What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
Yeah, I grew up rural. I love small towns, both in the US and abroad. Small towns and big cities are my favourite places to be. Rural is just empty; and suburbs make me shudder. But rural and small towns are vastly different for sure.
I generally agree that a lot of suburbia is pretty shit.
Schaumburg, IL is good for a suburb, but it is still a suburb. -
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
Yeah, I grew up rural. I love small towns, both in the US and abroad. Small towns and big cities are my favourite places to be. Rural is just empty; and suburbs make me shudder. But rural and small towns are vastly different for sure.
I generally agree that a lot of suburbia is pretty shit.
Schaumburg, IL is good for a suburb, but it is still a suburb.That's how I feel about Carollton, TX. I like that it has a lot of character and culture and is part of Little Salvador.
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But not far away is Plano, OMG I hate Plano. And Frisco.
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Caught up on tickets, so back to documentation.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
My parents have 10 acres and a few of my friends in high school had farms with ~500. I graduated with 98 people. We're fairly rural.
For example, the whole county I grew up in is eligible for a USDA loan.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
My parents have 10 acres and a few of my friends in high school had farms with ~500. I graduated with 98 people. We're fairly rural.
For example, the whole county I grew up in is eligible for a USDA loan.
I did say seems.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My parents have 10 acres and a few of my friends in high school had farms with ~500. I graduated with 98 people. We're fairly rural.
My dad's LAWN is 10 acres! I kid you not. The little farm that we had was 73 overall. Have friends with thousands.
Graduating class was 64 and that was ten combined districts to make that one class. So we averaged 6.4 kids per grade per year per district. And we took kids from other counties, too.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My parents have 10 acres and a few of my friends in high school had farms with ~500. I graduated with 98 people. We're fairly rural.
My dad's LAWN is 10 acres! I kid you not. The little farm that we had was 73 overall. Have friends with thousands.
Graduating class was 64 and that was ten combined districts to make that one class. So we averaged 6.4 kids per grade per year per district. And we took kids from other counties, too.
Ya our mowed yard was only about 4. They have a large field and a lot of wooded area too that was good for hunting and riding 4-wheelers.
I don't know how many districts our was made up of, but we had kids ride on the bus that was around a 20 minute drive from their house to get to the school without picking other kids up. I love these areas.
Just sucks it's hard to get useful internet out there sometimes.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My parents have 10 acres and a few of my friends in high school had farms with ~500. I graduated with 98 people. We're fairly rural.
My dad's LAWN is 10 acres! I kid you not. The little farm that we had was 73 overall. Have friends with thousands.
Graduating class was 64 and that was ten combined districts to make that one class. So we averaged 6.4 kids per grade per year per district. And we took kids from other counties, too.
Ya our mowed yard was only about 4. They have a large field and a lot of wooded area too that was good for hunting and riding 4-wheelers.
I don't know how many districts our was made up of, but we had kids ride on the bus that was around a 20 minute drive from their house to get to the school without picking other kids up. I love these areas.
Just sucks it's hard to get useful internet out there sometimes.
Definitely where we were, the average people out there were super poor. Still are.
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@dominica and @ryanov are quite delayed on their flight tonight...
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VLG6138/history/20170227/1840Z/LIRF/LICC
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dominica and @ryanov are quite delayed on their flight tonight...
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VLG6138/history/20170227/1840Z/LIRF/LICC
That's a long delay, and their arrival is really late!
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
My parents have 10 acres and a few of my friends in high school had farms with ~500. I graduated with 98 people. We're fairly rural.
For example, the whole county I grew up in is eligible for a USDA loan.
I think we would be small town similar to this. Southern-tier is pretty much all small town. There is some rural areas but the nothing for miles thing doesn't happen until you get further up north.
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Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.
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@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.
Rural... hugging the edge of an enormous city, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.
Rural... hugging the edge of an enormous city, though.
Then that's not my situation at all. Oh, and we had a graduating class of close to 165ish.
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@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.
Rural... hugging the edge of an enormous city, though.
Then that's not my situation at all. Oh, and we had a graduating class of close to 165ish.
Like where I'm from, the nearest city was an hour away and not very big.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So guys - do you feel that rural seems to be pretty poor only?
I don't. The cost of living is less generally so even if you aren't making as much money goes a bit further.
I agree with that. I'd rather live in a rural area. I grew up in one, and we weren't poor. I'm not poor now, and I would rather live there. We have a lot of areas that are "rural" but you can get to a large area in less than 20 minutes. I prefer to live in the quiet and then go to the city if I need to.
I am sorry, but your concept of rural america seems inclusive of most small town america. Small town != rural.
Yeah, I grew up rural. I love small towns, both in the US and abroad. Small towns and big cities are my favourite places to be. Rural is just empty; and suburbs make me shudder. But rural and small towns are vastly different for sure.
I wonder if Omaha would just be one huge suburb for you?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.
Rural... hugging the edge of an enormous city, though.
Then that's not my situation at all. Oh, and we had a graduating class of close to 165ish.
Like where I'm from, the nearest city was an hour away and not very big.
Some of you have been Rochester, NY isn't exactly big.
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My graduating class was over 600
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In York (Scott, Art and I graduated from) 60 of us.
In my previous school there were 25
