Who Are The Cit'iots (city idiots)?

My husband and I have been considering buying a farm upstate while the real estate prices are low.  When my husband was reading the "Country Folks" (a weekly farmer newspaper that contains classifieds - we call it the farmer bible) he saw some farms up for auction.  We checked them out online and didn't like the area and I decided to check out farm auctions from the USDA.  There was one in Schoharie that was coming up for auction soon.  We checked it out using Google Maps and the found the property boundaries on the tax assessor's site.  We decided to take a ride and check it out.

As we drove north we started to notice more and more pickup trucks instead of cars.  We noticed junk in people's yards instead of pristine landscapes and we commented on it that we could never get away with that in our town anymore.  We felt as though we were driving through our town 30 years ago.  We found the road that the farm was on and we headed up the dirt road.  We were really excited because the road on our old dairy farm was dirt.  We were driving slow and a pick up truck came up behind us, so I pulled over the best that I could.  He went by us and gave us a dirty look.  We started driving the roads that surrounded the farm to get an idea of the area.   We saw a few Mc Mansions with pristine landscaping but overall there were mainly working farms. We were pleased to see real people with kids riding old bicycles in the driveways. At the same time though, we were pleased to see a few Mc Mansions because that meant that if you needed to sell off a lot, there was demand. We took pictures of neighboring farms and streams by the roads.  Several times we had pickup trucks go by us and again we got dirty looks. 

It took us awhile to realize that they had identified us as 'cit'iots' and we fit the profile.  We wished that we had put a bumper sticker on the car that said "My other vehicle is a Tractor".  We  realized that if we bought a farm up here we would have to put up with the local's dirty looks.  Maybe we would fit in our with our cows and older tractors but I think it would take quite awhile to be accepted because the truth is, we have become cit'iots.  We were looking at the farm with an eye for future subdivision, just like the cit'iots did in our neighborhood.  We were looking down at the locals wondering how they could make a living from just farming.  I guess it is a matter of your perspective.