14 American Cities Aim to Ban Meat, Dairy, Private Cars by 2030

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I'm just in time then, leaving Philly forever in about 2 weeks.  Well, just in time, for me, would have been years ago, but what can you do.  It does feel like a death trap.  People are rude when things are going reasonably well, I can't imagine how it would be if shit met fan.

I'm glad to hear it! Cities are too controllable - you can control hundreds of thousands of people simply by controlling what enters or exits via a very few access points. That's why all their plans for world domination involve cities - this scheme, the "15 minute CITIES", etc. It's also why they have been slowly herding people into cities over time, since about the 1950's.

Cities are also bad places to be in the event of wars - one bomb can gt a lot of people, more bang for the buck, and they are a lot easier to beseige by just eliminating or controlling the aforementioned access points.

My Dear Old Dad got herded into a city (Cleveland) during the "Great Appalachian Migration" of the 1950's, with promises of work. After about 15 or 16 years, he said "nopenopenope!" and we hightailed it back to the hills, where things are less... controllable.

Back then, the population distribution was about 60 or 65% rural, 35 or 40% urban. In the years since then, with all the herding going on, it is now about 70 or 80% urban, 20 or 30% rural. I got caught up in that mess too, and spent most of my earlier days in cities. It took me a long time to escape, but when I was about  53, I finally made the escape back out into the wild.

I ain't going back. They'll never take me alive, and if they wait too long, they won't even get that chance!



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I'm jealous.  If I didn't have kids, I'd have definitely packed up for the middle of nowhere by now.  I can't tell you how annoyed I get going outside at night and only seeing a handful of stars.  People living within feet of each other.  The noise.  The congestion.  People are not supposed to live like that.  At least I'm not.  Hell, even a lot of the immediate suburbs are too densely populated for my taste.

I do hear more and more people saying the same thing though, and if the market for everything wasn't so shitty, I think a lot of people would have fled the city by now.  It's easy to get trapped when everything costs an arm and a leg.

6 months I spent looking for a house to buy, maybe more.  I didn't have a huge budget to begin with, so you can imagine my hope when my mortgage guy said he had someone approved at $550k, with $60k in the bank, and still couldn't win a bid.  It's amazing the difference in pricing between the city and something rural an hour away.  That $300k, two-bedroom, 1,000 square foot house in the city would practically get you a mansion in the country.  With land.  I've seen highrise apartments sold for over $200k.  I don't understand who would want that.

I am "semi rural" due to my employment. 

I have lived in major cities since the 1990's (or suburbs of) due to the nature of my work.

I am currently about 40 miles away from the major cities in a "farm rural" area. It is not the best scenario but it is the best I can do. I would prefer "woods rural" in a much lower population area.