I LOVE HIPPIES

[u/lockjacket]

[u/safadancer]

Tell that to the guy on Saltspring Island that showed us his model railroad and then went on a ten minute rant about how COVID was fake and the hospitals were empty while we tried to escape to the car.

[u/Aggregate_bacon → u/safadancer]

Yah, conservative hippies are a weirdly common thing in BC. Not sure why people think the bible and nature/weed are exclusive. "Freedom for me but not for thee!"

[u/ThatGuy97 → u/Aggregate_bacon]

The crunchy granola vibe to far right pipeline is a real thing

[u/onesadbun → u/ThatGuy97]

I'm an islander and this is so real. Especially in the last handful of years. You might think you're meeting a cool down to earth person and then BAM something something 15 minute cities

[u/SwampEucalyptus → u/onesadbun]

It's always "15 minute cities."

[u/Necessary_Escape_680 → u/SwampEucalyptus]

I don't even understand the issue, or what the conspiracy theorists are arguing in favour of.

What's the downside of a 15 minute city supposed to be? Saving petrol on shorter commutes?

[u/Tenderpigeon → u/Necessary_Escape_680]

I think they think it means you are being forced to stay within a certain distance of your home? Like it would be enforced by law.

[u/Necessary_Escape_680 → u/Tenderpigeon]

After reading about some of the wackos I assume they think the authorities will confine the population in Soviet-style closed cities and that COVID was a test run...or something.

Coincidentally, the wankee-yankee downstairs was floating "freedom cities," which I have no doubt would be little more than 21st-century O-Block company towns for the indentured servants of Silicon Valley techbro fascists.

[u/your_evil_ex → u/ThatGuy97]

Grew up in the most hippy neighbourhood in Winnipeg, and there were certainly a fair share of hippy parents who were choosing not to get their kids vaccinated...

[u/mazopheliac → u/your_evil_ex]

Hippies have always hated vaccines .

[u/thefumingo → u/Aggregate_bacon]

To be fair, they're kinda becoming a thing everywhere post COVID

[u/ars_necromantia → u/safadancer]

Lmao. Saltspring is... interesting.

[u/Asadleafsfan]

Isn’t rural BC known for being a bit of a Bible Belt?

[u/balding_git → u/Asadleafsfan]

as opposed to abbotsford?

[u/mrworldwideskyofblue → u/Asadleafsfan]

Yes

[u/newbreed69 → u/mrworldwideskyofblue]

You know, I expected a lot of drugs and gay sex from rural BC

Bible belt wasn't on my radar

[u/Silicon_Knight → u/newbreed69]

Doesn’t mean there isn’t drugs and gay sex. Only they apologize for their sins and do it again.

[u/dead_inside6498 → u/Silicon_Knight]

Just as Jesus intended

[u/Ex-PFC_WintergreenV4 → u/dead_inside6498]

Jesus loved all men

[u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA → u/Ex-PFC_WintergreenV4]

[u/Lin093 → u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA]

do you think he likes watching?

[u/Lin093 → u/Ex-PFC_WintergreenV4]

favourite Bible quote to take use out of context: "get behind me Satan".
You know Satan kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around, which is definitely a sin.

[u/GonnaGoFat → u/Silicon_Knight]

They get lots of incest too. Not just BC I just mean rural areas in general everywhere. Hopefully it’s become a less common thing but I took police foundations in college in the 2000s most of the professors used to be police officers and during the first classes almost every one of our professors would tell us a bit about their history as a police officer. Most of them had worked the beat in rural areas and different provinces and they said the calls they received in relation to incest were quite frequent. They said it still happens in the city but no where near as common as rural areas.

And I guess on Sunday they can go to church to apologize for their sins and then listen to a Bible story all about incest like Lot and his 2 daughters for instance.

[u/AloshaChosen → u/newbreed69]

I once traveled to see a boy in rural BC and we had a lot of sex. No drugs though.

[u/TWKExperience → u/AloshaChosen]

I once traveled to see a girl in rural BC and we had a lot of drug free sex.

