The lack of self-awareness is thoroughly amusing. The feeling is mutual, I assure you. I've lived in suburbs, city centers, rural areas, deserts, inland, coas

The lack of self-awareness is thoroughly amusing. The feeling is mutual, I assure you. I've lived in suburbs, city centers, rural areas, deserts, inland, coastal. I put my money where my mouth is and rented in high density new builds in downtown SF for 3 years. It was utter crap. There's no community, no shared story, and literal crap on the streets. I've also seen what happens when urbanites move out to the country; they don't know how to respect the space of others. They build monuments to anti-Native American racism right up to the edge of their property line, when they have 10 acres they could have used to gap out like everyone else. The ethos of a place is provided by the people who've lived there for a long time. That ethos can only be preserved when growth is carefully considered, and doesn't screw over the people who've cooperated for a very long time to make the place what it is.