People of lemmy, would you live in a rural area? Why or why not?

  • Echo Dot
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    1 year ago

    No. I grew up on a farming area (not as a farmer just in the area) and it was boring as hell.

    It might have actually been ok if we had any land to farm because then we’d have had something to do but it was just a farmhouse on a farm that we otherwise didn’t own.

    Very picturesque, but the internet was terrible, it was like a 2-hour drive to the nearest town, and that was hardly a metropolis, all the shops used to close at about 2:00 p.m. on a Sunday. No nightlife. The local newspaper once ran a major story because somebody had thrown a firework in a lake, the coverage was as if world War 3 had been declared, it was the most interesting thing that had happened in decades.

    I don’t need to live in a major city but I like to live somewhere where if you want to get some corn flakes it doesn’t become a great expedition.