20% longer commute in Rural America? I would really like to see those number and if they are only counting the time for driving to work.
I believe it's possible, but my experience growing up in a very remote rural area and now living in a large town is different.
My hometown was 2x2 miles and the county didn't take but 15 minutes to cross by car. The closest economic center was 30 minutes away.
Here, I had a job with a one-hour-each-way commute! The job I held for decades was still 15-20 minutes away! It takes me 20 minutes to pick up bread from the neighborhood grocery store, and it's less than 3 miles away!
If you work in the city and live in the suburbs, chances are you drive about 30-40 minutes through traffic, no matter the distance. When I leave my house I have zero traffic for 15-20mi. That increase my commute time by 20%. If you work in or near the city, you can drive 5-10mi outside of the beltway and be in corn fields. The difference between those two communities is night and day.. and it's not far. Living on .25acres in a cramped neighborhood, which costs twice as much as a similar sized house on 5acres in the country... and with the probability of SHTF? That makes zero sense to me.
If rghtwingers made a habit of moving into cities instead of out of them we wouldn't have one tenth the problems we've got. "Advance toward the sound of the guns" is still sound strategic advice.
Oh, no doubt.. if it kicks of I'll advance.. I defended my nation on foreign soil, I'll certainly do it domestic. I wouldn't want my family in a war zone though.. obviously. If you live in the city.. or even in the suburbs in some cases.. and you have a family? Nope. The suburbs are between Rural and Urban America.. if, God forbid, something does kick off, I feel sorry for the suburbs.
Not in my experience. The fastest people in the U.S. that I've seen are welfare recipients in the cities. Now think about that! In what other country are poor people fat?! I've been to more than 50 countries and I've never seen a poor fat person except for in the United States of America.
Now, when you see 'country people' depicted in modern media they typically show run down places in Appalachia. Out in those hollers you're lucky to have enough food to put on an ounce of weight... and eating wild game won't put any weight on you. There's a lot of dirt poor people out there, but I can tell you from experience that they're some of the most kind hearted, generous, and interesting people you will ever meet. If you haven't read any books on the people of the Appalachians I'd highly recommend it. No, it's not like the movie Deliverance.... that's ignorance.
I can honestly only think of 1 person who's fat where I live out in the country. I'm not sure why he doesn't live in the city. He's antisocial and even his own sons don't like him. He owns a food trailer and spends most of his time traveling in the cities with fairs and carnivals or something. Other than that SOB, it's all good regular American people as far as the eye can see... and we have people out here of every origin you can think of. Unlike the stereotypes that Hollywierd creates of country life, when we see each other at the farmers market we all treat one another the same and don't think in terms of 'skin color' or 'special interest group'. We don't care where anyone's granddaddy's from. We don't like criminals or trouble makers... but they get straightened out or pushed out pretty quick. I'll see 100 people here and not hear a negative word... in the city you might meet 3 of 10 that are genuinely good people... at least in my experience.
Rural America is still America. Urban America? Not so much. You don't believe me? Go to the Department of Motor Vehicles in the city and sit in the waiting room for 5 minutes.. then go do the same in the country. You'll quicky see what I mean.
Bacon eggs, and biscuits and gravy every morning will change a man... in more ways than one. I don't think that's a rural dynamic, but a regional one. West Virginia? Have you been there? That's not just rural... that's a whole different ball game. Let's make it easier; Upstate New York and New York City? I can't believe they're in the same country much less the same state hah! California is another good example. Drive in any direction out of any of the big cities until you start seeing horses, then talk to someone. Chances are they're a Christian, Conservative, Veteran, Patriot.. or all of the above... in California...
20% longer commute in Rural America? I would really like to see those number and if they are only counting the time for driving to work.
I believe it's possible, but my experience growing up in a very remote rural area and now living in a large town is different.
My hometown was 2x2 miles and the county didn't take but 15 minutes to cross by car. The closest economic center was 30 minutes away.
Here, I had a job with a one-hour-each-way commute! The job I held for decades was still 15-20 minutes away! It takes me 20 minutes to pick up bread from the neighborhood grocery store, and it's less than 3 miles away!
If you work in the city and live in the suburbs, chances are you drive about 30-40 minutes through traffic, no matter the distance. When I leave my house I have zero traffic for 15-20mi. That increase my commute time by 20%. If you work in or near the city, you can drive 5-10mi outside of the beltway and be in corn fields. The difference between those two communities is night and day.. and it's not far. Living on .25acres in a cramped neighborhood, which costs twice as much as a similar sized house on 5acres in the country... and with the probability of SHTF? That makes zero sense to me.
If rghtwingers made a habit of moving into cities instead of out of them we wouldn't have one tenth the problems we've got. "Advance toward the sound of the guns" is still sound strategic advice.
Oh, no doubt.. if it kicks of I'll advance.. I defended my nation on foreign soil, I'll certainly do it domestic. I wouldn't want my family in a war zone though.. obviously. If you live in the city.. or even in the suburbs in some cases.. and you have a family? Nope. The suburbs are between Rural and Urban America.. if, God forbid, something does kick off, I feel sorry for the suburbs.
Not in my experience. The fastest people in the U.S. that I've seen are welfare recipients in the cities. Now think about that! In what other country are poor people fat?! I've been to more than 50 countries and I've never seen a poor fat person except for in the United States of America.
Now, when you see 'country people' depicted in modern media they typically show run down places in Appalachia. Out in those hollers you're lucky to have enough food to put on an ounce of weight... and eating wild game won't put any weight on you. There's a lot of dirt poor people out there, but I can tell you from experience that they're some of the most kind hearted, generous, and interesting people you will ever meet. If you haven't read any books on the people of the Appalachians I'd highly recommend it. No, it's not like the movie Deliverance.... that's ignorance.
I can honestly only think of 1 person who's fat where I live out in the country. I'm not sure why he doesn't live in the city. He's antisocial and even his own sons don't like him. He owns a food trailer and spends most of his time traveling in the cities with fairs and carnivals or something. Other than that SOB, it's all good regular American people as far as the eye can see... and we have people out here of every origin you can think of. Unlike the stereotypes that Hollywierd creates of country life, when we see each other at the farmers market we all treat one another the same and don't think in terms of 'skin color' or 'special interest group'. We don't care where anyone's granddaddy's from. We don't like criminals or trouble makers... but they get straightened out or pushed out pretty quick. I'll see 100 people here and not hear a negative word... in the city you might meet 3 of 10 that are genuinely good people... at least in my experience.
Rural America is still America. Urban America? Not so much. You don't believe me? Go to the Department of Motor Vehicles in the city and sit in the waiting room for 5 minutes.. then go do the same in the country. You'll quicky see what I mean.
Bacon eggs, and biscuits and gravy every morning will change a man... in more ways than one. I don't think that's a rural dynamic, but a regional one. West Virginia? Have you been there? That's not just rural... that's a whole different ball game. Let's make it easier; Upstate New York and New York City? I can't believe they're in the same country much less the same state hah! California is another good example. Drive in any direction out of any of the big cities until you start seeing horses, then talk to someone. Chances are they're a Christian, Conservative, Veteran, Patriot.. or all of the above... in California...