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Probably not, I lived in rural Florida (40 minutes from a grocery store) and now I live in a major city. One thing you cannot replace about a city is the how re
by bearjaws 6y ago
Probably not, I lived in rural Florida (40 minutes from a grocery store) and now I live in a major city. One thing you cannot replace about a city is the how reliable EVERYTHING is.
Power? Always working for me, one outage in 3 years. Water? No wells to dry up, also no power required for me to get water (water pump). Sewage? No septic tank maintenance. Internet? Fiber straight to my condo and never have an outage.
Meanwhile in my rural life, I had Verizon wireless internet with a 5gb data cap, one time the cell tower got zapped and no internet for two days. Our well died 3 times in 10 years, which meant no water until we dug a new one. We drove over the septic tank and broke it, so that cost a pretty penny.
Every single electronic in the home had a UPS because our power browned out nearly daily.
Then you have things like living near an AWS warehouse, so I get 1 day shipping on a lot of items.
Cities have a life style that I enjoy more, maybe I'll move to the suburbs but I'll always stay in a major metropolitan area.
- highhedgehog 6y agoI can understand the lack of high speed internet or lack of sewage if you live in a rural aread, but electricy? If you hadn't said you lived in Florida I would have guessed something in a developing or 3rd world country. How is that possible?
- 2rsf 6y ago(Answering from my Swedish experience) Because electricity is mostly dug in in cities, sheltered from the weather while in the country it goes over poles meeting roads and trees.
- highhedgehog 6y agoAnd if you say sheltered from weather in Sweden, I could understand that. In florida? :D
- quickthrower2 6y agoFalse dichotomy: what about a small city? These “problems” are not present in most small villages (100 population) in the UK.