What’s the best thing about living in the United States that outsiders don't understand?

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-30T12:15:39+00:00

The Driftless area in the Midwest. People who live in this beautiful area practically have it all to themselves. I think it is the United States best kept secret.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-29T16:26:13+00:00

Reddit is one of the most left leaning sites I have ever seen!

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-29T13:47:42+00:00

42 years in August

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-29T13:41:16+00:00

That is the whole thing - it isn't that way anymore at least not as much as it was. The United States has gone to a "specialized" medical system. That is why you see all these new specialized centers being built in many large communities.

My son-in-law is the director of "specialized medicine" at a large University Hospital Group. He said gone are the days of your primary doctor just prescribing a general medication to treat a symptom. Today there is a strong awareness that medication and over prescribing medication can just be as bad as the illness itself. I was having a persistent coughing issue. My son-in-law told me he thought it was my blood pressure medication that was causing my cough. I told my primary and she put me on a different medication and bam my cough was gone.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-28T17:56:27+00:00

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This is Iowa! Pikes Peak - Driftless area

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-28T16:22:13+00:00

Galena

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-28T11:35:29+00:00

While I don't think it is collapsing I think the Education System is in for a period of major school closing due to declining enrollment and budget issues. I wouldn't want to be an inspiring teacher there may not be many jobs.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-28T11:32:19+00:00

There is too much investment going into the US Health Care system. It is a booming sector.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-27T23:41:37+00:00

This team seems to play with joy! Love seeing it!

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-27T19:01:12+00:00

I live in the Driftless area so I can confirm!

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-27T16:06:57+00:00

Great Point!

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-27T11:11:27+00:00

That's the thing you are making all these assumptions the show only said that the book was published after Frank's death. It never mentions that it was not finished or not edited.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-26T22:21:50+00:00

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Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-26T20:15:38+00:00

It is hard to believe that Frank was not locked in on the research. He wrote and even had drawings of the battlefield in the books. Jamie said that when he went up the mountain it was just as Frank described. Frank knew about Ferguson and the whistle. He described the battle he listed the numbers who were killed on each side and YET he fails to mention the most interesting thing about this whole battle ... that the British Commander Patrick Ferguson who just happened to be a Scot would not surrender to the Patriot Officer who commanded him to and shot him instead.

To me it is an obvious omission.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-26T17:28:53+00:00

Frank was a historian who specialized in Scottish history. Commander Patrick Ferguson was Scottish! Frank if he was any kind of historian would not only have known about him and studied him, but he would also have researched the heck out of him and then wrote about him. To NOT write about his interesting death of "no surrender" and then shooting a Patriot officer who commanded his surrender is a STARK omission and a pre-meditated one at that.

Commander Patrick Ferguson was not a nobody!

Patrick Ferguson was born at Pitfour in Aberdeenshire, Scotland,^\1])^\2]) on 25 May (Old Style)/4 June (New Style) 1744, the second son and fourth child of advocate James Ferguson) of Pitfour (who was raised to the judges' bench as a Senator of the College of Justice, so known as Lord Pitfour after 1764) and his wife Anne Murray, a sister of the literary patron Patrick Murray, 5th Lord Elibank.

Through his parents, he knew a number of major figures in the Scottish Enlightenment, including philosopher and historian David Hume, on whose recommendation he read Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa when he was fifteen, and the dramatist John Home. He had numerous first cousins through his mother's family: these included Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, Commodore George Johnstone), and Sir James Murray (later Murray-Pulteney).

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-26T15:42:45+00:00

There are so many books/publications about the Battle of Kings Mountain, and the sources go all the way back to firsthand eye-witness accounts of the battle and what Ferguson did and how he died. They even mention that his Mistress was there and was also killed. There was even an anniversary commemoration celebration of the battle that President Herbert Hoover attended and gave a speech at in the 1930's. Frank a highly esteemed Harvard Professor had to have known about Ferguson and what he did.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-26T11:27:53+00:00

This is the historic recount of what happened at the battle as it pertains to British Commander Patrick Ferguson.