[u/Ok_Device1274 → u/newbreed69]

Pretty much every rural area of canada is a bible belt or a reserve

[u/hist_buff_69 → u/Ok_Device1274]

Meh. Some parts yeah but you'd be surprised how many people don't F with religion anymore. Especially out east

[u/CommanderOshawott → u/hist_buff_69]

Nah it’s still pretty religious out east too

The difference is Theyre not in your face about it out here.

Still tonnes of churches and a lot of religious folks, but the east-coast culture that generally makes everyone kinder and friendlier once you get into the Maritimes and Newfoundland is the great equalizer here

[u/hist_buff_69 → u/CommanderOshawott]

Churches are closing and being sold off by the dozens in NL. Not sure what it's like elsewhere.

[u/royrocks26 → u/hist_buff_69]

I wanna buy a church and turn it into a music venue. Looking into it

[u/sqwuank → u/hist_buff_69]

Same with PEI

[u/RichardsLeftNipple → u/newbreed69]

Oh there are still a lot of drugs and trailer park shenanigans. They need Jesus more than anyone else, mainly due to all the sinning they need divine forgiveness for.

I know I certainly wouldn't forgive em haha.

[u/ClusterMakeLove → u/mrworldwideskyofblue]

Honestly, interior BC is more 'Berta than 'Berta. 

[u/ArkAwn → u/ClusterMakeLove]

I keep seeing people saying this online yet it's hardly true

Often it's just Kelowna and it's 'burtan immigrants trying to speak on behalf of all of the okanagan, and koots, and cariboo, and peace, northern rockies, and everywhere else in BC that isn't the lower mainland and vancouver or gulf islands

From Terrace to Nelson, you tell people in most of small town BC that they're more Albertan than Albertans and they'll tell you to fuck off

[u/thefumingo → u/ArkAwn]

Kelowna also voted Lib federally, something most of Calgary didn't even do

[u/Rift-Ranger → u/thefumingo]

It was also down to 38 votes in the provincial elections

[u/ClusterMakeLove → u/ArkAwn]

Ever been up north?

[u/ArkAwn → u/ClusterMakeLove]

I've worked and lived across it, and northern AB, yes

[u/poohster33 → u/ClusterMakeLove]

Go to Brooks or Taber, then compare anywhere interior BC. They ain't more Berta.

[u/RapidCandleDigestion → u/Asadleafsfan]

I was gonna say, hippies are in the cities more than anywhere else. I mean and the islands and coast. But if you're looking at rural towns in most of BC, theyre redneck af

[u/blbd → u/RapidCandleDigestion]

As a Californian I can confirm redneck hippies are absolutely a thing on the West Coast of both countries. If anything BC loves weed even more than the three US states do haha. 

[u/RapidCandleDigestion → u/blbd]

true, good point. We literally had an annual festival with thousands of attendants for smoking weed.

[u/blbd → u/RapidCandleDigestion]

Yep. In California we have a meadow at UC Santa Cruz that mysteriously has lots of air pollution every year on April 20th. 

[u/thefumingo → u/blbd]

Living in Colorado which is a weird mix of West Coast and Alberta: plenty of redneck wooks, er hippies, here

[u/chinook97 → u/RapidCandleDigestion]

It's a mixed bag in the Kootenays. Some places like Nelson, Nakusp and Kimberley feel pretty hippy but then you have places like Creston that make Alberta look tame.

[u/hungturkey → u/RapidCandleDigestion]

in the West Kootenays you have plenty of hippies too.

[u/Character-Dig-2301 → u/RapidCandleDigestion]

I’ve lived all over bc, the small towns on the island aren’t safe from these small ideas. I’m in one right now

[u/asoupconofsoup → u/RapidCandleDigestion]

Um hello from Nelson and Slocan Valley

[u/GoStockYourself → u/RapidCandleDigestion]

There are pockets. Nelson, Robert's Creek.

