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The closest thing that might get you there is farming communities in the Midwest... with no power, or cell phones, or cars, or houses, with dangerous wild anima

The closest thing that might get you there is farming communities in the Midwest... with no power, or cell phones, or cars, or houses, with dangerous wild animals still roaming about, no medical treatment, no firearms, and no prior 21st-century civilization thought patterns, and you're still only sort of glimpsing it. Seriously? And people in the Midwest are still somehow the "ignorant ones" ... Stay classy.

TheAmazingIdiot 15y ago
That's not what he said. I live in Indiana, in the middle of the sticks. There's farms on 3 sides of us, with a smallish forest on the 4th. Cell phones go in and out regularly (we live in hilly terrain). We have no high speed internet, nor does our house have reliable 3G service. AT&T is due to roll it out within a month. Deer are the most common pest. I've had 3 totalled vehicles because of them. The next are the wolves and coyotes we have. A few years ago, a mailwoman was attacked by a pack of wolves and dogs. We also have rattlesnakes and cottonmouths along with various other not as poisonous snakes. In our area, we also have black widows and brown recluses. Admittedly, I only live maybe 50 minutes away from Indianapolis (via I65). But even a half an hour out of Indy can leave you in some ass-backwards part of the state. And honestly, many people I know locally choose to be ignorant. I tend to think it's an American attitude against "bein dem smart types", and not just Midwesterners.
- funthree 15y ago
  It is an exact quote of what he said.
jerf 15y ago
No, that was, "Start here (Midwest), then add the following things to get closer". Obviously none of those are true... even if you were feeling persnickety and critical "no firearms" should have been a bit of a clue! (Might I also add that farming is increasingly a technological job; they are on the forefront of practical robotics, to say nothing of the knowledge that industrial farming requires about various bits of chemistry and finances.) I chose the Midwest farming communities because of population density. Even a "small village" today is packed very tightly compared to "the old days"; hooray modern sanitation!

TheAmazingIdiot 15y ago

That's not what he said. I live in Indiana, in the middle of the sticks. There's farms on 3 sides of us, with a smallish forest on the 4th. Cell phones go in and out regularly (we live in hilly terrain). We have no high speed internet, nor does our house have reliable 3G service. AT&T is due to roll it out within a month. Deer are the most common pest. I've had 3 totalled vehicles because of them. The next are the wolves and coyotes we have. A few years ago, a mailwoman was attacked by a pack of wolves and dogs. We also have rattlesnakes and cottonmouths along with various other not as poisonous snakes. In our area, we also have black widows and brown recluses. Admittedly, I only live maybe 50 minutes away from Indianapolis (via I65). But even a half an hour out of Indy can leave you in some ass-backwards part of the state. And honestly, many people I know locally choose to be ignorant. I tend to think it's an American attitude against "bein dem smart types", and not just Midwesterners.

funthree 15y ago
It is an exact quote of what he said.

jerf 15y ago

No, that was, "Start here (Midwest), then add the following things to get closer". Obviously none of those are true... even if you were feeling persnickety and critical "no firearms" should have been a bit of a clue! (Might I also add that farming is increasingly a technological job; they are on the forefront of practical robotics, to say nothing of the knowledge that industrial farming requires about various bits of chemistry and finances.) I chose the Midwest farming communities because of population density. Even a "small village" today is packed very tightly compared to "the old days"; hooray modern sanitation!