

In country areas the cows are very close, but in city areas they are far away.

Graces7 · 06-02-2016 03:02PM

Hilarious thread but with a bite/hard centre... For me, city means too many people all anonymous. When I first came to Ireland from a small island, I took the train from Heuston station in Dublin, over to Mayo. SO MANY PEOPLE!!! I was overwhellumed!!! And no one speaking to anyone or smiling or even glaring. Anonymous... To Mayo where I had a good neighbour or three... I am happier here in Kerry than anywhere i have lived in Ireland. Cork was too urban...too much traffic etc.. when I came home from Cobh one Sunday evening after a Car Boot Sale, I felt like stopping the car, jumping out and running away. Blocks of flats and lanes of traffic... Here it is days between seeing anyone unless I am out and Killarney is my size and friendly folk. Yet I know if I needed help it would be there. And I know who my neighbours are and that they are cared for. Privacy is respected. I would suffocate even in a town.

Differences between city and country folk.

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