Having a big house, a personal trainer, 5 sports cars, etc., is becoming a sign of cheesiness.
Hear the drums?
Yes, but I simply don't care. I don't live my life the way I do because it's "cool" or trendy. I do it because it makes me happy. I live on a small farm miles away from the nearest urban center and if anything, my lifestyle is going in the opposite direction from most people with options. They're moving away from small towns and rural areas, I'm moving deeper into it. Telling a city dweller you live in the country is more likely to invite derision than envy.
My opinion is that a person's take on all this is significantly influenced by their current living conditions. If I were living in the middle of a dense city (and I spent my teenage years living in NYC) I would worry about overcrowding, lack of resources, how expensive life was, etc. But living out in the country, I see vast amounts of resources (I mentioned in a recent HN thread that I could farm all my own food in a fraction of the land we own if I felt like it), the ability to have as tiny or as large a house as you want and a general feeling of independence and self-sufficiency that city dwellers don't have. The problems you allude to I see as a resource distribution problem, not a resource availability problem.
It's an interesting subject to be sure, but probably OT for Hacker News :-(
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Having a big house, a personal trainer, 5 sports cars, etc., is becoming a sign of cheesiness.
Hear the drums?
Yes, but I simply don't care. I don't live my life the way I do because it's "cool" or trendy. I do it because it makes me happy. I live on a small farm miles away from the nearest urban center and if anything, my lifestyle is going in the opposite direction from most people with options. They're moving away from small towns and rural areas, I'm moving deeper into it. Telling a city dweller you live in the country is more likely to invite derision than envy.
My opinion is that a person's take on all this is significantly influenced by their current living conditions. If I were living in the middle of a dense city (and I spent my teenage years living in NYC) I would worry about overcrowding, lack of resources, how expensive life was, etc. But living out in the country, I see vast amounts of resources (I mentioned in a recent HN thread that I could farm all my own food in a fraction of the land we own if I felt like it), the ability to have as tiny or as large a house as you want and a general feeling of independence and self-sufficiency that city dwellers don't have. The problems you allude to I see as a resource distribution problem, not a resource availability problem.
It's an interesting subject to be sure, but probably OT for Hacker News :-(
"It's an interesting subject to be sure, but probably OT for Hacker News :-("
Thanks for sharing that anyway.