I also grew up in the “basically just suburbia but worse” and your description is 100% right. Trump flags as far as the eye can see, McMansions galore. The only agriculture is a small number of cow pastures.
Mostly it’s exactly like suburbia except the houses are farther apart so that the small business tyrants can buy horses for their shitty kids and enough driveway space for their boat. Oh and it takes over an hour to get to a real city.
There was a small amount of agriculture in my hometown yeah, like a few cow pastures and some pigs. One family though had a grape plantation and and a huge mcmansion. I remember them because they hilariously had an artificial lake dug out to the side of their property near the highway that was maybe 40 feet across at the most. They'd use it for jet ski races. Every Saturday if you were on the highway, you'd see two goofballs doing the tiniest little jet ski race in a tight circle.
You are absolutely right about vineyards being tacky and digging those pointless artificial lakes and building disgusting McMansions. This kind of excess is why I'm anti-rural. With the money spent on that you could do significant renovations to a school or hospital. Collectivize farming man!
Comrade, most rural areas don't have any of those things, just the rich people "rural areas" near major cities. I'm in the absolute middle of nowhere, in a village of approx 200 people, and, while one or two rich bastards do move here occasionally (usually people who used to vaccation in the area🤢), most people here are dealing with the opposite of excess. We don't have heating or ac, many of us are living in trailers, i got thrown out of the last house i lived in because it being knocked down for "uninhabitable" levels of mold and the walls fucking crumbling. Our infrastructure is long gone. What you see on tv and tiktok is not the experience of most rural people lmao.
But you are right that collectivised farming would be nice tho
I also grew up in the “basically just suburbia but worse” and your description is 100% right. Trump flags as far as the eye can see, McMansions galore. The only agriculture is a small number of cow pastures.
Mostly it’s exactly like suburbia except the houses are farther apart so that the small business tyrants can buy horses for their shitty kids and enough driveway space for their boat. Oh and it takes over an hour to get to a real city.
There was a small amount of agriculture in my hometown yeah, like a few cow pastures and some pigs. One family though had a grape plantation and and a huge mcmansion. I remember them because they hilariously had an artificial lake dug out to the side of their property near the highway that was maybe 40 feet across at the most. They'd use it for jet ski races. Every Saturday if you were on the highway, you'd see two goofballs doing the tiniest little jet ski race in a tight circle.
You are absolutely right about vineyards being tacky and digging those pointless artificial lakes and building disgusting McMansions. This kind of excess is why I'm anti-rural. With the money spent on that you could do significant renovations to a school or hospital. Collectivize farming man!
Comrade, most rural areas don't have any of those things, just the rich people "rural areas" near major cities. I'm in the absolute middle of nowhere, in a village of approx 200 people, and, while one or two rich bastards do move here occasionally (usually people who used to vaccation in the area🤢), most people here are dealing with the opposite of excess. We don't have heating or ac, many of us are living in trailers, i got thrown out of the last house i lived in because it being knocked down for "uninhabitable" levels of mold and the walls fucking crumbling. Our infrastructure is long gone. What you see on tv and tiktok is not the experience of most rural people lmao.
But you are right that collectivised farming would be nice tho