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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Most of the U.S. is wide open space, but the people want the entertainment and salaries afforded by the city.
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Salaries, yes. This has been a recurring pattern throughout history: people go to the city in hopes of making a fortune, suffering the greatly degraded quality of life as part of the price. Those fortunate few who do make fortunes, great or small, almost always return to the country and buy estates.
Technology is breaking this pattern, though. There are a lot of people who, like me, can live in the country and telecommute to well-paying jobs.
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As to your art comment, that is entirely subjective. If I had to choose between music and not having to hunt and gather my food, I would forgo the music.
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But we have already foregone art and music. Little if any has been created in the last century, and we can nowadays put most of what there is on a good hard drive.