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[–] thedarkfly@feddit.nl -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean, was this the situation before cars? I fail to imagine a person living miles from the next human being without a car.

Cars made rural communities dependant on them. It's not a fatality.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes lmao. My grandparents didn't get a road until like 2010. And that "road" is a dirt road the county grades once a year and is about 1 mile from their house.

Rural America is incredibly rural. I just checked, their county (an unincorporated county at that) has a density of 14 people per square mile.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Guess I'll just spend all the time raising horses then.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah people couldn't live outside dense urban cores before cars. Farming was invented by edsel ford.