Give a buncha rodents all the food, bedding, water, and stress-free living you can give them and they should breed like..well..rats. And have a population boom, right? Maybe not.
Some fascinating parallels to be had in just that one paragraph. To quote Judge Dredd “You put that many rats in one cage and something’s gonna happen.” The apparent message is that mammals ain’t cut out for being put into large metropolises. Even when you give them all the welfare food and shelter they want, they’ll still go bad.
But, men are not rodents. Yet look at any major city and you’ll see that the segments of the population that have everything handed to them seem to be the most troubled and troublesome.
Moral of the story? Stay out of enormous cities. Having just returned from a week in one of the biggest i can tell you with utter sincerity that nothing reinvigorated my mind and spirit more than being able to have room to stretch both physically and metaphorically. Away from the restricting confines of mandatory recycling, absurd gun laws, high sales taxes, etc, I felt I could breathe easier again and feel in control of my life.
Big cities, in my experience, are superior in providing only three things: money, women, and food. High paying jobs, endless varieties of women, and a dizzying array of types of food…thats about all I can recommend for the big cities. But what do I get out of smaller venues, such as where I live? Relatively high levels of freedom, or, at least, qualities that I equate with freedom.
Men or mice…put too many in one place and bad stuff happens. Don’t be there.
Commander:
You are SO right, but it’s not that simple.
All too often almost all the jobs are in big cities too.
Some types of employment can be done anywhere, but some are very site-specific.
The best that most of us can do is have a job in the city and a bolt-hole in a more survival-oriented area. This costs.
So it may be several years (if not more!) before the Family are financially secure enough to move full-time to a rural area and travel to work.
It would be better if this wasn’t so, but the real world is rarely the one we would like it to be.
All the best and keep up the good work!
Another big advantage of cities is the presence of medical specialists, major trauma centers, airports, hospitals and appreciating real estate investments. Living in rural areas is great as long as you are healthy, not injured, don’t need to earn much money, don’t mind driving hours to get to a major airport, and you like buying real estate that barely ever goes up in value.
But when the zombies come you’re good. Yay!
I am healthy, probably make more money than you and I dont mind being 1.5 hours from a major airport because I will not get on a plane. And all my rental properties are making me wealthy. Enjoy your decline! I will.
2 months ago, we meandered on down to So Cal. The only reason that we would make such a trip was that my eldest granddaughter was getting married.
Long story short, I was never happier to get back to my small town here, in Idaho.
And traffic, don’t forget Big City bumper to bumper traffic. Don’t you enjoy the ‘Rush Hour’ (strange name for moveable parking lots don’t you think ?), the sound of the horns. People switching three lanes at the last moment, slowing everybody else behind them down to accommodate their need to exit.
How many times do you say in your mind “Screw this – I’m flooring it !” Its no wonder the movie ‘Falling Down’ was set in the city, it was perfectly understandable how that came about.
I have been in every major and most minor cities throughout the US, Western & Central Canada for one reason or another. Most are situated at a confluence of rivers, natural valleys, Mtn. Ranges, large natural well protected harbors, and have become transportation hubs for once locally, now worldwide trade. All cities survive in this manner, or they soon become ghost towns.
The only thing I have ever found about cities, of any size, is that they are the gathering place of people that need mass people to support their mfg. endeavor associated with ease of transportation of their goods. As this becomes the natural order of the cities, all of their “NEEDS” must be supplied from outside sources. Under any scenario, which will fail first?
To live in any city of any size, to have access to all the goods and ease cities provide, is to trade off freedom for a false idol. You trade off your independence, personal responsibility, and freedom, to have everything you could provide for yourself, and the self satisfaction of it, to have someone else provide everything “FOR” you. IE: you have become your own slave master.
I feel sympathy for people who decide to live at a bugout location and act like it’s 1850. While I understand some people are concerned that the sky is falling, those Chicken Littles have been wrong year after year. Remember Y2K? Nothing came of it. Remember the Mayan Doomsday 2012 prophesy? Nada. EMP from North Korea? Crickets. Massive Iran war? Nope. Where’s that worldwide pandemic you’ve been prepping for over the past 20 years? What’s next, Aliens? Giant meteors?! The truth is that many Preppers suffer from mental illness like a social anxiety and choose a life of isolation for reasons other than actual fear of impending doom. They seem upset that the world hasn’t ended as they realize they’ve just wasted years of their life and burned thousands of dollars on useless preparations for events that don’t happen.
Rural America is in an economic slump while city and suburb-dwellers get rich. 1 in 4 children in rural areas live below the poverty level and there is a critical shortage of doctors. Farm profits have tumbled. Real estate values have been flat for over a decade. Even Prepping blogs are replete with stories of people stockpiling years of preps only to drop dead of a heart attack and be too far from modern medical facilities.
I always thought the goal was to die warm and well fed atop a mountain of preps that never needed to be used.
step down off your soap box. large bulk of us rural folks have lived and/or worked in the great utopias and choose to take the rural living risk. we are not living like 1850, i did not lose 3 children to small pox or go to town in a covered wagon. trust me, i will take cats, griz over your inner city fucks all day. anxiety, is a blessing. never has plan and fail safes been created with out anxiety.
What nonsense, we live in the country because that’s where we want to be. I’ve lived in 3 major cities in my lifetime due to various circumstances and chose to GTFO as soon as possible and moved to the country. Here I raise a garden, fish, hunt and enjoy a great quality of life so no I don’t miss the noise, crowds nor the crime that was an overwhelming part of city living.
What nonsense! I live on 43 beautiful acres in rural America. Yes I have a 45 minute drive to work but so what. The economy is booming here! Wages are climbing like a hockey stick and so are property values and rent values of my rental property. On top of all that all the conveniences, restaurants, entertainment and shopping are a 30/40 minute drive away. Privacy, hobby farming pets that run free, some livestock, hunting, fishing, peace & quiet…… Please stay where you are, you’d hate it here😏
I’m not in a small enough town, but I am in northeastern Nevada which is good enough. I refuse to leave here, even for short visits. I make no friends in my family as I miss graduations, weddings, etcetera. I refuse to go outside the wire. I’ve had enough of the big bad world. Women are better in small towns, being more conservative. Jobs are just as bad, anywhere. You can eat anything, in your own kitchen. And you can go to any doctor or hospital, anywhere in this country, and get terrible service at kings ransom prices. I see no reason to ever visit a big city again. You know what ‘Ol Remus says.
“Stay out of enormous cities.”
A-frickity-frack-f*ckin’-men! Spent too many years in Tokyo, Moscow, D.C., Baghdad, Honolulu, etc., etc.
Never again.
Went to Pensacola yesterday to do some grocery shopping at the impressive naval facilities there, stopped off at big Chinese buffet for lunch, got some great Vietnamese takeout at my favorite ethnic market, and went to Joe Patti’s Seafood for fish, shrimp, oysters, scallops, and mussels to make Cioppino and enjoy on the half shell. Then we hightailed it 3 hours back home. In the middle of nowhere… Felt great to get back.
Regards