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@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
Library's have free internet. Most restaurants have free wifi.
The Library's is an OK start, but they are only available when the Library is open. This can be very limiting.
And only for people who live near one. Most poor people do not.
Huh? Most poorer demographics are inner city, which is where libraries are.
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@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
Library's have free internet. Most restaurants have free wifi.
The Library's is an OK start, but they are only available when the Library is open. This can be very limiting.
And only for people who live near one. Most poor people do not.
Huh? Most poorer demographics are inner city, which is where libraries are.
And pretty much every local government provides libraries.
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@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
Library's have free internet. Most restaurants have free wifi.
The Library's is an OK start, but they are only available when the Library is open. This can be very limiting.
And only for people who live near one. Most poor people do not.
Huh? Most poorer demographics are inner city, which is where libraries are.
Walking distance in safe areas? Inner city doesn't mean "on my block." And tons of the poorest live away from the inner cities. The library might be within a mile, but it is often not free or safe to get to it.
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@Jason said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
Library's have free internet. Most restaurants have free wifi.
The Library's is an OK start, but they are only available when the Library is open. This can be very limiting.
And only for people who live near one. Most poor people do not.
Huh? Most poorer demographics are inner city, which is where libraries are.
And pretty much every local government provides libraries.
Maybe where you are from. Not in the north. Certainly almost nowhere near me.
Of the ones that were around, most were one room deals that have since shut down. No way they would exist or have Internet today.
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@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
No library or restaurant where I grew up
Where did you grow up?
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@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Jason said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
Library's have free internet. Most restaurants have free wifi.
The Library's is an OK start, but they are only available when the Library is open. This can be very limiting.
And only for people who live near one. Most poor people do not.
Huh? Most poorer demographics are inner city, which is where libraries are.
And pretty much every local government provides libraries.
Maybe where you are from. Not in the north. Certainly almost nowhere near me.
Of the ones that were around, most were one room deals that have since shut down. No way they would exist or have Internet today.
Well I live in the North and they're here. Even in small towns like the one I grew up in. A town of about 4,000 people.
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@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Jason said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
Library's have free internet. Most restaurants have free wifi.
The Library's is an OK start, but they are only available when the Library is open. This can be very limiting.
And only for people who live near one. Most poor people do not.
Huh? Most poorer demographics are inner city, which is where libraries are.
And pretty much every local government provides libraries.
Maybe where you are from. Not in the north. Certainly almost nowhere near me.
Of the ones that were around, most were one room deals that have since shut down. No way they would exist or have Internet today.
Well I live in the North and they're here. Even in small towns like the one I grew up in. A town of about 4,000 people.
I grew up in a village of 800, still had a library and internet.
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@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
Library's have free internet. Most restaurants have free wifi.
The Library's is an OK start, but they are only available when the Library is open. This can be very limiting.
And only for people who live near one. Most poor people do not.
Huh? Most poorer demographics are inner city, which is where libraries are.
That's definitely not the case in my 1 Million person city. There is a library downtown, but no one lives there, save rich people (condos start at $400K). Thinking about the rest of the libraries around the town.. they are definitely few and far between in poorer parts of town.
It's actually pretty bad for those parts of town - so bad that people are forced to walk well over 2 miles in some cases to get groceries. Luckily those parts of town do have better access to the bus system, but it could be better.
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@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
No library or restaurant where I grew up
Where did you grow up?
Wyoming, Co, NY
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@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
Library's have free internet. Most restaurants have free wifi.
The Library's is an OK start, but they are only available when the Library is open. This can be very limiting.
And only for people who live near one. Most poor people do not.
Huh? Most poorer demographics are inner city, which is where libraries are.
That's definitely not the case in my 1 Million person city. There is a library downtown, but no one lives there, save rich people (condos start at $400K). Thinking about the rest of the libraries around the town.. they are definitely few and far between in poorer parts of town.
It's actually pretty bad for those parts of town - so bad that people are forced to walk well over 2 miles in some cases to get groceries. Luckily those parts of town do have better access to the bus system, but it could be better.
Same with 30K cities, like Ithaca, NY. Amazing library, in the high rent district.
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@Jason said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Jason said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
Library's have free internet. Most restaurants have free wifi.
The Library's is an OK start, but they are only available when the Library is open. This can be very limiting.
And only for people who live near one. Most poor people do not.
Huh? Most poorer demographics are inner city, which is where libraries are.
And pretty much every local government provides libraries.
