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.

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Rural life means drunk driving every Saturday night because there’s no alternative transit infrastructure and your town is too small and shitty to have any ubers let alone a taxi service. The streets are scary after a certain hour out in the sticks. So yea the ability to walk home really sold me on city life

    • FidelGastro [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Of course, if you live in a city with bad or nonexistent transit services, you still have this problem, but worse.

        • FidelGastro [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          In San Antonio, drunk drivers frequently got onto highways going the wrong direction. This happened so frequently that the city installed radar-activated flashing red lights onto the big, red, reflective "wrong way" signs that already existed. That seems worse than anything that happened back home, at least in terms of a policy response. But anecdotes aren't data. :shrug-outta-hecks: