• TheMechanic@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Nearly every single small town was built on a backbone of rail. They could at the very least put back what was stolen.

    • wsweg@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Rail used for freight. Do you think people were taking the train to the grocery store or the doctor’s office? Not to mention, that’s still in the city. There are people that live many miles away from the nearest public infrastructure, outside of roads and electricity.

      Then there’s the dilemma of being at the mercy of the train schedule. 1 to 2 stops a day. It’s not like public transport in metropolitan areas where there are many stops a day.

      • HardlightCereal@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        Back then, they were walking to the general store or the doctor’s office if they lived in town, and they were riding their horse if they were a farmer living out in the fields. Today, we have such inventions as bicycles and paved roads to replace horses. The future is now!

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          1 year ago

          Have you ever even been to a rural area? Based on your comments it seriously does not seem like it.

          • HardlightCereal@lemmy.worldOP
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            1 year ago

            Yes, I have. And being an australian, our rural areas are a lot more rural than the rural areas most of these americans are from. Now I’ll tell you a secret: There’s a good reason australia was mostly empty before colonisation, and there’s a very common sense reason why australia’s environment has been dying ever since then.

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              1 year ago

              Dude… Australia is still fucking empty. The majority of you live in cities, and not rural. The majority of you live on the coast. The majority of Americans do not live near a city, most of us a miles and miles from one.

      • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        There are people that live many miles away from the nearest public infrastructure, outside of roads and electricity.

        Yes! And they should move away and be helped with that.

        Rural places will never have city services. Never. There’s only a tiny minority of professionals and artists who want to heroically settle into such places. What would be needed in this case, if you really wanted it, would be a military/authoritarian like regime to force people to work there. It happened in the past, I have lived in such times in my part of Europe. I don’t see that happening in liberal capitalism.