HighnDry wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2020 at 9:20pm:

I just came across this one from his youtube channel that provides a lot more details.   (You need to Login or Register

  I just watched most of the video up to the part where he's chopping veggies on the log.

  I think he's found out what some of us that are older have learned the hard way too.

  When you are a newcomer to a small isolated town,
especially from the "big city", some if not ALL the locals will NEVER see you as one of them.

  It's made even worse when you do something successfully that they couldn't.

  I dated a gal once that came from a small town in the UP. She was a born/bred proud Yooper as they call themselves. She had moved here to go to nursing school, get some experience in one of the many local hospitals and then move back to her home area.

We got along great and she knew that if I could find steady work I wouldn't of hesitated to move to the UP.

We each took a week's vacation and she took me home to meet her parents/family. That went fine at first but things quickly soured when she asked her family members that worked in construction ( I was a Foreman for a small company then) IF they would help me find a job if WE moved up there?

They were openly hostile about it. Her brothers and some of her male friends got drinking one night and told me that I THOUGHT I was too good for them because I wasn't ONE of them.

  Long story short, I got into a fight with one of them, came out on top and then her brother jumped on me. Pretty well ruined the whole relationship.

I had taken a lot of verbal abuse before it came to blows. I wouldn't have taken it from ANYONE down here, I shouldn't have taken it for so long up there either.

Harlin turned his cheek too many times. If someone ran me off the road, damaged my truck and hurt my dog, I would confront them, man to man in a public setting and either they'd give me a ( * ) whupping or I'd take one.

  Sometimes you have to draw a line in the sand and be ready to defend it. Bullies like he's dealing with ONLY respect one thing and that's someone that puts MORE fear into them than they TRY to put into their victims.