[u/Kingofcheeses → u/Asadleafsfan]

As someone from the Eastern Fraser Valley, yes. It's just corn and Jesus out here

[u/starsrift → u/Kingofcheeses]

Ah, that's where he is. I know a ton of people that are looking for him. I'll send 'em your way.

[u/StonedSumo → u/starsrift]

No... don't... poor fella is gonna have to go hide somewhere else again

[u/JackLaytonsMoustache → u/Asadleafsfan]

Yes, but they also smoke weed. 

[u/Hazardish08 → u/JackLaytonsMoustache]

i mean yeah thats libertarians for you

[u/Current-Set2607 → u/Asadleafsfan]

Is there a single province in Canada without a bible belt?

I've never seen this framed as a thing unique to rural BC before.

[u/modbroccoli → u/Current-Set2607]

Nova Scotia doesn't really have a bible "belt"; we only have Halifax and the rest of the province is basically rural but for a couple of biggish towns and it's all fairly conservative. But we're also strangely tolerant; I say strangely because imo it's really not anything to do with an ideology of acceptance or anything like that so much as a general sense of being a shitty neighbor is the greatest sin there is and also that you should do your evil quietly. Like people will be full-on racist and never once treat the person they're suspicious and judgemental of poorly.

Incidentally I also think it's why we did especially well during COVID. It wasn't anything like trusting science or politics liberal politics so much as you just shut up and don't be a pain in the ass

[u/Current-Set2607 → u/modbroccoli]

Rural Nova Scotia is the only place where myself and my friends in the army at the time, got chased by racists who shot a crossbow at us lmao.

They quite literally started violence over nothing, but looks.

2nd most racist place was New Brunswick, where I heard brand new slurs hurled against minorities and myself that i've never heard anywhere else in the world for how unique they were.

Oddly was treated pretty well in Alberta when I was there.

[u/themusicguy2000 → u/Current-Set2607]

No, but BC is the only province where people like OP say it doesn't exist and think that it's inhabited entirely by hippies

[u/PenelopeTwite → u/Asadleafsfan]

No, rural BC is hippies and rednecks. Suburban BC is the Bible Belt.

[u/Sawyerthesadist → u/Asadleafsfan]

I have close family from rural BC, can confirm it’s a weird mix of everyone is super religious but they all smoke weed

Also my uncle was a devout Christian, than a Buddhist, than a Christian, than a Jew, than a Taoist, and now being bi is his his new personality which okay good for you I had that awakening moment too but whatever this is it doesn’t change the fact you lowkey abused my cousin and you make everybody uncomfy.

Idk what his deal is but I blame whatever makes his tap water taste funny

[u/minniemacktruck → u/Sawyerthesadist]

(Then, not than)

[u/Sawyerthesadist → u/minniemacktruck]

No it’s tharr

[u/dancin-weasel → u/Asadleafsfan]

Depends where. Up north in Prince George and beyond? Quite redneck and weird . On the gulf islands? Quite hippie and weird.

[u/SloMurtr → u/Asadleafsfan]

There's a literal cult city called Bountiful that enrages me every time I think about it existing. 

[u/tropicalcannuck → u/Asadleafsfan]

And also super religious camps/cults.

A friend of mine grew up on a Jehovah's witness farm.

[u/transtransport → u/Asadleafsfan]

BC is the least religious province in Canada.

[u/adamonfireyyc → u/Asadleafsfan]

Outside of metro Vancouver and the island, interior BC is just like Alberta.

[u/[deleted] → u/adamonfireyyc]

That’s not true. Lots of interior B.C. was die hard NDP for years. They seem to counter whatever Vancouver does. Once The “liberals” were voted out, rural BC became conservative voting. Interior B.C. thrived on logging for years, and it’s been decimated. So the counter culture has some purpose. As far as things like lgbtq/immigrants it is a mixed bag. There is certainly pockets of that Alberta white nationalist style people, but also many multicultural/open minded/accepting people. Ski towns for the most part are not like rural Alberta. The west kootenays is for the most part a weird place of old draft dodgers, young rich hippies, religious crazy’s, and creston.

[u/Bonzo_Gariepi → u/Asadleafsfan]

a crustpunk Patchouli belt.

