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  • ZetaLightning94@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Yeah, no. This looks absolutely miserable. Everyone speaks highly of cities, but why do you want to be so close to your neighbors? Why do you want to constantly be in large crowds? I want to be so removed that I have to drive 20 minutes to see another person.

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      8 days ago

      I live in a more rural area these days and I can tell you I have to interact with people a lot more. Back when I was in a city with millions of other people within spitting distance I never interacted with anybody. These days I can’t walk my dog without having to have five separate instances of small talk.

      I don’t mind NPCs, it’s the people who sort of know me that are inconvenient.

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        7 days ago

        I still feel like that is better then being just a number in a city. Real relationships with hopefully good people

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          7 days ago

          They ain’t good people. Assuming we’re talking about the US, 50% are hopeless opioid addicts and the other 50% want the police to kill the homeless opioid addicts

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            7 days ago

            Its actually worse in the cities. Homeless are drugged out in clumps across the sidewalk. Agriculture side its usually beautiful landscapes with the occasional drug dens out of sight.

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            7 days ago

            We’re not talking about the US and they are mostly good people. The town mostly votes social democrat, if you’re curious.

            I just don’t want to talk to them about the same three things every day, and many days I would love to just walk around with my doggo and play fetch while I think about my own stuff without being social for thirty minutes.

            That’s on me, all I’m saying is if you’re not into the “everybody knows who you are and intrusively talks to you all the time” thing the rural area is WAY worse for your introvert needs.

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          7 days ago

          Hey, happy that you’re a social butterfly, I am not particularly excited about real relationships with anybody. At least not all the time.

          I prefer when it rains and I’m the only one out, but that’s just me.

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              7 days ago

              I sit on a field on a daily basis and people still talk to me.

              People think small towns are like a house over here and a house all the way over there and you don’t see anybody unless you try. They’re not. They’re like a small segment of a city. You just keep bumping into people you know instead of strangers because there’s less of you and you all go shop to the same store.

              I mean, they are over here. I assume Americans probably have a different read on the matter because they’re weird and they do weird things.

              Cities are cities, though. You don’t talk to anybody because you don’t know anybody. I haven’t been able to change my coffee order in my usual place here because the waiter just brings me my usual without me saying anything now. In a large city I could order a fizzy enema for breakfast and nobody would bat an eye.

              It’s not that one is better than the other, but if you want anonimity and social isolation? It’s cities all the way.

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      7 days ago

      Everytime you see this sort of post and want to say something like this, please remind yourself that you can do it today, and please take that 20min to think if saying such thing bring any value to the conversation or if it only makes you sounds like an idiot.

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      7 days ago

      you do realize that dense cities are literally always in extremely high demand to the point that millions of people are willing to spend absurd amounts of money to live there, right?

      it sounds like you have issues

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        Which I dont understand why anyone would want to spend that kind of money to live in a shit hole… why would someone want to pay to be that close to other people and live in disgusting conditions. I have been to way too many american cities and they are always horrible. Parts of peoples commutes is to step over the homeless who are usually drugged out of their minds. This isnt a “he has issues” its more of a “he doesnt understand the rational”

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      8 days ago

      I think it’s just trailing from the “America bad so anything remotely like America must also be bad”. See: the mention of the Crew Cab pickup.