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    6 hours ago

    I’m in New York City. There’s maybe a dozen food places within ten minutes. There’s more, but some of them may be in the 15-20 minute range. Several million people live here.

    What hell do you live in that’s so remote?

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      2 hours ago

      You’re a privileged person who has no idea what you’re talking about. You need to get out of you think that is the norm.

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          9 minutes ago

          You live in like one of the top 10 cities in the world. Shut up. Your experiences don’t trump real people’s real struggles.

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            What kind of place do you live?

            Why does one of the most populous cities experience not count?

            Why are you so emotionally invested in this?

            Do people in large cities not struggle? Why do you think one set of struggles trump another?

            Are you alright, dude?

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              Why does one of the most populous cities experience not count?

              You insisted everybody was wrong because you’ve lived a different experience and that your experience is the “true” experience.

              You’re a narcissist jackass. Instead of taking any amount of time to think about others and their experiences you immediately went to you and your experiences and attempted to negate others experiences.

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      Man, I grew up in the country and I feel like it took practically no time to get what city living is like (currently live in one). You really are proud of having no idea what other ways of life are like? It’s supposed to be rural people that are the ignorant ones.

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        No, I was asking about which specific hell they live in. edit: not specific like “give me your address” but like, suburb, countryside, whatever. Maybe I shouldn’t post before breakfast.

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          Fair enough, but honestly 99% of the places you can live in America are like that or worse. Your mind would be blown if you took a road trip in the American southwest. I drove on one highway in new Mexico that didn’t have cell service for a 2 hour stretch. More than an hour between gas stations. And I actually saw homes people lived in out there.

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            I’ve lived in the suburbs and traveled around the US a fair amount. I think sometimes about a time I was in suburban Illinois, and we were like “maybe we can order some food.” Opened up google maps and it was a wasteland. I think there was like one KFC open in the area.

            My mind is more blown by why people defend living like that. Or actively choose it. It’s a horrible kind of place to live.

            Ok, fine, sometimes there are tradeoffs. A guy I know bought a house out in the sticks someplace in the northeast. Has a yard for his kids. It’s not too expensive. But it’s a long-ass drive to get anywhere, and there’s nothing to do. Not a trade I would make.

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      Anywhere that is not a city? Each time these things come up, I become more and more convinced that city dwellers have no clue what it is like to live anywhere else.

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        I was asking which specific hell they live in, but clearly I did not phrase my question clearly.

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        I become more and more convinced that city dwellers have no clue what it is like to live anywhere else.

        It’s just that the vast majority of people live in cities. So whatever some rural people are doing - good. But maybe y’all need to cook and not expect some poor person to work 80h/week hauling your soggy fast food around just to break even - that’s not far from slavery.

        If you can regularly afford delivery you’re certainly way better off than them.

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          Yes and no, most people do live in cities (if we’re still talking about the US), but a minority of those cities are actually walkable. And many cities are limited in what areas are walkable.

          It’s hard to find data on this obviously, so I can only speak anecdotally. Take a city like Dallas for example the core portion can be walkable, but it very quickly turns into un-walkable sprawl. Cities like Seattle and New York are very walkable. Then you have cities like Jacksonville and Orlando that are absolutely un-walkable.

          I’d wager that more population lives in this un-walkable areas since the cores usually host buisnesses instead of apartments

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          A city may contain as few as 1 person. Cities are not defined by their total population or by their population density. Large cities are NOT the norm. You’re the exception. You’re the special case. You’re privileged. You’re rude. You’re out of touch. Maybe travel.

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              (5) The term “city” means (A) any unit of general local government which is classified as a municipality by the United States Bureau of the Census or (B) any other unit of general local government which is a town or township and which, in the determination of the Secretary, (i) possesses powers and performs functions comparable to these associated with municipalities, (ii) is closely settled, and (iii) contains within its boundaries no incorporated places as defined by the United States Bureau of the Census which have not entered into cooperation agreements with such town or township to undertake or to assist in the undertaking of essential community development and housing assistance activities. Source

              • 42 USC § 5302(a)(5)

              Absolutely no population requirement