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We always move to quiet places, as did our parents, and everywhere we moved got much bigger very fast. Probably because we couldn't move out to someplace 5 hours helicopter flight out from the next town, as we needed to be within 2 hours commute to work.

Can see the same thing out here, on the Eastern Shore. Used to be nothing but fields and forests and the occasional farm or village, but now it's like

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strip mall

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industrial center

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prison

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shopping center

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... the whole way. Three hours of nonstop development.

Everyone left the city and the city came with them. Now, it's the city looking empty.

Tim Bouma 1y ago

We live in a city that is an amalgamation of over 20 rural areas. It's amazing how much the urban tax base subsidizes the 'rural' infrastructure of roads, sewer, emergency services, etc. I grew up in the country (dairy farm) and have no romantic allusions of living in the country. Now with return to downtown office in full swing, these 'ruralites' are now asking for accommodation to avoid the commute, or for cheap parking downtown.

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Laeserin 1y ago

Yeah, we live in an area where a bunch of villages and towns are starting to merge together. It's been bizarre to watch it happen in real-time.

Tim Bouma 1y ago

For us, we live in a region that is considered the backwaters by two provinces. One of my long term interests is to see whether we can carve out these backwaters into an autonomous region.