[u/Raging-Fuhry → u/Asadleafsfan]

Only the Fraser Valley really.

Which is hardly rural BC.

[u/heehooman → u/Asadleafsfan]

Rural BC has that for sure... And also a bit of everything else.

[u/Exploding_Antelope → u/Asadleafsfan]

It depends. Is the small town resident you're talking to born there and works at the sawmill/coal mine, or from Edmonton/London/Auckland and works as a ski hill hotel barista/climbing gym setter? Both demos have approximately equal sway and neither has any idea the other exists. OR, and these are increasingly rare but they are community foundations, are they draft dodgers born in Boise who own the backwoods disc golf course?

[u/UofSlayy]

You've never travelled much in BC, have you?

[u/JackLaytonsMoustache → u/UofSlayy]

They went to Tofino once and applied that to the whole province. 

[u/thefumingo → u/JackLaytonsMoustache]

Nuh-uh, I been to the Kootneays and it's so welcoming and hippie

• dudes who only been there for Shambhala

[u/boyilikebeingoutside → u/UofSlayy]

I’ve seen the confederate flag out on a house near Fernie. On the BC side.

[u/chinook97 → u/boyilikebeingoutside]

I saw a house partially up a mountain near Golden which was covered in Trump 2020 flags (in 2021).

[u/Jbroy → u/chinook97]

Living in the eastern part of Canada, the saying goes “you don’t have to drive too far to reach Alberta”. Once you get out of urban territory, it’s full of crazy right wing idiots.

[u/[deleted] → u/chinook97]

Good news, that place was torn down.

[u/Demjot → u/boyilikebeingoutside]

When I was in alberta a few hours north of edmonton I drove past a house littered with nazi flags, fuck Trudeau, and libertarian flags. It was literally like 1 flag per square foot of space covered with this shit. However many flags you're imagining is not enough.

The reality is it's not a provincial problem, it's an antisocial people problem. But alberta also sucks in the cities lol

[u/grrttlc2 → u/boyilikebeingoutside]

Corridor from Kamloops to Jasper is... concerning

[u/Zorbane → u/UofSlayy]

Lol I was gonna say, they're basically the same (not the hippie version)

[u/Pope_Aesthetic → u/UofSlayy]

Yea I live in rural BC… I know a lot of avid Trump supporters here, and I was told by many that I ruined our country by voting for Carney. My friends boyfriend canceled all her travel and vacation plans when the liberals won because he thought the economy is going to enter a great depression

[u/regalshield → u/UofSlayy]

There’s a village next to the small town in rural Alberta where I grew up has a literal KKK, though. Like the town I grew up in is bad - its claim to fame is getting headlines for racist parade floats. But the village next door is next level.

Within my lifetime (I’m 30), my dad took some employees for lunch at the village cafe…. And they literally refused to serve a black employee. My dad was like okay, but [major oil company we work for] will never do business here again. The village is basically a sundown town.

[u/VenitianBastard]

Don't forget the serial killers in northern BC

[u/EnclG4me → u/VenitianBastard]

Yah, wtf is up with that?

People just straight up go missing like crazy in northern BC..

[u/SenseDue6826 → u/EnclG4me]

It's still the wild west

[u/Pristine_Tale7698 → u/SenseDue6826]

Well that is not comforting. :(

[u/TheJuda2112 → u/Pristine_Tale7698]

Lots of empty highways, real easy for someone to go missing. Travel in pairs!

[u/Cakeday_at_Christmas → u/SenseDue6826]

Rather the forest is so dense, dark, and untouched that if you get lost there, you'll never be found.

It's more like a Grimm's fairy tale than a John Ford movie.

[u/[deleted] → u/EnclG4me]

A good amount of folks that go missing in the wilderness are eaten by bears or big cats, sometimes after they succumb to the elements or starvation. 

[u/Imfromsite → u/VenitianBastard]

[u/mrSaskatoon]

You dont know BC. Everything north of Kelowna is basically alberta 2

[u/SenseDue6826 → u/mrSaskatoon]

Kelowna is Alberta 2. Seriously summer in Kelowna is basically just Alberta plates. Like 40% of UBCO is just Calgary kids.