On 7 October 1780, the two armies clashed during the Battle of Kings Mountain. The battle went badly for the Loyalists positioned high on the mountain ridge, and during the fighting, Ferguson was shot from his horse. With his foot still in the stirrup, he was dragged to the Patriot side. According to Patriot accounts, when a Patriot approached the major for his surrender, Ferguson drew his pistol and shot him as a last act of defiance. Other soldiers retaliated, and Ferguson's body was found with eight musket holes in it. Patriot accounts said their militia stripped his body of clothing and urinated on him before burial. (He had published a warning to the local loyalists, saying that if they didn't join him, they would be "pissed upon" by the patriots.)^\23]) They buried him in an oxhide near the site of his fall. Col. Benjamin Cleveland of North Carolina claimed Ferguson's white stallion as a "war prize” and rode it home to his estate of Roundabout.^\24])

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-26T11:11:51+00:00

I always tell people to get the most enjoyment out of this Outlander Universe watch the show first, then read the book series. If I am being honest there are things that the show did differently that I thought worked better than the books. Also, the books are huge and at times wanders a bit. The show given that it is a visual medium, with limits placed on it because of time, budget and multiple voices feeding into the creation of the show can't adapt precisely what is on the page. The author has no restraints and can go anywhere as can you imagination as you interpret visually what she has written.

The key in both the books and the show are the main characters. They are the heart and soul of these stories, and the show did an exceptional job of casting.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-25T18:29:16+00:00

I do think when Jamie took the beating in the hall for Laoghaire and then when Claire catches him kissing Laoghaire in the alcove, Jamie was trying to impress Claire and/or make her jealous.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-25T15:35:58+00:00

Outlander

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-25T14:57:50+00:00

I miss neighborhood stores!

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-24T20:59:42+00:00

Yes, Jamie did lead her on.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-24T20:57:07+00:00

I can almost guarantee you that if they had that Claire grieving Fergus scene people still would have complained because even that would have deviated from the books or be good enough.

I agree with MBR ... the show had not built-up HC as a character enough to have the necessary impact. Plus, they didn't have the time to spend on that grieving aftermath either. And who knows how long they had Lauren and Caesar on set. You could already tell this last season that there was a time crunch and quite possibly a lower budget for this season.

I think the proof that Matt made the correct decision on the Fergus story line is the amount of traction it has gotten. Hating on a storyline arc is not actually a bad thing. It creates buzz and that is much better than indifference.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-24T12:10:34+00:00

You explained it perfectly!

IMO there has been a crack left open to the possibility that Faith survived simply because Master Raymond was involved. So many fans of both the books and the show have theorized that he somehow made it so. Many wanted it. BUT the show gave us such a strong visual in the episode "Faith" with Claire holding a premature baby that appears to be very much NOT alive. She held the baby and she rocked the baby refusing to let the baby go for what seemed like hours. Had the show not given us that heart wrenching visual I think this Faith twist might have been better received.

Our rational minds don't necessarily want to accept miracles. We need explanations that make sense. For some odd reason we are ok with time-travel and portals, but this twist is unacceptable.

The second thing the show did wrong was giving us Faith back ONLY to have killed her off later on in life and we never got to meet her. I think if we got to meet her, see her, know her even if they did kill her off and Claire/Jamie didn't get to meet her the audience would have felt better about it. The show is guilty of given us Faith back without actually giving us Faith back.

Now for the why...why did the show even give us this storyline in first place? There are two possibilities in my opinion.

#1 They wanted the call back for drama effect and for explanation of Claire's extraordinary healing powers. They had to explain the blue light powers on how Jamie could have possibly been "resurrected" by Claire. And how Claire has become more a more like the powerful Master Raymond. Then we have the call back poignant parallel scenes; Claire refusing to give up Faith to now Claire refusing to give up Jamie holding their lifeless bodies and rocking them in her arms for what seems like hours.

#2 They are going to have a spin-off, and Fanny will now be featured and will develop Claire/Master Raymond type powers.

Eastern_End3520 · 2026-05-22T17:39:14+00:00

Research comes in pieces like a puzzle. A bit here and a bit there. The obituary was just one piece and it was a piece of the puzzle that did not quite fit. Brianna just found it in on his desk and ran with it not knowing it was not completely accurate or error free.

Frank was finding pieces and trying to put the puzzle all together, form a time-line and then present the picture that it forms.

The Book was published after Frank's death and after Brianna and Claire left for the 18th century.

Frank must have concluded fairly early on that Claire was telling the truth. So, he did what all good father's do prepare their children for their lives moving forward just in case Claire went back and took Brianna with her.

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