[throwaway894345]

> In small town USA, the local culture usually is inferior.

> And there it is! We only want ourselves to be comfy, but nobody cares what effect it has on anyone else. Just as long as everyone conforms to your way of thinking.

Can you please lower the rhetorical temperature?

> But when you start telling other people that they must live like you want them to because they want to live in the same area you do is just too much to take.

There's plenty of cultural orthodoxy in cities as well, it's probably just more agreeable to you.

[wolverine876]

> There's plenty of cultural orthodoxy in cities as well, it's probably just more agreeable to you.

What are you referring to? In large cities, you can think and do what you want and nobody will much care or notice unless you force them to.

[throwaway894345]

I’ve seen people accosted in public for wearing conservative political t-shirts or hats on multiple occasions in Chicago. It was pretty frothing there from 2016 to 2020, and I’m not even a conservative.

[wolverine876]

Wow, never seen it in a city, and I've been around plenty. You see the absolute craziest things in cities and nobody even notices - it's part of the culture. It's a running joke.

[throwaway894345]

I notice people yelling at strangers (there’s also a whole bunch of videos of people being jumped for wearing clothes that signal conservativism, but I haven’t seen that up close), but a much less extreme example is just gender stuff: my wife and I have a pretty traditional division of labor (by happenstance, not design, although it doesn’t matter for the purposes of this discussion) and we get some funny looks/remarks from a lot of people. It would be simpler if I were passionate about cooking and my wife was the breadwinner and finance manager, but we still have it better than people who are actually conservative.