What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Where have those 7M new people a year been living before these cities went up? In rural huts, right? the natives where basically doing this themselves.
I'm assuming you are joking, right? This isn't very culturally sensitive.
Or do you call American suburban homes being build "natives making huts themselves?"
I guess you get to call me insensitive - from the tiniest amount I've seen on TV, the rural Chinese still live in squalor. If you're telling me that the average Chinese person now lives in what we consider suburbia, thanks for the education.
Most live in very large cities. Over 56% are in cities. Then suburbs are another group. Then villages. Then rural. The average person in China has very little rural exposure.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
the rural Chinese still live in squalor.
You could say that about rural Americans, too. Rural anywhere tends to be pretty poor.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
the rural Chinese still live in squalor.
You could say that about rural Americans, too. Rural anywhere tends to be pretty poor.
If you are in Rural America, you are there for typically one of 3 reason:
- You were born into rural America and you can't afford to drive into the city to work everyday
- You are a farmer/rancher and need the extra land to generate income with
- You are rich and this is apart of your retirement package to live in peace and quietness
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@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
the rural Chinese still live in squalor.
You could say that about rural Americans, too. Rural anywhere tends to be pretty poor.
If you are in Rural America, you are there for typically one of 3 reason:
- You were born into rural America and you can't afford to drive into the city to work everyday
- You are a farmer/rancher and need the extra land to generate income with
- You are rich and this is apart of your retirement package to live in peace and quietness
I enjoy my little rural slice. But for the most part you are correct.
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So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
Pretty much everywhere, yes. Always exceptions, but the average person living in any rural area is normally pretty poor.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
That's what all of the third world says
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
Yeah, I grew up rural. I love small towns, both in the US and abroad. Small towns and big cities are my favourite places to be. Rural is just empty; and suburbs make me shudder. But rural and small towns are vastly different for sure.
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The guy that delivers us fruit didn't have the fruit that I wanted this morning. So this afternoon after he was done with deliveries he ran up to our place with his car to drop off specifically the fruit that we had wanted!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
Yeah, I grew up rural. I love small towns, both in the US and abroad. Small towns and big cities are my favourite places to be. Rural is just empty; and suburbs make me shudder. But rural and small towns are vastly different for sure.
I generally agree that a lot of suburbia is pretty shit.
Schaumburg, IL is good for a suburb, but it is still a suburb. -
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
Yeah, I grew up rural. I love small towns, both in the US and abroad. Small towns and big cities are my favourite places to be. Rural is just empty; and suburbs make me shudder. But rural and small towns are vastly different for sure.
I generally agree that a lot of suburbia is pretty shit.
Schaumburg, IL is good for a suburb, but it is still a suburb.That's how I feel about Carollton, TX. I like that it has a lot of character and culture and is part of Little Salvador.
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But not far away is Plano, OMG I hate Plano. And Frisco.
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Caught up on tickets, so back to documentation.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
My parents have 10 acres and a few of my friends in high school had farms with ~500. I graduated with 98 people. We're fairly rural.
For example, the whole county I grew up in is eligible for a USDA loan.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
My parents have 10 acres and a few of my friends in high school had farms with ~500. I graduated with 98 people. We're fairly rural.
For example, the whole county I grew up in is eligible for a USDA loan.
I did say seems.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My parents have 10 acres and a few of my friends in high school had farms with ~500. I graduated with 98 people. We're fairly rural.
My dad's LAWN is 10 acres! I kid you not. The little farm that we had was 73 overall. Have friends with thousands.
Graduating class was 64 and that was ten combined districts to make that one class. So we averaged 6.4 kids per grade per year per district. And we took kids from other counties, too.
