COMMENT BY
twilight from Roseburg, OR
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Roseburg, OR
COMMENT
Local Politics and Culture in Roseburg
I have lived here for a long time. Things have gotten worse, better and worse. I can not label the culture here using normal terms like Conservative or Liberal. I found it doesnt apply here. To me the culture is like a Union. Either you belong, or you dont. I consider myself Conservative, yet I dont fit in at all. Roseburg has a very wild side that some years ago I tried to fit into. But then things just got way too weird. There is crime here. Repeat..THERE IS CRIME HERE! If you get to know too many people on the wild side, it can carry over and stalk you!
Forget the tobacco chewing! There are a lot of meth and heroin busts and recently a string of 4 murders in a few days (That was in Douglas County) For a largely rural area, creepy things seem to be brewing beneath. Have you seen the movie Home Grown with Billy Bob Thornton and Jamie Lee Curtis? Well, Its sorta like that.
I have also had some pretty bad problems at different medical facilities here. Crude sexual jokes from receptionists and one clinic claimed my recent records had disappeared. I consider the medical profession here unreliable at best.
And I think the Conservative perception here is largely to trick outsiders, so they wont suspect criminal activity.
There are some real Conservatives, though. I think I met four.