Maybe where you are from. Not in the north. Certainly almost nowhere near me.
Of the ones that were around, most were one room deals that have since shut down. No way they would exist or have Internet today.
Well I live in the North and they're here. Even in small towns like the one I grew up in. A town of about 4,000 people.
I grew up in a village of 800, still had a library and internet.
We STILL don't have a gas station, restaurant or store of any kind. Having a library would be weird.
In NY more people live in the open area between villages than in them. The poorest are in the open spaces.
And for the cost of one library you could have just provided Internet to their homes!
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I think small towns are the least likely to have issues. They're to small to have really bad parts of town in most cases, and as you guys have pointed out, you have a library.
But in the bigger cities, the poor live nearer to the really bad parts of town and walking to a library could be hazardous, and definitely not a close walk.
As for free internet - I've been in those parts of town in my city.. very few private businesses offer internet access to the public there.
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@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
Well I live in the North and they're here. Even in small towns like the one I grew up in. A town of about 4,000 people.
How many people did not live right in town, though? Of that 4,000... how many could walk there? Was it open 24/7? Could you use it as long as you needed? Can you store data in some way? What about people outside of town before you get to another spot where they can walk to the next library?
The number of people that can reasonably walk safely to a library during non-school or work hours is, I think, amazingly small. It always sounds good "my town had one", but the town next to me (10 miles away) had one little one... but even though I knew tons of people who lived there, I only two maybe two that were close enough to walk to it, including the librarian herself (my friend's mom.)
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@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Jason said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Jason said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
Library's have free internet. Most restaurants have free wifi.
The Library's is an OK start, but they are only available when the Library is open. This can be very limiting.
And only for people who live near one. Most poor people do not.
Huh? Most poorer demographics are inner city, which is where libraries are.
And pretty much every local government provides libraries.
Maybe where you are from. Not in the north. Certainly almost nowhere near me.
Of the ones that were around, most were one room deals that have since shut down. No way they would exist or have Internet today.
Well I live in the North and they're here. Even in small towns like the one I grew up in. A town of about 4,000 people.
I grew up in a village of 800, still had a library and internet.
We STILL don't have a gas station, restaurant or store of any kind. Having a library would be weird.
In NY more people live in the open area between villages than in them. The poorest are in the open spaces.
And for the cost of one library you could have just provided Internet to their homes!
False. If you're talking about people out in the middle of nowhere, if there is no line running there, the cost will be much more than a Library.
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@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
I think small towns are the least likely to have issues. They're to small to have really bad parts of town in most cases, and as you guys have pointed out, you have a library.
But in the bigger cities, the poor live nearer to the really bad parts of town and walking to a library could be hazardous, and definitely not a close walk.
As for free internet - I've been in those parts of town in my city.. very few private businesses offer internet access to the public there.
Yeah, it is the rich or affluent village and suburban people who feel like libraries are common and accessible. Once you are in a big city and/or rural the poor have little or no access. My nearest tiny village library as a kid was ten miles. TEN MILES. That's not trivial. And I grew up in a rich state with a good library system and lots of resources. I can't even imagine what a more rural state like Iowa would be like.
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@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
False. If you're talking about people out in the middle of nowhere, if there is no line running there, the cost will be much more than a Library.
I don't think that that is true. Library buildings are very expensive. The cost of running a line is relatively low (you can't use fake inflated current monopoly prices as a reference.) Running a line is cheap compared to building AND STAFFING a building.
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@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
But in the bigger cities, the poor live nearer to the really bad parts of town and walking to a library could be hazardous, and definitely not a close walk.
At the risk of sounding callous. Why are they living there? A few years ago my wife was laid off from work. We sold almost everything we had to move to FL for work. As stated previously on this site, if you want money, sometimes you have to be willing to move.
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@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
At the risk of sounding callous. Why are they living there?
Because they are POOR.
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@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:
@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
At the risk of sounding callous. Why are they living there?
Because they are POOR.
So were we.
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@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:
@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:
But in the bigger cities, the poor live nearer to the really bad parts of town and walking to a library could be hazardous, and definitely not a close walk.
At the risk of sounding callous. Why are they living there? A few years ago my wife was laid off from work. We sold almost everything we had to move to FL for work. As stated previously on this site, if you want money, sometimes you have to be willing to move.
Giving up everything you have and know to go some place else to try to find work is beyond what I would call frightening. Is it needed sometimes, yes.