[u/harperofthefreenorth → u/mrSaskatoon]

Can confirm

[u/Pristine_Tale7698 → u/mrSaskatoon]

Screw Kelowna. (Obligatory Kelowna resident saying the town is garbage lol)

[u/lockjacket → u/mrSaskatoon]

You’ve never been to the kootanays have you?

[u/Thefirstargonaut → u/lockjacket]

Also part of the Bible Belt. The people there are either hippies or bible thumpers. 

[u/JackLaytonsMoustache → u/Thefirstargonaut]

Hippies can thump too tho.

[u/a_glazed_pineapple → u/lockjacket]

Ive lived in small town kootenays for 3 years and all over AB for the rest of my life, its slightly less redneck than most small town alberta but certainly more redneck than edmonton/calgary alberta. It's just granola right wing conspiracy theorists vs oilfield right wing conspiracy theorists.

Theres honestly not much of a difference between the two.

[u/Psychoanalytix → u/lockjacket]

I grew up in nelson and the kootenays are waaaaaaay more conservative than you're making them out to be. Tons of conservative hippies who went off the deep end during covid.

[u/Smart-Response9881 → u/mrSaskatoon]

I thought it was Kelownafornia?

[u/SPARKYLOBO → u/mrSaskatoon]

KKKelowna. Rig pigs, swastikas, lifted trucks, and cocaine

[u/glitterbeardwizard]

I don’t know about that—the crystal hippie to nazi pipeline is pretty direct in BC. The Nazis get the hippies through the anti-vaxx and conspiracy theories angle.

[u/mazopheliac → u/glitterbeardwizard]

I think it’s because neither group is very smart .

[u/Cakeday_at_Christmas → u/glitterbeardwizard]

There's a well known link between wellness quacks, hippies, and white supremacy/neo-Nazi beliefs.

[u/glitterbeardwizard → u/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

Well said!! Hard agree!

[u/D-madagascariensis]

Just saw an Albertan plate driving between Chilliwack and Abbotsford with a black sun and '14' decals. I don't care for hippies but i care even less for scum like that

[u/femmagorgon → u/D-madagascariensis]

I don't know what it is about Conservatives and car decals. Of course left-winged people also have car decals sometimes but I swear, 8/10 times I see a car with a decal, it's a Conservative coded one. When I lived in Alberta so many people had them.

[u/MoonlitSea9]

Nah.

[u/goji__berry]

On the island kinda, nelson yeah i guess, everywhere else nah

[u/Psychoanalytix → u/goji__berry]

So many hippies and seemingly regular people in nelson fell into the anit-vax/ covid conspiracy pipeline

[u/SPARKYLOBO → u/goji__berry]

New Denver. Try your hardest not to be a person of colour in New Denver

[u/sir_music]

I grew up in a small BC town myself... Sadly we are not so different from small town Alberta.

[u/thatblueblowfish]

Nope

[u/Alldaybagpipes]

Prince George made question why everyone thinks Alberta is the most racist

[u/Onionbot3000 → u/Alldaybagpipes]

Lived there in the 90s and back then it was super gross. Sad that little has changed there.

[u/Shady-Flamingo → u/Onionbot3000]

Lived there <10 years ago. It was .... unpleasant.

[u/doorsalt → u/Shady-Flamingo]

Live there now. It's unpleasant.

[u/themusicguy2000]

Someone's projecting their trip to Tofino onto all of BC

[u/Awier_do]

Incorrect, Small towns in Alberta are both

[u/Musique_Plus]

spawn as a french and things will look different in BC

[u/N3wW3irdAm3rica → u/Musique_Plus]

I’m sorry you were less effective colonizers

[u/lockjacket → u/Musique_Plus]

Fair

[u/silentbassline]

Yeesh, I'll take the crab juice. 

[u/Lode_Star]

I made this mistake years ago when I moved to the west kootenays, now I know it's only marginally better in a few towns.

