Most of them have seen it from just 5 miles away (5 miles up).
These are people who thrive in a human constructed 'reality'. I don't begrudge them that, but to look down on those who thrive in an environment with constraints imposed by nature more than man because we do not thrive in their environment (or choose to thrive in this one) is to underestimate the abilities of those who live here.
The urbanites just can imagine how anyone can survive without the “conveniences” of the city. Worse yet, they can’t even imagine that someone would want to. If we don’t want the same as they do its because there is something wrong with us.
I’ve never been to a Starbucks or Tim Hortons. In my 50 years I’ve been on a bus once and a train once and have never been on a plane. I’ve never lived with city water, a municipal trash service or electricity provider. Those urban services are tax creators that I can’t control.
Out here, I can control my costs through choices and conservation on my own. I can choose from a half dozen different trash pick up services that all have a half dozen different service packages. I don’t have a water meter and I don’t have a base rate to pay for water. I can use as much or as little water as I choose because I pay for the electricuty to pump it.
I do live in a “food desert” but that’s fine too. I grow or buy 75% of my vegetables at the farm down the road. I make a trip to the outskirts of town about once a month and buy meat, sugar, salt etc.