People of lemmy, would you live in a rural area? Why or why not?

  • FartsWithAnAccent
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    1410 months ago

    There are a lot of aspects of it that really appeal to me, but I’d miss the shit out of using a bicycle as my primary means of transportation and having everything relatively close.

    • @infinipurple@lemm.ee
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      310 months ago

      To be fair, this largely depends on the country you’re in. Appreciate that the bike is going to be pretty useless in somewhere as car-centric as the US, but I’ve lived in rural areas in the EU where the bike was quite enough.

      • FartsWithAnAccent
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        10 months ago

        I live in the US and my bike is my primary means of transportation, not rural though: When you get more remote, everything of significant distance is highways and it’d be super dangerous trying to ride a bike or even an ebike. You’d need a motorcycle at minimum.

        • @infinipurple@lemm.ee
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          110 months ago

          Yes, sorry, that was the point I was making (albeit poorly). Rural US is an impossibility unless you have a car.

          • credit crazy
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            210 months ago

            Unless you’re a 15 year old me who just has a shit ton of stamina water bottles and a even more shit ton of determination to get to a city so I can throw myself around a roundabout