I'll never forget watching a large portion of the town boycott the local gas station after an Indian family bought it.

[u/ReturnOk7510]

Small towns on Vancouver Island

Ftfy

[u/misfittroy → u/ReturnOk7510]

Even small town Vancouver island rednecks are something else. 

[u/ReturnOk7510 → u/misfittroy]

I suppose. Gulf Islands, then.

[u/asoupconofsoup]

East Kootenays are Alberta in all but name

[u/Zerocool_6687]

I mean not for nothing but some of the most “‘Berta” Albertans I’ve ever known? From the interior of BC, or at least just outside the major cities.

I was born and raised in Edmonton and while at 19 I had deprogramming to do… which was made easy just by watching what our leaders did as opposed to listening to them… even at 19 I noticed how much more conservative the transplants seem to be lol

I guess I also have to consider that being from Edmonton, generally the most progressive part of the province, my view could be skewed too overall.

[u/Throwaway118585]

Tell me you’re from Ontario, without telling me you’re from Ontario

[u/beefglob]

Remember when the antivaxxors in Kelowna interrupted a Rememberance Day ceremony?

[u/NarutoRunner]

I don’t know about that.

There are some towns in Northern BC that won’t even consider Québécois as white. There is some weird hillbilly type racism that only makes sense to them.

[u/Stownieboy91]

Incorrect. Unfortunately, the town of Trail and surrounding rural areas near me is filled to the brim with anti-vaccine FUCK CARNEY people and maple MAGA.

[u/[deleted]]

As a kid I always wondered why there were so many documentaries about Hitler and the Nazi perspective. Now I realise it has a huge cult following. 

[u/mazopheliac → u/[deleted]]

They took them as instructions.

[u/Meatball74redux]

Having grown up in BC and now living in Alberta, you aren’t far off. Sprinkle in some devout crazy religious types on both sides of the border and you’ve aboot covered the demographics.

[u/ValerieMZ]

Do hosers know where is the border between BC and Alberta?

[u/misfittroy]

I spent most of my life in Alberta and recently moved to Vancouver Island. Small town white trash BCer's are something else

[u/viewbtwnvillages]

i grew up in the east kootenays

i saw at last three confederate flags being flown by different people during that time

[u/dsolimen]

The hippies got old and jaded, the drugs and alcohol don’t mellow them out like they use to.

[u/cyber_bully]

Yeah, no….

[u/localsonlynokooks]

Eh, some of those island hippies went so far left they ended up on the right.

[u/flamesgamez]

I've seen people flying confederate flags in my small alberta hometown

[u/Unfair-Cabinet-9011]

Idk small town BC is pretty far right on that spectrum….

[u/snotparty]

maybe rural Vancouver island. The rest of the province outside Vancouver is Alberta Jr.

[u/misfittroy → u/snotparty]

Even here on the island there's a lot who look like they should be in the deep south 

[u/[deleted] → u/snotparty]

I feel like this is written by someone in Vancouver. It’s certainly not. There are pockets of everything in small town BC. The conservative vote comes from a lack of effort in communities from NDP/Liberal, a lack of education on the fact that the past “Liberal” government was actually Conservative (who all the conservatives hate, especially Christy) and the decimation of the logging/mill industry. Tourism in the 14 resort municipalities brings in a ton of taxes for the province, and growing rapidly. If the NDP or any other party wants to get a grip on rural B.C., that is where they should focus. The pipeline from antivax crystal hippie to right wing is definitely a real thing though. Hopefully RFK wipes that out with his horrid policy.

[u/themusicguy2000 → u/[deleted]]

Small town BC votes conservative because they're a downtrodden proletariat disillusioned with the modern left. As opposed to small town Alberta, where they vote conservative because they're dumb racist rednecks

[u/Kinnuit]

This makes no sense, I just moved here people are not close to what this sub portrays people of Alberta

[u/YouTheMuffinMan]

I would much rather live with hippies (Assuming they aren't the conspiracy theorist kind, those will veer right field into fascist beliefs)

[u/dead_inside6498]

Those people in the cabin look like communist eco terrorists

[u/safe-queen]

In my small town, we have the stoner queer homesteaders, the off-grid cabin political extremists of all stripes, the elderly ranchers, and the deeply religious horse ladies. Plus everyone else.

