Quote Originally Posted by hatidua View Post
The only place I see that being the case is on gun/survival forums. When I talk with those not within those groups, most don't have any desire to freeze their hind ends off in the mountains or swat mosquitoes endlessly.

I think that Ranger is correct. It is the same way on automotive forums. People tend to think that the mountains are less inhabited than the cities (they are correct) and that they'll be room for them and less dirt bags robbing and rioting. Just look at I-70 into the mountains on July 4th and Memorial day weekends, and every weekend of ski season is enough to turn me off from the mountains.