Posted on 08/04/2022 2:27:02 PM PDT by Noumenon
The author asks the key question:
"The question I’m building up to is: How do we get back to anything that resembles that kind of high-functioning society?"
"The answer is trauma, a set of circumstances that will disrupt all the easy and dishonest work-arounds which have determined the low state of our current arrangements."
Some of us have already performed an exit, a stealth bug-out to small town, rural America. We have done so in the knowledge that urban life will become a hellscape of disease and disorder, of starvation and savagery. When the lights go out, when the toilets stop flushing, when the grocery store shelves are bare, urban/suburban Anywhere will be no place to be.
bfl
I think the population of my little tiny town is set to more than double just this year. There were numerous twenty-five-acre plots near my house, now they’re full of zero lot line houses. Although the city put in some traffic circles, all the same two-lane roads are going to service several dozen times the traffic as The People’s Republic of Tallahassee is only twenty miles from here.
While Tallahassee was bolted down with masks, mask police and one-way arrows on store floors, you wouldn’t have known any of that foolishness was going on in our local stores. A few people were wearing masks, but that was of their own accord. The Sheriff did shut down a restaurant for failure to separate people, but I suspect that was more political than health related. You don’t want to be on the wrong side of a country politician.
I certainly agree with his point. I can understand why young people flock to cities, but I cannot understand why they stay in them. With remote work opportunities and fiber optic communications, the cost of living advantage of living in small towns is very compelling at today’s price points.
American businesses should outsource work to rural America. Real estate is crazy cheap in American towns, and an exodus is overdue from Brooklyn to Bettendorf
Galts Gulch here I come!
We’re all 5 and 10 acre zoned here in the are of Bonner County, Idaho where we live. Everyone has their own septic system and well, power’s from Avista for the most part and we haul our own garbage that we don’t burn. Albeni Falls dam is nearby and produces power, so we can maybe, probably revert to local after a while. But who knows. Lots of local farming for ag and livestock.
“the insupportable costs of the shale “miracle,”
Well, he did say the drug underground was active.
Seems he may also be a customer?
I also live in a small town surrounded by farmland.
But folk are not going to thrive on a diet of onions, garlic, cabbage, and hemp.
So the trucks have to continue rolling even if they have to be converted to steam power.
We may avoid this dire prediction by simply refusing in mass to follow the Lib dictat.
We stop letting them tell us what to do and their power is gone.
And don’t forget common sense that is common where you live.
Just from the photo, I think I know his town. I don’t live far away.
Indeed, all of NY State is in an absurd situation. The best jobs, pensions and health care (besides the relative few on Wall Street) are with government. Everyone just accepts it. In all ways, including weather, it reminds me of softer version of late-communist Eastern Europe
If you can earn a living, and can avoid taxes - Upstate NY is a pretty good place to live. Leftists have mostly avoided flooding small towns with rootless migrants. Cost of living is low (besides taxes) and people are long-term and stable.
Sometimes it just takes a crisis.
When you are young, the cities are where it’s at. The country is dullsville. When you get older, the opposite becomes true. 🙂
The author lost me with this nonsense.
It is simply, factually, false.
We have not had primary local food production since the 1920's, and we will not fall back to that level.
It could happen *if* government enforces it, such as the Greens and the Biden administration appear to wish.
I live in just such a place, it’s fantastic. Like being back in the 50’s-60’s right down to some of the cars, trucks and tractors that drive by. Teenagers hold doors open for me and call me sir. When you hear “dream come true”, this is it.
Strickly depends on where you are. Sure not cheap around here and small acreage is scarce.
Sounds wonderful. Hoping we can move out to a small town when Mr. B retires. Want to be close enough to keep going to our church and close to adult kids, but out of the inner loop of suburbs where we are now. It’s still very nice here, I just dont think it will be in 10 years.
Those who can will step up to the task. In my area, we already have thriving local producers. We also have scalable grwnges and co-ops. No doubt that hard times are doming. A lot of folks are going to perish of disease and starvation. But not everyone. Those who have skills will do well. We’ll still need teachers, historians and beer brewers. Im all three.
Couldn’t agree more, I live in such a place as well.
Think Clarksdale, Mississippi, birthplace of the blues. Businesses are on the outskirts of town. Cheaper to develop than refurbish. Perhaps one business open on every block downtown. It’s the chains taking the path of least resistance. All the colorful history. Cottons not the same.
I agree. The older I get the lower population density I want.
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