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.
I lived in rural Illinois where you might be able to barter for Denton corn to make corn meal, but nothing else because dent corn was the only thing grown for miles and miles and miles. No fruit stands, no victory gardens, just miles of corn with hardly an occupied farmhouse in sight. Not like southern Illinois or Florida where farm stands are everywhere.
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.
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Yep. And I have never HAD to drive more than 8 miles to a grocery store in 50 years of living rural. Walmart is 25 miles, but I don’t shop there much. My regional grocery chain buys a lot locally and keeps the prices as low as is possible. Local gasoline is $4.04 for regular. Our car gets 30+ miles/gallon.
I also have an ebike, 7 miles presently to the store on side roads that are well-maintained, as is the highway, in 20 minutes.
For everything else, there is still delivery.
We have a conservative County Board. They consolidated to save costs 2 years ago and lowered the mil rate. No crime outside of some DUIs and a few kids breaking into summer homes that got caught and prosecuted. Sheriff seems based, so far. People open carry in the nearest towns. The county turned down the Madison wokesters when they proposed a youth summer retreat and requested grants (of course).
My propane cost $2/gallon for a summer fill and will last thru January. I have alternative methods of heat, cooking, and electric. I have storage food.
Actually, my immediate neighbors to the East may well decide to move up permanently once the husband retires in a couple years....or sooner. They are conservative and informed, so they are weighing options. They say it’s getting worse in the cities.
I have managed well for over 50 years out of the cities and from age 4-age 11 in my youth. Cities literally stink and my neighbor’s goats are not even detectable. When the row crops at the end of the road were fertilized with manure a year ago, the trucks were annoying for a few days, but there was no increased odor.
It’s quiet and peaceful and we lack for nothing.