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You need to maintain a rural home well enough that you can get out in an emergency, or when you are sick or injured. Or old. Assuming that everyone can always w

You need to maintain a rural home well enough that you can get out in an emergency, or when you are sick or injured. Or old. Assuming that everyone can always walk half a mile, or shovel by hand, is a dangerous game to play. If you slip, fall, and break a leg during a storm, the ambulance won't shovel your drive to come get you.

b112 2y ago
I assure you the paramedics will come down your driveway on foot. What kinda weird place do you live in? So if someone falls in the woods and calls on a cell, you think they won't hike in to help? Really? As in, if you get hurt off of a road, you're screwed? Come on! Or you go to sleep, and wake up sick, but it snowed 2 feet over night. Now no one will ever ever come to help? Your concerns are not based upon reality. And you can fall in your basement and be just as trapped, right in the city!
- eschneider 2y ago
  You're making your response time worse and sometimes that matters. A lot. Do you need to go out on a stretcher? Life's easier if you've plowed.
  - b112 2y ago
    How many people, when buying a home, seek out and assess the mean time to response? Did you buy a home? Or even if you rent, have you checked? Depending upon city neighborhood, average response times vary widely. Some city areas are hospital adjacent. Some are a mean time of an hour away. If you haven't purposefully checked, then why not? Some people live in 6 story buildings with (gasp!) no elevator. What of them? I assure you a stretcher up and down 6 stories is no better than a mere 1/2 mile walk on flat ground. What of power outages in the city? Did you check to see if your building has a backup generator? Yes? No? What do you do if the power is out, and you're on the 35th floor? Yet many city buildings have no backup generator, even tall ones. If one is to throw stones, take care not to live in a glass house. Or in this case, an apartment building.
    - eschneider 2y ago
      Hmmm...Until recently I had an elderly relative living with me and I _know_ the difference in difficulty in getting them out with cleared snow vs not, and it's a lot. Does that sort of thing (and hospital proximity, etc) matter to everyone? No. Or certainly it doesn't matter the same amount. But for some people it will matter a lot.
      - b112 2y ago
        But for some people it will matter a lot. Bear in mind I advocated clearing with a snow blower a walking path. This is far cheaper than owning a truck and plow, and can be done very fast each storm. Note, this is a thread about cost savings in rural circumstances. But my statements about parallel situations stand. And about people evaluating things ahead of time, they just don't. Rural living has different risks, but city born risks are just as high. IMO, higher. Just the additional smog and pollution alone are an issue. It's even hotter in a city. I'm sorry about your incident, but I've seen 6 story buildings with no elevator. People live there to save money too. The stairwells are not conducive to a stretcher either. So people save as they can. All that said, how many people move when they get older, so they're closer to hospitals? I get why you wanted to chime in, with a personal experince though.

b112 2y ago

I assure you the paramedics will come down your driveway on foot. What kinda weird place do you live in? So if someone falls in the woods and calls on a cell, you think they won't hike in to help? Really? As in, if you get hurt off of a road, you're screwed? Come on! Or you go to sleep, and wake up sick, but it snowed 2 feet over night. Now no one will ever ever come to help? Your concerns are not based upon reality. And you can fall in your basement and be just as trapped, right in the city!

eschneider 2y ago
You're making your response time worse and sometimes that matters. A lot. Do you need to go out on a stretcher? Life's easier if you've plowed.
- b112 2y ago
  How many people, when buying a home, seek out and assess the mean time to response? Did you buy a home? Or even if you rent, have you checked? Depending upon city neighborhood, average response times vary widely. Some city areas are hospital adjacent. Some are a mean time of an hour away. If you haven't purposefully checked, then why not? Some people live in 6 story buildings with (gasp!) no elevator. What of them? I assure you a stretcher up and down 6 stories is no better than a mere 1/2 mile walk on flat ground. What of power outages in the city? Did you check to see if your building has a backup generator? Yes? No? What do you do if the power is out, and you're on the 35th floor? Yet many city buildings have no backup generator, even tall ones. If one is to throw stones, take care not to live in a glass house. Or in this case, an apartment building.
  - eschneider 2y ago
    Hmmm...Until recently I had an elderly relative living with me and I _know_ the difference in difficulty in getting them out with cleared snow vs not, and it's a lot. Does that sort of thing (and hospital proximity, etc) matter to everyone? No. Or certainly it doesn't matter the same amount. But for some people it will matter a lot.
    - b112 2y ago
      But for some people it will matter a lot. Bear in mind I advocated clearing with a snow blower a walking path. This is far cheaper than owning a truck and plow, and can be done very fast each storm. Note, this is a thread about cost savings in rural circumstances. But my statements about parallel situations stand. And about people evaluating things ahead of time, they just don't. Rural living has different risks, but city born risks are just as high. IMO, higher. Just the additional smog and pollution alone are an issue. It's even hotter in a city. I'm sorry about your incident, but I've seen 6 story buildings with no elevator. People live there to save money too. The stairwells are not conducive to a stretcher either. So people save as they can. All that said, how many people move when they get older, so they're closer to hospitals? I get why you wanted to chime in, with a personal experince though.