The plan is to turn us into renters and serfs.
Nothing, NOTHING, would drive me to move to the cities...
Where you (they) won’t need to drive an infernal combustion engine vehicle. Or any vehicle. Almost sounds like it’s part of some plan huh?
No thanks. I prefer walking in cow and horse dung than homeless human dung. The ‘RATS can have that honor and privilege.
Government claims of “controlling inflation” are like wolf claims to cut down on their sheep diet.
In their wet dream
Instead of indulging in wishful thinking NPR might instead focus on the obvious threats caused to those living in urban areas when government policies cause economic dislocation in regions providing the nation’s food.
The Reset is working. Billionaires are buying up land like it’s going out of style and people are moving away from the rural areas. Yep, the plan is definitely in motion.
No way am I going to live in a Democrat-run sh*t-hole, which is what the majority of cities are, regardless of whether the state is red.
Memphis is a prime example, with Nashville quickly becoming the same.
The worst possible decision a person could make is move to the cities.
But consider the source of this propaganda: NPR.
‘Nuff said.
NPR is peddling this garbage from a bullspit study in a desperate attempt to pretend that Jao Bai-din isn't failing miserably and that Democrat cities have any future.
There’s going to be a bit of pain for everybody during the “transition” to a Glorious Green Future! Everybody needs to stop complaining and just embrace your new, lower-quality lifestyle. Be Happy! I hear the new Bug Steak is really delicious.
Keep messing with the food producers and find out what happens. Food doesn’t come from cities.
Rural America is the source of our food production and small towns support the farmers who produce our food. If there is a migration from these rural areas it cannot help but lower food production. Perhaps the Marxists who run the Biden Administration will force food production into government run collective farms. Those worked so well in Russia and other Communist countries.
Lol - this is nonsense. In rural areas I can buy meat, veggies and dairy straight from the source. Or better yet barter for it. In the cities you are stuck with what’s on the shelf and pay with your inflated dollars.
This is utter BS. People are leaving cities, skipping the near suburbs and going to smaller towns miles away from the inner city.
Schools, schools, schools. People need good schools for their kids. Few good schools can be found in cities.
Yes there are wealthy areas in most cities where people have $25,000+ each year to send their kids to private schools. If you have three kids that’s like buying a Mercedes each year then giving it away to some lucky person at the end of May.
Most people cannot pony up that kind of cash each year for every child they have...that’s roughly what out-of-state tuition is for most state universities in the mid-west and south. That’s a lot of gas money.
No, we don’t want your big, Democrat-run cities. Dream on “expert”.
Rent is crippling in the cities. I can’t believe how bad it is.
I can’t quite put it into words, but I see this as a sort of echo of the old Enclosure movement in England. People lived in villages, and shared common land for the benefit of their local community. Then things changed and the land was increasingly bought up by great landowners. Soon after, industrialization starts up, life in rural communities isn’t good at all, people have no choice but to move to cities and work in dangerous factories.
People can see that as “progress” from living in a 16th century village to a modern industrialized nation, but what I see happening right now seems vaguely similar and not at all good.
Clearly, the author of this screed knows nothing about which he speaks. Neither does that twerp Iowa State University Professor. The VERY LAST PLACE you want to be in the end times of government incompetence and pathetic attempts to appear to correct their screwups, is in a big city with all the rest of the soon-to-be recession zombies. Cities will be the first to go because they are AT BEST only 2-4 weeks away from supply/sustenance disaster until all hell breaks loose.