Small Towns Are Evaporating

Yeah, that's not what she said. She never said it WAS about the internet.

 

Small town culture, I imagine, disappeared with the widespread accessibility of the internet.

oh Piaf..I like to sit with you one sunny day..
in a pub in Zagreb....and have endless discussions with you....
**stol za dvije osobe,molm vas**

i'm not an easy dude in discussions,Piaf..**nemoj me tako zadirkivati..**

 

no, not the internet. if anything that could have made them more attractive if access to it had been improved there. and evaporating isn't the right term either. they have been smothered beneath a form of development that forces people to worship the automobile. it was the development of automobile oriented suburban tiky taky that spelled their doom, and that was a choice, not an inevitablity. the same choice and the same kind of choice that is dooming humany's future.

 

Yeah, that's not going to happen.

 

ahah..Piaf..that's no problem for me at all...Zagreb pubs are lively and full of smiling folks...
bas imas ljep osmejh...
Spunk café/bar around National University Library?

 

Town where I live is quite small, but used to be a lot smaller. Now it's sprawled out to be quite a lot bigger, and gone downhill quite a bit in the process. Most of the old local shops have been replaced by big chain stores, half the pubs have gone or been turned into rather twee wine bars or restaurants. Also a wave of new business parks and retail parks has been built over the last 30 years or so, which have completely changed the town centre. Rabbit hutch type housing is another feature that's destroying the place, and every new house means probably 2 more cars to clog the already congested traffic flow.
All the small town atmosphere that once made it a nice place to live is being erased.

 

never been

 

How fast and reliable is your internet?

 

Not that fast but better than expected for DSL this far out. Moderately reliable.

 

Isolated small towns suck ass, unless you happen to enjoy obedience. Small towns near big towns are where everybody wants to live, except for young single people who want to be downtown 24/7.

 

If you disagree with him, sure, but at least have an argument against it...which is currently lacking.

 

Because it's too easy, and he's not persuaded by evidence.

He said Agenda 21. Happened in '92. The move from rural to urban areas has been happening in the US for the entire 20th century. Here's a chart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization#/media/Fileercentage_of_World_Population_Urban_Rural.PNG

 

this is completely illogical. the only thing you have to obey in complete wilderness is your own survival. nature doesn't demand much, but isn't very good at forgiving stupidity either.

small towns, REALLY SMALL towns, are the consensus of the people who live there, ALL the people who live there, or would be, if there was any such thing as a free country.

the real problem is no one can stay there if they want to, because there's only so much you can do for work in one, (unless you're retired and have a pension or you work for intercity infrastructure of some kind, or your parents do, or mining, agriculture or forestry or the like, or run one of the few mom and pop storefronts, which are dying because every retard drives to the effing mall, even for the stuff that they have) and of course, diversity of rewards within any one of them, i'll grant you that, tends to be more limited then in more crowded places. but at least you can sleep without some asshole drunk arguing with his ghosts and the top of his lungs at all hours of the day and night.