• Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    God I feel your pain. The last person I try to say that not having a car in a rural area is impossible. Basically wanted to just force move everyone to the city. When I asked about farms he said the farmers could stay but all of their services had to move to the city. Yeah …

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      4 months ago

      I’ll say I’m about halfway to “just live in cities”, but I’ll explain why. I come from the Midwest, the breadbasket, the most lucious soil on the planet and the perfect place for agriculture. My entire life I saw the best farmland paved over for walmarts, stripmalls, and endless suburban sprawl. For those who live in areas like that, even towns of 15k, they think they live rurally, but they’re really wanting to live an urban life claiming they’re rural. So for those people, yeah, I do say we should give up the notion of them being rural and move to an actual city with actual city life.

      Let the actual rural folk do what they do best, and let them live rural lives, and give that land over to those who want to work it. We don’t need more big box retail taking up good farmland.