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This is not what the post to which you're replying is advocating, quite the opposite. People in big cities get far more exposure to "the world" than outside of
by nogabebop23 6y ago
This is not what the post to which you're replying is advocating, quite the opposite. People in big cities get far more exposure to "the world" than outside of these centers, mostly because the world comes to them every day.
- mrits 6y agoThe world doesn't come to NYC. Most of the world could never afford to travel there. What a horrible outlook.
- noirbot 6y agoThat may be true, but the world's definitely not coming to whatever small town you'd live in in Upstate NY moreso. Living in a city doesn't mean you never leave it any more than living in the country does.
- mrits 6y agoWith so many people in NYC spending all their money on rent, it certainly does.
- noirbot 6y agoDo you have any evidence of this? Almost everyone I know who travels to "see the world" lives in a major city, and almost everyone I know who lives in a smaller town hasn't even left the country in their lives. There's something to be said for the sadness of not having the money to travel the world, but that doesn't seem particularly better for people out of cities in my experience.
- ghaff 6y ago>Almost everyone I know who travels to "see the world" lives in a major city, and almost everyone I know who lives in a smaller town hasn't even left the country in their lives. And probably most of the people I know live in smaller towns outside of (many quite a way outside of) major cities or in/near smaller cities and many travel a great deal.
- noirbot 6y agoYea, not to say it's not the case. We're both trading anecdotes here. I'm sure there's probably statistics for it though. My assumption would be that the amount to which someone travels is fairly correlated to their income, adjusted for local cost of living? I'm not sure where that would be higher though.
- ghaff 6y agoThere's a big difference between in major cities and near major cities. Certainly, not all that long ago, wealthier people mostly lived in suburbs though that's probably not as generally true today for coastal cities in particular. I tend to know more older people who mostly don't live in urban cores.
- econcon 6y agoI moved to a small town and I bought a lot of land because I am trying to become a YouTube and own a lot of machines and post lots of projects. I can't get the land in city at affordable price.