There is a lot of whiny privilege hidden in this Business Insider article. Mandi Woodruff asks, why, if the North Dakota economy is doing so well, is she living in New York City with its high rent and high salad prices?
Here’s why:
The job market. No one can simply look at employment rates for a state and count on finding a job in their field. North Dakota’s economy may be booming, but that’s mostly due to its mining and shale industry. I didn’t go to journalism school to work on an oil rig. And according to Salary.com, the average reporter in Fargo, N.D. nets only a little more than $31,000 per year.
Going a bit deeper, why did she choose journalism? Woodruff may have written this article just for herself, but her career choice must be looked at as one data point within a trend line of young people opting for “prestigious” jobs. I’d include journalism, social media gurus, non-profit workers, etc. in this group. More people want cushy jobs that don’t require much sacrifice. And today, the biggest sacrifice is being away from culture – TV, twitter, music concerts. Proximity to The Scene is worth untold dollars. People also want to be mentally engaged in their work. That’s fine and good, but those jobs are in high demand but short supply. These seekers have been promised too much by their parents. The business model doesn’t exist for large numbers of them to thrive.
She continues:
The social scene. Though the state has one of the highest ratios of 20-24 year olds to the rest of the population, its largest city, Fargo, has fewer than 200,000 residents. Although I do have a couple of friends there who claim they love it, let’s just say they visit me more than I visit them.
The diversity. Having grown up outside of Atlanta, Ga., I’m attracted to a multi-cultural environment. More than a third of New York’s population are immigrants and my neighborhood in Queens is a melting pot of people from just about every country I could point out on a map. On the other hand, North Dakota’s residents are 90 percent white and fewer than 3 percent are foreign-born, according the U.S. Census.
The vibe. There’s a reason AARP Magazine sent a reporter in person to check out all the cities on its list of the top 10 places to retire this year. No matter how stellar a state’s economic report card may be, the personal connection people feel to a place is what truly matters. I’m a city girl and though I’m always up for traveling off the beaten path, I don’t thrive for very long outside of the concrete jungle.
How can we read this and feel any sympathy for a college graduate? It also makes you realize that, despite all the rhetoric, we really don’t have it all that bad. Jobs aren’t plentiful, but nobody will starve. The worst that can happen (barring catastrophic family events) is that someone doesn’t self-actualize to the extent that they thought they would.
In the “olden days” people moved to where the jobs were. We’ve developed a mindset today that everyone should be able to choose their location and then have everything fall into place. It’s a tradeoff that, as usual, young, spoiled, liberally-minded people can’t swallow. If you hold tight to an entitled mentality, you don’t consider tradeoffs. You think that you get to have the culture and the affordable living space and the ability to start a family if you want in a place that doesn’t require a long commute and which resides near high quality schools with low crime rates. And if you don’t have all of those things then the world has to bend over backwards for you.
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“Although I do have a couple of friends there who claim they love it, let’s just say they visit me more than I visit them.”
How can you tell somebody is lying? When they make an unverifiable claim that they know “many” or otherwise a multiple number of people in an unusual category. Like “I know lots of people who converted to Shintoism.” No, liar, you do not.
Likewise, Mandi does not have a couple of friends who live in Fargo.
Smugness from big-city snobs is really disgusting. And the privilege is right on the open Chuck, not hidden.
Also, reading between the lines is “I get to feel “glamorous”, like the Sex and the City chicks!”. Rotating harems, the wall incoming, Sex and the City is fiction, you know the drill.
She’s a feminist. She went to the big city to be a big shot, get on TV, cruise teh bars, to sleep with alpha men. And now she’s just another face.
Ignore everything she has to say. Wait ten years. Then you will see a tremendous change. Right now she is a liberal multiculturalist personified.
Chuck,
Good article. My brother lives in New York City. For the first couples years he loved it, and thought he was living in the best place in the world. He has a girlfriend, now, and doesn’t really care about the social life. Both of them can’t wait to move out. They want to be able to have a yard, not have to take public transportation everywhere, be able to get a dog, etc.
