William H. Geiger III wrote:
In <366A26C2.30D6892E@nyu.edu>, on 12/06/98 at 01:40 AM, Michael Hohensee <mah248@nyu.edu> said:
William H. Geiger III wrote:
In <36694C23.B4CB9509@nyu.edu>, on 12/05/98 at 10:07 AM, Michael Hohensee <mah248@nyu.edu> said:
Then we're back to doing it in the open. Less concentrated cities might last a while longer, but not much longer. There's no getting around it, we *need* working sewer systems to have modern cities. Otherwise, the cities die.
And you say this as if it is a bad thing.
Well it is, sorta. I've got the misfortune to live in NYC, as do many many many other people. People who (like me) aren't particularly interested in dying of disease and/or starvation. If the "shit hits the fan", we're in for a serious mess, in any event. :/
It is your choice to live in the cesspool know as NYC. I am originally from Chicago, I got the hell out of there the 1st chance I got and have never looked back.
I've been to Chicago exactly once. I went to the Sears Tower, and with the exception of the lake, *ALL* I could see was city and smog! I will not go back.
Large metropolitan complexes are obsolete and their problems greatly outweigh their benefits. I am a land owner and *like* owning land, I enjoy having grass and trees, streams to fish and swim in, not living in a cage with my neighbors on the other side of a paper thin wall. I have enough land that I could plow it up and do subsistence farming to survive if the collapse ever comes (subsidized with fishing and hunting).
My "cage" is in the suburbs, but I have to agree, it is still a cage. I can't wait to get my own land.
Why anyone would want to live like a rat is beyond me.
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