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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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      @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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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        But not far away is Plano, OMG I hate Plano. And Frisco.

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        • EddieJenningsE
          EddieJennings
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          Caught up on tickets, so back to documentation.

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          • stacksofplatesS
            stacksofplates @JaredBusch
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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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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @stacksofplates
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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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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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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.

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                • stacksofplatesS
                  stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @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.

                  Ya our mowed yard was only about 4. They have a large field and a lot of wooded area too that was good for hunting and riding 4-wheelers.

                  I don't know how many districts our was made up of, but we had kids ride on the bus that was around a 20 minute drive from their house to get to the school without picking other kids up. I love these areas.

                  Just sucks it's hard to get useful internet out there sometimes.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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                    @stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @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.

                    Ya our mowed yard was only about 4. They have a large field and a lot of wooded area too that was good for hunting and riding 4-wheelers.

                    I don't know how many districts our was made up of, but we had kids ride on the bus that was around a 20 minute drive from their house to get to the school without picking other kids up. I love these areas.

                    Just sucks it's hard to get useful internet out there sometimes.

                    Definitely where we were, the average people out there were super poor. Still are.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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                      @dominica and @ryanov are quite delayed on their flight tonight...

                      https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VLG6138/history/20170227/1840Z/LIRF/LICC

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                      • StrongBadS
                        StrongBad @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @dominica and @ryanov are quite delayed on their flight tonight...

                        https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VLG6138/history/20170227/1840Z/LIRF/LICC

                        That's a long delay, and their arrival is really late!

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                        • coliverC
                          coliver @stacksofplates
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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 think we would be small town similar to this. Southern-tier is pretty much all small town. There is some rural areas but the nothing for miles thing doesn't happen until you get further up north.

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                          • NerdyDadN
                            NerdyDad
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                            Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @NerdyDad
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                              @NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.

                              Rural... hugging the edge of an enormous city, though.

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                              • NerdyDadN
                                NerdyDad @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.

                                Rural... hugging the edge of an enormous city, though.

                                Then that's not my situation at all. Oh, and we had a graduating class of close to 165ish.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @NerdyDad
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                                  @NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.

                                  Rural... hugging the edge of an enormous city, though.

                                  Then that's not my situation at all. Oh, and we had a graduating class of close to 165ish.

                                  Like where I'm from, the nearest city was an hour away and not very big.

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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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 wonder if Omaha would just be one huge suburb for you?

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                                    • Minion QueenM
                                      Minion Queen @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.

                                      Rural... hugging the edge of an enormous city, though.

                                      Then that's not my situation at all. Oh, and we had a graduating class of close to 165ish.

                                      Like where I'm from, the nearest city was an hour away and not very big.

                                      Some of you have been Rochester, NY isn't exactly big.

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender
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                                        My graduating class was over 600

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                                        • Minion QueenM
                                          Minion Queen
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                                          In York (Scott, Art and I graduated from) 60 of us.
                                          In my previous school there were 25

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                                          • NerdyDadN
                                            NerdyDad @Minion Queen
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                                            @Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            In York (Scott, Art and I graduated from) 60 of us.
                                            In my previous school there were 25

                                            So 5% of your class is on ML?

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