Rural Living is Better then the Concrete Jungle

[Anonymous]

Very interesting article. Not suprising, though.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2006988/A-rural-life-better-Living-concrete-jungle-really-stressful-make-vulnerable-depression.html

[Anonymous]

I don't know. I would go nuts living so far from civilization. I am not a country person at all.

[Anonymous]

Only if you like the idiocy of rural life.

[Anonymous]

Correlation does not imply causation.

[Anonymous]

Thomas Jefferson >>> Alexander Hamilton

[Anonymous]

I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

I lived in the rural life for 18 years and I couldn't agree more. OP is looking to start a fight, likely between city and suburbs peeps, neither of which are rural.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

Or else it's unending, backbreaking muddy itchy labor, with dirty fingernails and chapped skin, and financial uncertainty, all overlain with the scent of livestock and their, er, output.

I occasionally get a romantic urge to throw it all away and go live the farming life, and then I remember, oh yeah, I already lived that. It sucked.

[Anonymous]

Oooh, OP, I have a book recommendation for you. I haven't yet read it, but it's a memoir of life off the grid in Maine. From the review it sounds as if life was all peaches until the family totally fell apart:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/books/review/book-review-this-life-is-in-your-hands-by-melissa-coleman.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

Well, urban life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's living in an 800 square foot condo, shelling out $20k a year for private school because the local public school has 90% free-reduced price lunches, being crammed on a Metro train, and worrying if your hood will turn back into crack land.

It's all aboot the tradeoffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

Well, urban life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's living in an 800 square foot condo, shelling out $20k a year for private school because the local public school has 90% free-reduced price lunches, being crammed on a Metro train, and worrying if your hood will turn back into crack land.

It's all aboot the tradeoffs.

I think people think the ONLY urban areas are NYC, DC, San Fran and LA. There are other smaller cities that are not this high cost. And not all city schools are terrible.

We were supposed to move to a lower cost city, and we had no fear of living in crackland even in a downtown neighborhood. In fact, there were some lovely downtown neighborhoods that you could buy into for less than $400K with fantastic neighborhood public schools. Sadly, my husband is not in the right industry for that town, so we're staying here for the forseeable future until he can figure out a job that he can do from home there.

[Anonymous]

Too many scary churches in the stix.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who moved to the country because she and her husband wanted their kids to have lots of land to play and woods to explore. Fast forward 6y and she is in fear of her kids going into the woods because of ticks and can't leave them alone outside for even a second because of a creek that runs through the woods on their property. It takes 45m to get to the nearest preschool, they can't find babysitters they trust, and in the end they are trying to sell their house and move back to the burbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

Well, urban life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's living in an 800 square foot condo, shelling out $20k a year for private school because the local public school has 90% free-reduced price lunches, being crammed on a Metro train, and worrying if your hood will turn back into crack land.

It's all aboot the tradeoffs.

That is middle class urban life. Try living in complete poverty with your kids living the Dangerous Minds without the help of Michelle Pfeiffer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like green space and you can get that here in DC. It's far from a "concrete jungle."

Rural life is only good if you have money. Otherwise it's meth land and junked out cars in the yard, my friend.

Life is not good anywhere without money. At least with rural life there is peace and quiet, open spaces and outdoor life/living