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It might be inconceivable to the HN demographic but some people truly enjoy the small town/ rural lifestyle

hestipod 7y ago
There is small town rural life within an hour of any big coastal city. You don't have to move to the homogeneous middle of the country for that. Suggesting people move from a popular place to middle America for a good quality of life is disingenuous in my view because its predicated entirely on the fact that it's "cheaper". Their lives aren't going to be "richer"...only their bank account for a time, but even that will fade as salary and opportunity are less as well. Yes some people enjoy being surrounded only by their race, religion, and politics so that outweighs the losses of accessibility, culture, and experience...and frankly most of the ones who have never experienced anything else don't even know what they are missing...getting away from that gave me the only good parts of my life personally. Once again...people don't put photos or postcards of Topeka or Little Rock or some town nobody knows of in the vast sameness of the Midwest on their dream walls. There is a reason for that.
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- selimthegrim 7y ago
  I believe Branson, MO, Memphis and Nashville, TN, and Fayetteville, AR would like a word with you.
- mjparrott 7y ago
  There are nice places to live that aren't on a postcard
- 420codebro 7y ago
  Your opinion stinks like a smelly asshole. By your logic anything more than 100 miles inland is shit. Thank god people like you are mocked mercilessly when out of earshot.
- squish78 7y ago
  My life is incredibly rich, but I measure it more by my physical/mental health, my community, and time I get to spend with my family
wyclif 7y ago
Hey, I'm one of those people. I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania that was rural until very recently, but it's still only about 20 minutes' drive west of Philadelphia. So it had the charm of rural life (at least when I was growing up–it's become a bit gentrified since then) and if you wanted to get your shot of urban culture it wasn't that far away. The real trick nowadays is finding the "middle" small town America: places that have good infrastructure, public transportation, universities, libraries, public works, etc but aren't urban. Of course, it helps a lot if you don't have to commute, or you only have to commute to the office a few days out of the week.
- squish78 7y ago
  That sounds nice. I'm convinced a mid-size college town has the best of both worlds

There is small town rural life within an hour of any big coastal city. You don't have to move to the homogeneous middle of the country for that. Suggesting people move from a popular place to middle America for a good quality of life is disingenuous in my view because its predicated entirely on the fact that it's "cheaper". Their lives aren't going to be "richer"...only their bank account for a time, but even that will fade as salary and opportunity are less as well. Yes some people enjoy being surrounded only by their race, religion, and politics so that outweighs the losses of accessibility, culture, and experience...and frankly most of the ones who have never experienced anything else don't even know what they are missing...getting away from that gave me the only good parts of my life personally. Once again...people don't put photos or postcards of Topeka or Little Rock or some town nobody knows of in the vast sameness of the Midwest on their dream walls. There is a reason for that.

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selimthegrim 7y ago
I believe Branson, MO, Memphis and Nashville, TN, and Fayetteville, AR would like a word with you.
mjparrott 7y ago
There are nice places to live that aren't on a postcard
420codebro 7y ago
Your opinion stinks like a smelly asshole. By your logic anything more than 100 miles inland is shit. Thank god people like you are mocked mercilessly when out of earshot.
squish78 7y ago
My life is incredibly rich, but I measure it more by my physical/mental health, my community, and time I get to spend with my family

wyclif 7y ago

Hey, I'm one of those people. I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania that was rural until very recently, but it's still only about 20 minutes' drive west of Philadelphia. So it had the charm of rural life (at least when I was growing up–it's become a bit gentrified since then) and if you wanted to get your shot of urban culture it wasn't that far away. The real trick nowadays is finding the "middle" small town America: places that have good infrastructure, public transportation, universities, libraries, public works, etc but aren't urban. Of course, it helps a lot if you don't have to commute, or you only have to commute to the office a few days out of the week.

squish78 7y ago
That sounds nice. I'm convinced a mid-size college town has the best of both worlds