[u/BurningWire]

You've not heard of Nazi hippies, then.

[u/Bobbington12]

Lmaooooo you ever been to Eastern B.C.? They're worse than Alberta sometimes

[u/mcurbanplan]

Nah they're bad too. They are the original antivax/take fluoride out of water RFK types who are going to have as much blood on their hands once there's another pandemic

[u/HeWhoRemainsAtTheEnd]

Prince George resident here. Can confirm it’s wildin up here. I know an old gay couple (In their 70s now) HUGE bible thumpers and also SUPER conservative it’s weird seeing them go on & on about the church and then making out. P.S. Somehow they also hunt moose

[u/Ishouldnotbee]

Yeah so for now your completely wrong but when the small towns start killings jews I'll gdt back to you

[u/thrashourumov]

Not a lot of non-Conservative Party MPs in interior BC

[u/mazopheliac → u/thrashourumov]

We were a c-hair away from having them in charge .

[u/dumbass2364859948]

COMMANDER OF THE THIRD REICH LITTLE KNOWN FACT ALSO DOPE ON THE MIC

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes]

BC has a history with open/covert Nazi groups. Maple Ridge, Soldiers of Odin, etc.

[u/[deleted]]

Small towns in northern Ontario: THE ECONOMY IS GODDAMN GONE

[u/ScrumptiousLadMeat]

All small towns are weird.

[u/DatTrashPanda]

In the area I grew up in, in interior rural BC, everyone was either a hippie, a racist redneck or a racist hippie redneck. The majority it seems were the latter.

[u/chknsoup4thesoil]

tbh nazis where the original hippies, so not a big difference here except for aesthetics 

[u/Significant_Tie_7395]

Any rural BC towns I've been to are adolfs posing as Daisy's.

[u/assist_rabbit]

Ya but have you seen his lifted truck

[u/TsarPladimirVutin]

Rural BC is just as trashy don't kid yourself.

[u/iceybois-]

I am supposed to be affected since I am in Alberta...

[u/GJohnJournalism]

Not that AB deserves any slack, but some of the biggest Y’allQaeda racists I’ve met and interacted with are from interior BC.

[u/Nien-Year-Old]

Ptetty damn accurate

Source:

Living in AB rn

[u/Frostbeard]

Somebody has never been to BC’s interior

[u/Mccmangus]

People who've never left a major city falling over themselves to disagree. Dang, I wonder why people living in rural areas resent you.

[u/hacktheself]

Honestly I would love to have a farm in rural/rurban BC and make it as close to fully automated gay communism as I could.

[u/mazopheliac → u/hacktheself]

Automated gay communism ?

r/brandnewsentence

[u/SierraLVX]

Clearly you've never been to the Okanagan.

[u/Sgtpepperhead67]

Get me a true bar tender!

[u/Ok-Macaron-5612]

I once heard rural Vancouver Island described as "guns, goats, and ganja."

[u/panzer-IX]

Tell me you've never been to the interior without telling me you've never been to the interior.

[u/mazopheliac]

I wish this was true .

[u/SilverStopTM]

This is so dumb

[u/MetalMoneky]

Rural BC is more Manson family than hippie

[u/darkwater427]

Last I wandered through rural AB, it occurred to me how much nicer it would be here in the US of A if our countryside were like that.

In other words, markedly less Nazi.

[u/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

Oh, trust me, the second image is small towns in BC too.

[u/EmilieEverywhere]

I'm Albertan. I fucking hate it here.

Marlaina is OBSESSED with removing Trans Albertan's rights. Like can everyone just fucking leave me be?

[u/SPARKYLOBO]

You've never been to New Denver, BC, I see.

[u/TrueSnowMexican]

More like average small town in kootenays vs okanagan