[Newfie]

Here's a question, how much of our preference is due to our childhood conditioning?

I grew up very rural, hate cities. It's in my blood, my bones, my being. I can visit and appreciate, but living in one gets to me.

How about you?

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'H')ere's a question, how much of our preference is due to our childhood conditioning?

I grew up very rural, hate cities. It's in my blood, my bones, my being. I can visit and appreciate, but living in one gets to me.

How about you?

[anador]

I grew up on a rural farm in se New England. Hereford cattle chickens etc... Conditioning has little to do with it.

Small rural towns are cities of a different kind, I don't like living in a skyscraper, but three and four story downtowns are extremely comfortable. Especially when the countryside is accessible and nearby. Lifestyle is what you make of it, town can be banal, but so can country.

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', 'I') think Sandy has helped debunk that. While NJ residents dealt with rationing & waited in 3-4 hour gas lines (often recieving no gas after stations ran out) and suffered electricity outages that still continue is some place Manhattan has been back up & running for days.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'M')aybe I'm just overly cynical from experience, but I lived urban, in a very walkable setting. No one walked. They would drive their cars to cross the street; 100yds at MOST. Walk ? no. Go downstairs, get out of the gate, around the complex, cross the street, park, in to store. Even when it indisputably would take longer to drive than walk, they still drove.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'I') grew up very rural, hate cities. It's in my blood, my bones, my being. I can visit and appreciate, but living in one gets to me.
How about you?

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'H')ere's a question, how much of our preference is due to our childhood conditioning?

I grew up very rural, hate cities. It's in my blood, my bones, my being. I can visit and appreciate, but living in one gets to me.

How about you?

[Quinny]

Lived in small towns most of my life but near to open moorland. Most ever walking I do is when I'm staying in cities. Even when travelling by train tube or bus, I walk more than in 'country' areas. London's got a fairly extensive public transport system, but the bus/tube/train stop's were still further than shops/town centre back home(s).

I've found I walk for necessity in cities and pleasure in more rural areas.

[anador]

I dont know if any of you are familiar with this little book, but its right on int he perspective of this thread.

I will try to post some relevant excerpts today (its very small and mostly images with captions. no long winded text)

If any wants the full text PM me

[anador]

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[Newfie]

So far sounds like most of us have rural roots, no one born and raised in Brooklyn or LA.

[AgentR11]

anador, yall might not think much of Texas for our politics/conservative beliefs, but I challenge you to do a Google Maps flyover of typical Texan small cities; not Houston/DFW/Austin/SanAntonio; but say, Carthage, TX.

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... a&t=h&z=13

Your books' design, in living form.

Now, modern economics I think messes with crop and livestock variety; but as a basic example... there ya go.

[anador]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'a')nador, yall might not think much of Texas for our politics/conservative beliefs, but I challenge you to do a Google Maps flyover of typical Texan small cities; not Houston/DFW/Austin/SanAntonio; but say, Carthage, TX.

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... a&t=h&z=13

Your books' design, in living form.

Now, modern economics I think messes with crop and livestock variety; but as a basic example... there ya go.

[anador]

Another interesting plate showing a public cannery, food processing cooperative, built at the center of an Agrarian development. This makes it easier for pre-collapse commuter families to get into canning and preserving.

[Newfie]

Just for clarity, when I think of a city or urban area I think of places of a million or more.

When I think of a smaller urban area, say Halifax with 250,000, I call it a small city or big town.

When I think of rural areas I imagine being able to walk out the back door with a gun and go hunting.

I don't know what others think of when using these terms. Maybe that kinda puts me in some kind of extreme position compared to other folks.

[Newfie]

Here is how I explain the difference between a small city and big city.

In Halifax I order coffee at Tim's, they call me "Love", and they speak some different language that I still manage to understand. When I cross the street cars stop and wave me on.


In Philly I go to Starbucks where things sound like English, but they don't understand "regular coffee" and they call me "78." When I cross the street they swerve at me, blare the horn, scream in unintelligible dialects and use universally known hand gestures.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'J')ust for clarity, when I think of a city or urban area I think of places of a million or more.

When I think of a smaller urban area, say Halifax with 250,000, I call it a small city or big town.

When I think of rural areas I imagine being able to walk out the back door with a gun and go hunting.

I don't know what others think of when using these terms. Maybe that kinda puts me in some kind of extreme position compared to other folks.