Holy cow is right.
You are pushing such a bad position here it’s unbelievable. 30,000 people describes the Aberdeen/Hoquiam area too. Terrific. The tri-cities are small cities of people spread out over miles and miles - Hanford, agriculture and a little wine. That’s the tri-cities, and they’re an hour away. Not isolated? It is in the far southeastern corner of the state of Washington - a part of the state known for being particularly isolated. You may be the only human being in the state of Washington to maintain that line. It’s not as isolated as Joseph, OR, but it is damn isolated.
I am absolutely certain that any person who reads this and then makes that trek for the first time will actually laugh out loud in the car remembering this debate.
You keep adding words to the thread like “uncivilized”, “underbelly” and “wretched”. You keep bringing things up like “friendly town folk”, what people in the West are used to, on no basis you accuse me of having a weird cultural bias, you bring up the crime rate, and point out ad nauseum that different people like different things. With all of those things being entirely irrelevant and/or inaccurate, you’ve now decided to redefine “rural” to get to the answer you want.
What happened to “it’s a darn good school in a very nice small town.”? Pick another word then. I’m not married to “rural”. I certainly wasn’t representing that the campus sits on a farm. For Pete’s sake.
Going in circles with you. I’m not going to keep repeating myself, nor continue to chase you around as you dodge, deflect, mislead, mischaracterize and redefine the debate.
I have no skin in the Whitman game, so I’m truly done here.