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>Basically European towns and small cities coming from exactly one such European town (or more accurately the rural area around it) this is a 20th century buco
by Barrin92 5y ago
>Basically European towns and small cities
coming from exactly one such European town (or more accurately the rural area around it) this is a 20th century bucolic fantasy.
Well-paying jobs are increasingly non-existent as brick&mortar is being killed by tech, education opportunities are limited, as is cultural life increasingly as the economy goes down the drain. More and more people commute 2+ hours to get to the better universities or better paying work. Doctors are hard to get a hold off, and so forth. Internet access as well as infrastructure in general is in mediocre shape because costs are high for small, spread out towns. The demographic shift as young people leave makes it even worse, elderly isolation is awful.
The first time I actually moved to a big city (abroad to Tokyo of all places) it took me a week to understand that the small town is pretty much over and also ridiculously romanticized.
- ericmay 5y agoFunny enough all of those things wind up being true in large metropolis areas as well but then also with its own basket of downsides. Instead of commuting two hours to get to better paying work, you end up commuting two hours to afford the house you want. Doctors you can't get ahold of because their office is too busy to see you, wait 7 months, etc. Universities are impossible to get into because there are too many applicants, or the cost is too high. You can work or be educated over the Internet. Instead of having no culture in the city, you can develop or embrace your local traditions or cultural aspects. If there are none, then you can be the first one to start (building cultures is hard work, like maintaining government). You can have a bucolic fantasy just as you can have an urban dream. Both can be ridiculously romanticized.