If you're single and haven't given up yet, cities present more opportunities for night life. If I had a lady friend, I'd be moving to the middle of the woods.
You can drive to the city from the country if you feel you absolutley have to go there to find women.
i've spent most of life living on the outskirts and it has way more pro's than con's (in more ways than one).
bonus is when you do find yourself a a "lady friend" you can bring her out to a nice chill spot in the country where she feels safe enough to walk to her car without being raped by a savage crack monster.
No, not a club. Nevertheless, having lived in both rural areas and a large American city, you encounter a lot more people in a lot of different contexts being in a city. Living in a very rural area, you don't really encounter anyone. Which is what makes it nice, right?
He wants an independent, college educated tattooed cat-owning BLM-supporting upwardly mobile professional who don't need no man, but who does need to pay off the remainder of her 200k student loan
"ey my cousin just got killed by a dirtbag who took too much codeine and jacked somebody else's car this noon at 16th and Orange, the cops knocked on my door to ask me to identify him then pulled me aside for a twenty-minute interrogation when I used the word 'tripped,' but hey, there are two nightclubs and a barcade downtown I go to every two weeks so it's worth it"
I miss the city I used to live in, mainly for the resturants and nightlife. However, I moved bc the democrats destroyed said city. I now live in a red state in a quiet area, but have only a short drive for any city amenities. Bumble (or similar) is pretty good for making new connections without spending bar money.
If you learn to cook for yourself and invest the time you can not only cook everything to YOUR specifications and create challenge dishes and recipes but you can make for yourself a constructive hobby to hone your skills and impress your friends. Restaurants count on you bringing your friends for a social gathering and convenience to make bank.
Really, a lot of businesses make bank off of social and ingroup pressure to spend collectively. Usually when I go to a restaurant it's to look at a menu and find a new dish to make.
Failing that you can just spam nachos if you're lazy.
I'm a lady who's a decent cook, but I ain't spending a whole day just to cook Japanese ramen if that's what I'm craving. I go to restaurants as a treat once in a while to have something I wouldn't make at home.
I love cooking. I like going to restaurants for the ambiance, the service, and the expert foodie-ness. You're talking like patronizing any type of resturant is a bad thing. Some of us like to get dressed up and go out because it's fun, not to impress others.
I'm not talking about McDonalds, TGIFridays, or some other chain.
No, my children need an LD school which means we have to live in a major metro area.
Life is not all about what I want, it's about providing the best for my kids. I'd love nothing more than live in a rural place, but I have to wait 8 years for that. People's lives are complicated, simple solutions are just that.
I don’t get it either. Have two friends who moved downtown Chicago a few years back and said they will never go back to the Suburbs. But the city and the area they are is still ghetto and shitty. I just do no see the allure of living in a city. I like visiting cities and have lived on one before and I see very little go about it.
Why are "conservatives" so attracted to centuries old rural living, and if so attracted, why are you on the internet, using electricity, and maybe farming using gasoline or diesel powered equipment built in urban environments?
Conservative is not synonymous with Luddite. What you're espousing is basically depopulation on the scale of the worst of the globalists.
Wanting "everyone" to live in a place like that does imply exactly that. Or you're saying that everyone who wants to live like that is dependent on the good graces of the urban dwellers. A very weak argument. Maybe country living folks should put more effort into explaining why the two should be working together towards common goals.
No one's "wanting everyone to live in a place like that". That's you strawmanning.
Even then, wanting people to live in small areas still does not imply that one wants to forsake modern technology. None of those things you mentioned require large, populous urban areas to be manufactured, nevermind the utter lack of evidence that the majority of those things are even manufactured in major urban areas.
"Maybe country living folks should put more effort into explaining why the two should be working together towards common goals."
Why should they when the "country living folks" do not require the urbanite in their lives whatsoever? Why should they put forth effort into something they do not need?
Why are people so attached to urban dystopia?
If you're single and haven't given up yet, cities present more opportunities for night life. If I had a lady friend, I'd be moving to the middle of the woods.
You can drive to the city from the country if you feel you absolutley have to go there to find women.
i've spent most of life living on the outskirts and it has way more pro's than con's (in more ways than one).
bonus is when you do find yourself a a "lady friend" you can bring her out to a nice chill spot in the country where she feels safe enough to walk to her car without being raped by a savage crack monster.
a good chick enjoys a good bonfire.
^ this
then get a lady friend and move to the woods. Or are you intending to find a lady friend at the club...
No, not a club. Nevertheless, having lived in both rural areas and a large American city, you encounter a lot more people in a lot of different contexts being in a city. Living in a very rural area, you don't really encounter anyone. Which is what makes it nice, right?
