modern city life is bullshit. It's not organic. It's controlled by developers and politicians that hoard land and use their city's real estate as a store of value for oligarchs that don't live there.

Your local underground art & organizing space is part of a developer's plan to artwash a neighbourhood as part of their plan for gentrification.

Spend all day commuting and working and competing with consoomers that will do whatever it takes, compromise anything, just to stay in the city. All for what? Access to better bars + clubs for 2 hours of fun oblivion at the weekend? Access to theaters and galleries you don't have time to go to? Access to interesting people? Cafe life at the weekend or something?

fwiw, living rural is difficult if you've lived in a city for a long time. pay is much shittier, it's difficult to integrate, it's conservative. People are less open, imo. But the massive increase in time and agency must count for something. Please tell me it means something lol.

City life, as it's developed, is a tourist facade, and buying into it is supporting the ghouls that control the markets. The same ghouls that keep an apartment in the city, but would never live there.

  • LilComrade [comrade/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    Live in a city and barely get by while working to death.

    Live in the country and slowly die in poverty for lack of work and money.

    Fucked either way. At least in the city i don’t need to use a car to get everywhere. But on the other hand at least in the country i can touch grass and have a room for a yard/garden/pets/animals/workspace/garage.

    • aramettigo [none/use name]
      ·
      3 years ago

      at least in the country i can touch grass and have a room for a yard/garden/pets/animals/workspace/garage.

      That's basically it. Usually a lot more time and control over your life too. Or a feeling of more control.

      • 6bicycles [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Or a feeling of more control.

        I'm coming in swinging because no, absolutely not, unless you go like full homestead off the grid soiar pannel subsistence farming.

        As rural life currently is, you're dependent on the roads being kept intact, or you're fucked. You're dependant on Gas being cheap and available at all times, or you're fucked. If you're not off the grid, you're dependant on someone keeping miles and miles of expensive supply lines running for comparatively few people.

        And sure, this works out okay currently, but putting trust that it will always be kept this way against all economical arguments in a capitalist society is more faith than trust.

      • LilComrade [comrade/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Depends on if you have any money or not though right?

        But yeah i see that. Autonomy.

        • aramettigo [none/use name]
          ·
          3 years ago

          Generally, you can live week to week easier in the country than the city, if you're motivated imo. There are people around here that have bought a small piece of land and live in temporary structures on it. Some of them are definitely realistic. Compared to the cost of years of city renting, or a mortgage, it's nothing. These are not bougie or educated people in any way. It's a different lifestyle, way less time working for someone else, much more free time. The free time will be occupied with chores and work though.

          This isn't meant to be the hippie cult commune post tbh. I have urban fantasies every day lol.