'Cottagecore' and the rise of the modern rural fantasy

Post by davidw » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 3:43 PM UTC

Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote: post #132

maxerickson wrote: post #110

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Lots of recent TV paints living in a large apartment building as a completely normal thing to do.

Living as a SINK/DINK? Yeah sure. Look at just about any show about raising children at or above the replacement rate and the vast majority are all in homes. Even the family in shameless had a home. The only counter example I can even think of is smilf.

Post by davidw » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 4:06 PM UTC

sjwalter wrote: post #166

davidw wrote: post #87

This is, in reality, probably less 'green' than living in a city. Multi-family homes tend to require less energy to heat and cool, because you share walls. You can also walk to many things, bike, or take transit. My bet is that most of the people living in these rural places aren't so into the 'rural lifestyle' that they don't own a couple of cars that they use for ... pretty much everything in life.

Making large life decisions based on your own personal GHG emissions is living as though you are already dead. I moved out to the country. Bought a big diesel. Started a farm. My GHGs went way up. And yet, my lifestyle change has zero impact on climate change. It's like voting--if you know game theory at all, you know it's a waste of time, just like it's a waste of a life to spend your time calculating and optimizing…

Post by kaybe » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

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Most of the people on this site have plenty of resources to buy into a lifestyle like the one you are describing. But for some reason they don't. To me, it seems likely that there are some serious drawbacks to that lifestyle that you're leaving our, which if further probed would change the equation.

That lifestyle does take a lot of experience your average knowledge worker just doesn't have. People back then knew how to farm their land, they knew went to till and when to harvest, what to plant when and where. They were handy, they were carpenters, but also plumbers, roofers, painters, tailors, mechanics, menders of all things. Skills acquired by being a young child and holding the tools for an adult doing the ta…

Post by Talanes » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 6:40 PM UTC

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Although there is a lot of data to suggest that per capita green house gas (GHG) emissions from urban residents are less than rural counterparts this is not the entire story. Absolute GHG emissions and impact are higher for higher incomes. GHG emissions are a function of wealth not geography. Urban areas have much higher concentraions of wealth. They also outsource much of their GHG creation to rural areas but are st…

Sounds like you're throwing a bunch of arguments at the wall and hoping some of them stick rather than trying to figure out what's true. Wealth is presumably fixed at first-order, so comparing equally wealthy rural or urban residents seems fairest (unless you're trying to argue that cities are bad because they increase economic growth?); if the argument is something like "emissions are only higher in rural areas beca…

Post by rsj_hn » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 6:51 PM UTC

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Motorcycle travel seems fortunately impervious to it. Nobody's cool in full mismatched gear on a bike that's peppered with dead insects and mud. Except Ewan McGregor, you sexy bastard. That, the average age of adventure motorcyclists, and the cost of this seasonal vehicle are enough to keep influencers out.

There are "hot chick" moto vloggers out there trolling for likes with enticing thumbnails.