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I don't think that's a fair comparison. I think a better one would would be hurricanes.
With hurricanes you get warning days in advance (I live in Florida). With tornadoes, you might get a few minutes warning, and with earthquakes, not so much (as far as I understand it).
I'm writing this post from my home in Manhattan, Kansas, a mid-sized town in the Flint Hills. We had a gorgeous sunset tonight and I watched it from my back porch, staring across my lawn in the rolling ranch land behind me. I'm working for a San Francisco YC alum tech company but living in one of the most affordable places in the US. Life is amazing out here. I have gigabit fiber internet, great third-wave coffee sho…
No tourism or things to do that are different.
Miles and miles of miles and miles.....
I might move back to my home state in the Midwest, if they got rid of their own Brownback equivalent... but Kansas... meh.
Sorry!
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Though I understand that it likely seems rural, by US definitions you live in an urban area. Any area with over 50,000 people is urban, which Manhattan manages even before adding the 25,000 non-residents there most of the year. The labeling system seems outdated. I live in an area that is rural, yet everyone in a 120 mile radius of me would say I lived in a city. A new classification of "rural city" seems necessary.…
In the UK that would be a town. Nowhere near rural. My parents live in a village with less than 100 people living there. That's rural.
That said, a village with a hundred people doesn't guarantee rural, The City of London's 10,000 residents for example.
This is much less interesting than the rust belt decline or any other number of dying communities. Kansas used to need a lot more people to support farming and thus had enough people around for small towns to have a little life to them. Now they don't. It's a good thing that we can make so much food with fewer people, but it does mean even fewer people will live in rural agricultural communities. We love to romantici…
Maybe we need Lyft to run a rural helicopter transportation service. So that people can live in a town or small city and have a fast, easy commute to distant farm operations where they work.
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Maybe we need Lyft to run a rural helicopter transportation service. So that people can live in a town or small city and have a fast, easy commute to distant farm operations where they work.
That sounds highly infeasible.
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In the UK that would be a town. Nowhere near rural. My parents live in a village with less than 100 people living there. That's rural.
Though we do lack a word for village, it doesn't address the issues with urban/rural. That said, a village with a hundred people doesn't guarantee rural, The City of London's 10,000 residents for example.
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Though we do lack a word for village, it doesn't address the issues with urban/rural. That said, a village with a hundred people doesn't guarantee rural, The City of London's 10,000 residents for example.
The city of london is only a part of a bigger city. A village with 100 people means that there's uninhabited space around that village.
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In the UK that would be a town. Nowhere near rural. My parents live in a village with less than 100 people living there. That's rural.
Though we do lack a word for village, it doesn't address the issues with urban/rural. That said, a village with a hundred people doesn't guarantee rural, The City of London's 10,000 residents for example.
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I think a big deciding factor is kids/age. I'm young and still prefer the city life, so 1 college just isn't going to cut it for me.
I would agree that kids and age play a big part in the appeal of Manhattan for people outside of college age range, but it has other things going for it besides just K-State. https://livability.com/best-places/top-100-best-places-to-li... Kansas City is only a 2 hour drive away to go do bigger city stuff.
We happened to drive through Kansas on the way to a Colorado wedding, during prom season. It was interesting to see all these prom kids dressed up and meeting at truck stops to take pictures or carpool.