Rural upstate NY in the Catskills where redknecks live by their stereotype and are proud of it. If you aren’t born and raised, you
don’t belong. Unless you are either related to a
local, or you can
lie and manipulate yourself to the “
top”, you will be ostracized. If you’re a
man, you better know a trade otherwise you will be rendered
useless. If you’re a woman, you will be circled by predatory type men that have a pastime hobby of drinking until near
death. They will claim to be real men and then cave at confrontation when their woman needs their protection most. Their mommies have unrealistic expectations of you as their baby boy’s partner, and you will have to deal with her snide remarks. What he’
ll need is a replacement mother, not a partner. Women and men are living to get their egos stroked, and will stop at nothing to be the “better” love interest for people they
don’t have any true intentions for. Friends won’t really be your friends. They will backstab you to be in the good graces of those considered more worthy by really shitty standards.
Don’t bother calling out shitty behavior, they will just deny and repeat until they drive you to do something they can actually hate you for. There are some good people you will meet along the way, but their minds will soon enough succumb to groupthink, and they will choose to believe the rumors over your own word. They
don’t want to know the
truth regardless.