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Yeah, I live in a rural area and cities make my skin crawl. I'll take my quiet space with lots of room for my kids to play, explore, and to garden and grow food. Where I know everyone and we all have each others backs. Where the vegetation is natural, and there's plenty of bugs and birds, amphibians and mammals. Clean air and clean water. Surrounded by miles and miles of forests.

So many of the things people love about cities are the things I want to get away from, and would sacrifice a huge amount of income to do so.

The suburbs offer people a little taste of that magic and it's no suprise people want that.



You don't have to ban cities to get all that though, there are such areas all over Europe as well just that people prefer the density more until they have kids, and then they move further out to get a house with a yard and need a car.


I've lived in a rural area for 20 years, and I still miss the city




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