Well yea but you probably have a higher chance to find the right people out in the "middle of nowhere" vs downtown bigcity
That is true but right now the city is not the place to be heading to, it is the place to be leaving.
If you meet a lady in the city, taking her out of the city is going to be difficult. If you have your own country paradise, ladies find you.
He wants an independent, college educated tattooed cat-owning BLM-supporting upwardly mobile professional who don't need no man, but who does need to pay off the remainder of her 200k student loan
"ey my cousin just got killed by a dirtbag who took too much codeine and jacked somebody else's car this noon at 16th and Orange, the cops knocked on my door to ask me to identify him then pulled me aside for a twenty-minute interrogation when I used the word 'tripped,' but hey, there are two nightclubs and a barcade downtown I go to every two weeks so it's worth it"
Fuck night life.
"Nothing good ever happens after midnight" is pretty sound advice.
Everybody’s going to have a hobby bubbs.
What’s your hobby right?
Drinking
I don't hang out in blue strongholds of violence and debauchery that's for sure.
Go to my friends' houses or invite them over. Sometimes bike together on a trail. I don't see why it should get more complicated than that.
You certainly don't need to go to an nightclub for art and gamedev gatherings. Or tabletop. Or a co-op run of Resi6.
I always found paying to drug yourself and compromise your mental state weird and boorish.
Exactly this. But dating sucks.
I miss the city I used to live in, mainly for the resturants and nightlife. However, I moved bc the democrats destroyed said city. I now live in a red state in a quiet area, but have only a short drive for any city amenities. Bumble (or similar) is pretty good for making new connections without spending bar money.
If you learn to cook for yourself and invest the time you can not only cook everything to YOUR specifications and create challenge dishes and recipes but you can make for yourself a constructive hobby to hone your skills and impress your friends. Restaurants count on you bringing your friends for a social gathering and convenience to make bank.
Really, a lot of businesses make bank off of social and ingroup pressure to spend collectively. Usually when I go to a restaurant it's to look at a menu and find a new dish to make.
Failing that you can just spam nachos if you're lazy.
I'm a lady who's a decent cook, but I ain't spending a whole day just to cook Japanese ramen if that's what I'm craving. I go to restaurants as a treat once in a while to have something I wouldn't make at home.
I love cooking. I like going to restaurants for the ambiance, the service, and the expert foodie-ness. You're talking like patronizing any type of resturant is a bad thing. Some of us like to get dressed up and go out because it's fun, not to impress others. I'm not talking about McDonalds, TGIFridays, or some other chain.
Ah the luxury of being able to live out in the middle of nowhere.
Some of us have jobs to go to, kids to take to decent (private) schools and the need to be close to good hospitals because of said kids.
Sounds like prison, or New Jersey
Tens of millions work from home now and if you live in a rural area, you don't need private schools to protect kids from diversity.
No, my children need an LD school which means we have to live in a major metro area.
Life is not all about what I want, it's about providing the best for my kids. I'd love nothing more than live in a rural place, but I have to wait 8 years for that. People's lives are complicated, simple solutions are just that.
If I was single I'd see the appeal.
I don’t get it either. Have two friends who moved downtown Chicago a few years back and said they will never go back to the Suburbs. But the city and the area they are is still ghetto and shitty. I just do no see the allure of living in a city. I like visiting cities and have lived on one before and I see very little go about it.
Why are "conservatives" so attracted to centuries old rural living, and if so attracted, why are you on the internet, using electricity, and maybe farming using gasoline or diesel powered equipment built in urban environments?
Conservative is not synonymous with Luddite. What you're espousing is basically depopulation on the scale of the worst of the globalists.
They aren't attracted to that. Wanting to live in a small area does not equate to wanting to forsake modern technology etc.
Wanting "everyone" to live in a place like that does imply exactly that. Or you're saying that everyone who wants to live like that is dependent on the good graces of the urban dwellers. A very weak argument. Maybe country living folks should put more effort into explaining why the two should be working together towards common goals.
The only one presenting a weak argument is you.
No one's "wanting everyone to live in a place like that". That's you strawmanning. Even then, wanting people to live in small areas still does not imply that one wants to forsake modern technology. None of those things you mentioned require large, populous urban areas to be manufactured, nevermind the utter lack of evidence that the majority of those things are even manufactured in major urban areas.
"Maybe country living folks should put more effort into explaining why the two should be working together towards common goals."
Why should they when the "country living folks" do not require the urbanite in their lives whatsoever? Why should they put forth effort into something they do not need?
For the same reason that wealthy elites are attracted to living in small closed-off communities.