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  • bluewing@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    As one of those more rural Americans-- we’ve always lived that life of not being able to get those things the rest of you take for granted. Whether it’s tofu, cell phone service, or healthcare. So my life will continue with little disruption.

    • tamman2000@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      I live in the most rural congressional district East of the Mississippi. I’m posting from my Wi-Fi that runs off a 5g while I’m laying in bed in my off grid house that’s half a mile from the nearest neighbor.

      My fridge is full of tofu.

      Even Walmart has tofu now.

      Quit lying to people about what it’s like here.

      • bluewing@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Good for you. Where I live, there is still no cell service, (got to be in a town for that), and the US Postal Service will not deliver mail to my home, (I need to pay $165 a year to get a postal box in town to get my mail and I need to drive to get it). I do have internet most of the time, but that and the electricity can be sketchy in a storm, the hazards of living in a forest. So if I can’t access that, Oh well, been there before. And I have lived many years without it. Like I said, we will just do without. Oh, and the nearest Walmart is in another country, Canada. I need an enhanced driver’s license or passport to shop there. So I ain’t missing much there either. The nearest hospital, (level 3, the “barely a hospital” level) is 50 miles away and the nearest ambulance is 20 miles away-- you have a heart attack, you will probably die before help gets there.

        There is wannabe rural like you and then there is rural.

        • tamman2000@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Good for you.

          The fact that I’m in a district that is among the most rural in the US and I’m still a “wannabe” tells me that there aren’t many places left like where you are in the country. Don’t act like you have any significant numbers when you describe people who live like you. You’re not representative.

          Either that or your exaggerating. Which I’ve noticed people around me doing a lot. Hell, you might not live that far away based on what you described. You talk about where you live like my neighbors do.

          • bluewing@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            The numbers are still non-zero across the northern US. Needing a passport to shop at Walmart should be at least a hint that I’m over 1000 miles away from you. And I should probably be happy that I’m not as representative as you I suppose. In any case, enjoy your “rural” life.

            Me, I’mma waiting for iceout on the lake and for the frost danger to go away, (about another 4 weeks), so I can get my garden in again.