Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Journeyman Pictures"
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There are ways to get Internet just about anywhere. And if you had all that fresh air and things to do outside, how much Internet would you really want or need? There are probably a million Americans who would love to homestead and set up a permaculture way of life in such a rich environment. They're getting the science down to where you can live well, off the grid, in the middle of a desert!
The main drawback is raising girls in rural areas. Girls yearn for the social, for community. Boys can grow up playing and working, outdoors and feel like it's heaven compared to anywhere else. Most girls need more of a community to thrive, emotionally. My nephews who grew up on the farm are well-adjusted and happy. Their sister has had a hard time adjusting. Boys can measure themselves against the projects they undertake. Girls define themselves more in terms of what others think of them than in terms of what they achieve on their own. Generally. It's more a 60-40 thing than a 100-0 thing, but it's significant.
Girls AND boys still want/need playmates from OUTside the family. But I think girls need it, more, generally speaking, and parents going for the rural lifestyle need to go out of their way to provide some socialization beyond the 4 walls of the home. But not too far out of their way. This is the function that festivals and fairs used to serve, or just having a healthy village to visit, nearby. It takes an American "frontiersman" attitude to get those villages back up and running, though, which would be hard on the kids, and even if done perfectly, the kids will still yearn for all the wonderful things that books, movies and Internet tell them are going on in the more populated areas.
The older I get, the more I despise the cities and the deluded world view that is allowed to persist over many generations, because they are divorced from nature and the actual necessities of life.
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