This woman will likely get tired of New York City. The sacrifices she is making now, to live there, might not seem worth it in a few years.
Young people’s rush to live in major cities, like Ryu touches on, is in part driven by a desire to have fun. But their real and often unconscious motive is to become members of the elite class.
Many are called, few are chosen, lol. Most SWPLs will not make the cut. Rather than moving to The Dakota, they move to the suburbs and settle for middle class. The great cull occurs when their first child reaches school age.
The young whites who move to North Dakota, on the other hand, think long-term like pioneers who settle virgin land of opportunity.
There’s going to be a lot of really bitter single middle aged women in major cities 20 years from now. I wonder how they’ll react once they’ve exhausted their family’s support systems?
How will the ones with children raise their kids? Will their bitterness towards their own life’s path cause them to encourage kids to study real subjects in school? There might be some positive to come out of all of this. These people have upper-middle class genes along with at least an understanding of upper-middle class values. If they push their children into STEM fields, we might have a mini american scientific boom in 40 years.
Eh, who am I kidding? They’ll probably mostly just be the older bar skanks with fading tattoos of the next few decades.
LOL. She attended the University of Georgia, which is about 5% black despite Georgia’s population being 30% black. Basically, all of the black students at UGA are on the football, basketball or track teams (literally).
of course glp conveniently ignores another conservative white terrorist shooting
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/31/13587962-at-least-three-dead-in-shooting-at-nj-supermarket?lite
Anti-Racist, we are Inspired by your posts. white and their supremacism will be gone. What do we do to make it happen faster?
I see the low IQ critic anti-racist is back with his “strong” imaginary downlow boyfriend.
Anti-Racist is a natural leader who has a following among many Brothers who read him and want to meet him. We continue to turn to him for the Truth and to carry out Justice whether you like it or not white boy.
Can it be long before we see the Babylonian minority pushing plural marriage in the US as well? How will they deal with the Mormon issue?
anti-racist sez:
of course glp conveniently ignores another conservative white terrorist shooting
Another shooting where the race of the perp is not mentioned
You don’t appear to be very smart. The liberal media dog whistle is very evident here. When the media does not mention the race of the perp it means that the perp is not white, despite the mention of the perp being an ex-Marine (where affirmative action is also practiced.)
i gaurantee you he is white
Leonard Pitts wrote an excllent article about how the media whitewahses white crime
Anti-Racist you are a reluctant leader I see. The Brothers want to talk with you about things of importance.
The media is racist and will always cover up white supremacy and malign People of Color.
I am not familiar with writer Leonard Pitts. Is he African American?
Dude’s name is Terence Tyler. The argument that the guy is white isn’t looking very good. Not that it matters either way.
Give it up, Leonard Pitts is a dumbass.
How is Mr. Pitts a dumbass?
He is a PULITZER prize winning journalist
you hate because of the truth he tells and the fact that he will not bow down to privileged white men
PLEASE explain to moi how Leonard Pitts is a dumbass
Preach it Anti-Racist.
Most Jew go into journalism not for the money but because their rabbi tells them to.
haha, I suggest we end the race war now….
naked mud wrestling match between Ryu and Advocatus Diaboli….
first to pop a “Broner” gets disqualified….
Chuck-
Did you seriously think that feminist women wanted to enter the workforce to go to far off places, work alone, and forgo the sexual options of the city.
I have my own entitlement. I am willing to work 70 hours a week in my field. I am willing to travel wherever the employer wants to send me. I am willing to learn any software that the employer requires. I am not willing to conform to feminist agenda and change my personality. I am not willing to pursue more education credentials for an entry level job. I believe that creation of a superior product takes precedent over fairness and conformity.
“anti-racist 08/31/2012 at 9:21 am
i gaurantee you he is white”
http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2012/08/nj_supermarket_shooting_confli.html
The article says “conflicting portraits emerge” about the guy, but one thing about his portrait is pretty clear…
I think anti-racist is great. Is Promoting Justice the same guy? I think it’d be hilarious if it turned out they were posting from the same IP address. Of course, it might be even funnier if anti-racist actually had a follower.
he seems like a george zimmerman to me
not really black more “white african american”
white privilege must be considered in all instances because america is built on a culture of white supremacy
The funniest thing, anti-racist, is that you are the one who brought this guy up. Nobody else did. You came around and complained that Chuck was ignoring another white shooter.
