Cousin humpers always wanna pretend like the trees and bugs should get a vote. When they're not demanding that everyone else subsidize their life as a hermit in the middle of nowhere by bringing all the advantages of modern society to their shithole jerkwaters free of charge.

[–] XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

BTW I hate this. The way we've brought the tech into the wilderness. How everywhere has to be modern now. For a long time cities were the place that had industry and tech and the boonies were some dude in a cabin who didn't even have electricity. THAT WAS GOOD! You had a choice. Get tired of modern life? Go live in the middle of nowhere and milk cows or whatever for awhile. Now everywhere is the same. You could be in Nebraska and they'll ask you to do the application online because they don't take resumes in person anymore. It's just so boring.

[–] Shaleesh@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

this sucks and mending the rural/urban quality of life disparity is a good thing actually

[–] XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

I think you are mistaking me wanting rural life to be different with wanting it to be worse. I maybe worded things in a confusing way. I'm not advocating for rural areas not to have electricity again that was an old timey example. I just think it should be different. Simpler. Like think solarpunk. back gardens. clothes on a line. a few animals. etc. The issue now is that rural areas are forced to basically strive for the same ways of making a living as city dwellers because everything is so expensive. You can't live a simple life and relax if a tiny shack is 150k usd and you have a yearly tax on the place you live, and you need a car to drive to the massive big box store that charges the same prices for food as youd see in the city. And then the pervasiveness of tech is a huge issue.

Like yeah you'd have less of the convenience services, and you should, like doordash, uber, etc. But it should also be much cheaper to just live a simple life out there.

I'd also push back on the past having been worse in rural areas. Like the time periods we are talking about where rural areas rarely had electricity were the same ones where cities had shit in the streets and smog like crazy. I'd rather make do without power personally.