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> All of which is available to people that don't live in the city. We have various forms of transportation options.

Not really. It is a big difference between having mat 30 min to gym, school, whatever or whatever and not even needing a car and having to drive almost an hour to get anywhere. It is difference between "I can and will actually do it" vs "nope, cant do it".

> Hell I once flew halfway across the country just to catch KMFDM in concert.

That is definitely not something an average person would do on the regular.



> Not really. It is a big difference between having mat 30 min to gym, school, whatever or whatever and not even needing a car and having to drive almost an hour to get anywhere. It is difference between "I can and will actually do it" vs "nope, cant do it".

Man if you think adult humans are that helpless I really don't know what to tell you. They aren't, but apparently you'd need some convincing.

> That is definitely not something an average person would do on the regular.

Sure, it's a pretty extreme example. It's nothing for folks to drive up the eastern seaboard between Atlanta and Baltimore to catch shows though. Anyway point stands, none of the entertainment and cultural experiences that folks who are stuck in major urban areas use to tout the experience are denied to folks who don't live in the city.


> Man if you think adult humans are that helpless I really don't know what to tell you. They aren't, but apparently you'd need some convincing.

It is not about being helpless. It is about day having certain amount of hours, you needing minimum 8 of them for work, another 8 for sleep and showering, then another time for cooking, cleaning, putting kids to sleep, ensuring they do homework and simply being at home supervising them. If your kids cant engage in hobbies without you driving them there and back, then congratulation, you just spent 3 hours driving and waiting.

Additional 3 hours a day needed to get to work, back from work, to gym and from gym are a time you simply cant use for anything else.

> none of the entertainment and cultural experiences that folks who are stuck in major urban areas use to tout the experience are denied to folks who don't live in the city.

Sure, it is just that they require more effort, time and money to get there and back. So much, that you just wont do it on the regular.




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