Then, of course, when it turns out that he isn’t white, well, he still IS white, according to you. Or at least he has “white privilege”. Because nothing says “privilege” more than having a minimum-wage job at a grocery store, right?
white men commit mass shootings
tyler committed a mass shooting
logcally tyler is “white” ( race is a soclail construct)
What are you talking about Brother?
I actually like anti-racist. It’s like the little evil microbot in Transformers (that was the movie with Mega Fox … and some robots). You know, it befriends her and humps her leg?
Okay, he’s on the side of the Decepticons, but he’s a cute little guy and his laser eyes are kinda ticklish.
Sometimes he gets to humping legs, but a shoo-shoo here and there sorts it nicely.
Courts are far better with a jester. And there be no better jester, methinks.
“… Fargo, has fewer than 200,000 residents. Although I do have a couple of friends there who claim they love it, let’s just say they visit me more than I visit them.”
I call complete BS. Yea right, she’s got not one but “a couple” of friends in Fargo. Mandi Woodruf is a liar, She’s just her trying to make herself sound more important than she is. She’s a sophisticated “city girl” you know.
http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2012/08/nj_supermarket_shooting_confli.html
Racist NAM murderer Terence Tyler served all of 23 months in the marines as an enlistee rifleman (private, cannon-fodder); never left stateside. His short military service indicates a less-than-honorable discharge. Oh yea, he also did one semester at CUNY where all applicants are accepted.
If you were born in the late 1980s and your parents named you “Mandi” then they were prole. How the SWPL hipsters must snicker and roll their eyes when she introduces herself! I would guess she was raised WAY outside of Atlanta and is now trying to overcompensate.
It has been my experience that the most provincial people on Earth live in the middle of the megalopolis known as NYC. Loves diversity, but cannot travel outside of the boroughs. Finds the vibrancy of multiculturalism exciting but speaks only SWPL. Looks down their long noses at the hoi poloi who actually work, but whine incessantly about not being able to find “a job” in their chosen field.
I find them amusing.
We rent a cottage on the farm to people who visit the area on vacation. On occasion we get a SWPL from the city. Some of the most over the top ignorant statements I have ever heard in my life have come from them- recently a 30 something PhD in education from a large midwest city was watching me grub potatoes in one of the gardens when he exclaimed in all seriousness, “That’s disgusting, you keep your potatoes in the dirt?”
I informed him that I didn’t “keep them” in the dirt, that they grew there and that the only way I knew to get them out where they could be eaten was to dig them out. It took him a couple of minutes to process the idea to his satisfaction that yes, at some point they must have grown, but that the actual contact with the earth and soil was somehow not something worthy of actual consideration. It was better to imagine them in plastic bags at Whole Foods.
I am often looked down on by these younger, better educated types even though I know I solve more problems than them in an hour than they do in a week. I produce, they consume, I live in the world, they observe it through a screen. I raise children and tend livestock, they cuddle with fluffy dogs or neutered housecats I would be shocked to find that such insular, sheltered and provincial types had much of an understanding of anything beyond SWPL concerns, hence their inability to consider the greater world around them that lead to a genuine human life.
In the “olden days” people moved to where the jobs were.
They’re still doing that. It just happens to be that the “cool” places are where all the jobs exist:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/troyonink/2012/05/22/the-new-geography-of-jobs-where-you-live-matters-more-than-ever/
“let’s just say they visit me more than I visit them.” Maybe because *they* can afford to travel?
“of course glp conveniently ignores another conservative white terrorist shooting
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/31/13587962-at-least-three-dead-in-shooting-at-nj-supermarket?lite”
I love unintentional self-pwnage. On the other hand, I really think “anti-racist” may be a troll.
“not really black more ‘white african american’”
Well, gee, by that standard I guess Barack Obama is a white guy.
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