Are small coal towns in mountains still a thing in US?
no, don't attempt to look in to it
they don't exist and aren't comfy at all
Would cleaner fracking cause the same kind of economic development? This question appeared on the gay hivemind.
Some of them turn into tourist spots - I lived in a quiet little mountain town in Colorado, every spring/summer opium poppies would bloom. I was in awe because I didn't think that they were native here, but I extracted some latex and smoked it and well sure enough. What happened is that the old miners from back in the day planned a bunch of opium poppies as sort of like a natural folk remedy because doctors were not readily available. Really cool. But the fire department would come in slash and burn everything almost just as soon as you saw the landscape draped in these lovely orange and red poppies, just absolutely gorgeous.
Pissed me off at the fire department would do this because not many people at all knew that these were real opium poppies - ah, but the hippies did.
See, every year in America there's this thing called the Rainbow Gathering(s) and it's been happening since like the late '60s - doesn't really have anything to do with fags or what, but started out as sort of like a breakaway hippie folkish alternative anti system that has just totally degenerated into a yearly massive drug party. It sucks.
So the rainbow family, traveling back to wherever the fuck they came from, will stop in these little towns and they found my town and would land there, smoke all the opium or make scratch heroin, overdose and die - but that's not really the worst of it, these people are fucked up druggies and they steal and shop lift - one time this rainbow lady dropped her skirt and took a shit right in the middle of the supermarket when she was called out for shoplifting.
They are degenerate White niggers - worse than White trash, and they are an eyesore - and like niggers if they see any thing that is free or welcoming or to be enjoyed at little expense, they will totally drain and destroy it. So you don't want them in your town.
It is like across section of California's Skid Row street mixed with a Grateful Dead cult following are transplanted to your town.
Why do you ask?
Yeah but the mines in most are closed down. Ketchum is full of ultra rich faggots though. The best place in the world to exist during SHTF is the Mountain West and conveniently there's a lot of billionaire properties to raid out here in minecraft.
Since this thread is relatively quiet, I'll give you guys a secret. Look into Mackay ID.
I grew up in Taos, NM before it turned into a celebrity/rich politician retreat and these rainbow assholes showed up. It was the first time I saw regular tolerable art/weed hippies actually get angry. Between them and the Taosenos, they got a pretty hostile welcome. They didn't stay long thankfully.
I play banjo.
you purdy boy?
No. They all fell down the cum shaft. :(
They are, I live in between three of them in a holler.
100% this. Do NOT fucking look for these, OP.
i bet yur real purdy aintcha
Yes except they are awful in every way possible.
Yes Centralia, PA is nice
>I just love the hustle and bustle of the city
What about it, other than being poor and a bunch of dudes living with each other
Great access to undisturbed outdoor recreation, all white, cheap as fuck property compared to SV/ketchum which is just a valley over.
>are small coal towns in mountains still a thing in US?
The whole country burns coal now.
Kinda
I have two uncles who are coal miners. Well, one was but now he's on oxygen for black lung.