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I read the article, which stated slow response times. > The local EMS station has one ambulance to cover 7,000 people spread out over 200 square miles. Propert

I read the article, which stated slow response times. > The local EMS station has one ambulance to cover 7,000 people spread out over 200 square miles. Properties more than two miles away from the station are generally given the weakest insurance safety rating of 10 based on how quickly help can arrive. The ranch is twelve miles from the station. New York, Austin and other major cities have a rating of one, by contrast. > “There are quite a few wealthy people that have these ranches, which are just big ranches with the nice homes,” said Kenneth Welch, a retired engineer who has lived in Blanco County for 17 years. “They’re gated and you can’t just drive in.” By contrast I live in a major American city, with a world renowned hospital only 0.3 miles away from me (and all the other people) and a police station similar distance. It’s simply a fact that moving to a rural gated ranch will make freak accidents harder to respond to.

defrost 3y ago
Now you're adding "gated" .. There's no point here, I merely added the accident details as I was curious, and the location photos for the same reasons. I'm over 60 and have spent most of my life in places far more remote than this, albeit in the company of people that deal with accidents, fires, floods, medical dramas as they happen without waiting for big city emergancy services.
- monero-xmr 3y ago
  I added “gated” because that was a key fact in the article explaining why she died. My point was rich people sometimes move to very remote, inaccessible mansions to avoid the hoi poloi, but there are trade offs.
  - defrost 3y ago
    I guess "gated" must somehow really really slow down emergancy crews on their way to an accident in Texas. > move to very remote, inaccessible mansions It really doesn't seem that remote, I can see other properties in the neighbourhood, it appears to be 10 mile or so from Johnson City (~2,000 people), etc, the property is under a thousand acres. This is all relative, of course; I live in a state 3x bigger than Texas and the vast bulk of the population of ~ 2 million live in the one corner making the rest of the state easily more remote than this. If you live in a large city then I guess all places "not a city" must seem equally remote to you, but I can assure it's very much not so - I worked in geophysical exploration in two thirds or so of the 190+ countries across the globe and on a remote scale of (say) New York City to Baliem Valley this is pretty much G20 city outskirts.
    - JohnBooty 3y ago
      Okay, we get it. You're a rugged, self-sufficient outdoorsperson.
    - twizz512 3y ago
      That's not a neighborhood it's a gated 900 acre ranch with assorted buildings.
kkfx 3y ago
Seems logic, but might not be at all: due to high traffic and local congestion a big hospital might be both reachable and long to act on a newly arrived patient than a smaller one in a small center AND remote areas might get quick assistance from choppers than a big city with cars. Here (EU) we have "10' intervention guarantee" in cities, 30' outside, but horror stories in big cities are far more common than outside.

defrost 3y ago

Now you're adding "gated" .. There's no point here, I merely added the accident details as I was curious, and the location photos for the same reasons. I'm over 60 and have spent most of my life in places far more remote than this, albeit in the company of people that deal with accidents, fires, floods, medical dramas as they happen without waiting for big city emergancy services.

monero-xmr 3y ago
I added “gated” because that was a key fact in the article explaining why she died. My point was rich people sometimes move to very remote, inaccessible mansions to avoid the hoi poloi, but there are trade offs.
- defrost 3y ago
  I guess "gated" must somehow really really slow down emergancy crews on their way to an accident in Texas. > move to very remote, inaccessible mansions It really doesn't seem that remote, I can see other properties in the neighbourhood, it appears to be 10 mile or so from Johnson City (~2,000 people), etc, the property is under a thousand acres. This is all relative, of course; I live in a state 3x bigger than Texas and the vast bulk of the population of ~ 2 million live in the one corner making the rest of the state easily more remote than this. If you live in a large city then I guess all places "not a city" must seem equally remote to you, but I can assure it's very much not so - I worked in geophysical exploration in two thirds or so of the 190+ countries across the globe and on a remote scale of (say) New York City to Baliem Valley this is pretty much G20 city outskirts.
  - JohnBooty 3y ago
    Okay, we get it. You're a rugged, self-sufficient outdoorsperson.
  - twizz512 3y ago
    That's not a neighborhood it's a gated 900 acre ranch with assorted buildings.

kkfx 3y ago

Seems logic, but might not be at all: due to high traffic and local congestion a big hospital might be both reachable and long to act on a newly arrived patient than a smaller one in a small center AND remote areas might get quick assistance from choppers than a big city with cars. Here (EU) we have "10' intervention guarantee" in cities, 30' outside, but horror stories in big cities are far more common than outside.