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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The larger city area will often be hundreds of miles away

How large is large? How are people getting goods at all living hundreds of miles away from a population center? It doesn't have to be a giant metropolitan like LA or NYC.

The same idea @DrAnthony@lemmy.world is putting into words better.

[-] DrAnthony@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Gosh, I think you'd have to be in the REAL middle of nowhere to be even 100 miles from a population center. Maybe out west in either of the Dakotas or Wyoming or something, but I imagine even then it's quite rare and represents a fraction of a percentage point of the population. "Never let perfect be the enemy of good"

[-] mothringer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How large is large? How are people getting goods at all living hundreds of miles away from a population center?

Usually you consolidate all your errands into one trip every week or two where you buy everything you need at the larger town of a few tens of thousands of people.

My grandmother lived in rural Kansas, and her town had a grocery store and a gas station. Anything else was a 3 hour drive to buy.

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

That's...not a place I'd want to spend my life at

[-] mothringer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ironically, in some ways it's actually a lot better place to live now than it was back then purely because of ecommerce, but the jobs issue is even worse now that it was back then, because all the farm work is now controlled by megacorps instead of individual families.

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