From: steve (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 14:32:58 MDT
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From: "the animated silicon love doll" <cheshire@velvet.net>
To: "steve" <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Cheap Living (was Invisible Friends)
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Tuesday, May 28, 2002, 1:06:42 PM, you wrote:
> Very interesting. If it is so cheap and generally pleasant to live in
small
> town/rural America (as I'm sure it is) then why do people pay to live in
> Silicon Valley etc? Is it just that all of the jobs are in the high cost
> metropolitan areas? Or is there some other reason? You can see the same
> phenomenon here in Europe. The French are abandoning the countryside and
> small towns (very beautiful, fantastic quality of life) to live in mass
> suburbia around Paris and Marseilles. Here in Britain London is like
Silicon
> Valley - a house like the one I live in (4 bedrooms, £50 thousand) would
> cost £500 thousand in many areas. I just don't understand:)
Some of us like living in cities. I know if I lived in a rural area,
no matter how beautiful and how good the quality of life is for most
people, it would be about as low as it can get for me because of my
allergies. Even when I have/can afford medication, they're still hell.
If I could find an area to live with no plants or animals or dust
around, I would be VERY happy. And cities happen to be closest to that
:)
Oh, I agree completely, I'm a city person too - that's why I live in
Manchester. It's suburbia that I hate! Also I am puzzled by the amazing
contrast between expensive cities/urban areas like London/Bay Area and cheap
ones and the way that despite the huge cost of living differential there's
no trend I can see for people to start moving from the high cost to low cost
areas.
Steve Davies
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