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Those of us in the reality-based community sometimes struggle to understand the world view of the more "eccentric" members of this forum, but perhaps this new study will shed some light:

https://studyfinds.org/living-in-country-mental-health/

I live in a rural area, but if I don't get out and about with some frequency I do go a little stir crazy. A couple of weeks ago the wife and I caught the traveling production of To Kill a Mockingbird with Richard ("John Boy") Thomas as Atticus Finch. The packed house gave the performance a standing ovation, it was a wonderful experience.

Written by somebody in Chicago who sleeps under the bed every night because of all the drive-by shootings in his neighborhood.

If fact, he was probably under the bed when he wrote it.

Yes, rural folks get their heads filled with all sorts of bizarre ideas, like men can't get pregnant and such.

There are so many factors that go into mental health, and so many variations on rural and urban living that it's impossible to control for them all and make any conclusions on rural vs urban.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...9/re-time-for-the-tard-list#Post18223119

No wonder you made the top of the list.

Wasn't John Boy the first closet q u e e r on a TV series? He always acted a little light in the loafers to be part of a backwoods farming family in Appalachia.

Sounds like the key to happiness is living in an apartment in the city, Uber or public transport and grub hub delivery. Where you CAN piss off of your porch, 16 stories above the snap dragons.

That is some impressive virtue signaling. lol I read the book from our library when I was 12 and we had a library in our town of 800 growing up. There has a huge migration out of urban areas by Americans due to onerous taxes, failing dangerous schools, and high crime and a general rot of our culture


Big urban areas are much safer

Mass shootings and other violent crimes only occur in rural areas. Urban dwellers are fine.

Nick

Wasn't the actor who played Grandpa Walton gay, also?

What if one moves to a rural area to get away from the craziness they lived in for years?

IS that a sign of good mental health, or poor?


The schiedt some folks write, and others read, has never failed to amaze me.

remember in the city of Chicago when BLM AND ANTIFA dragged this female police officer in the streets and tried to beat her to death?

And a full fledged card carrying bolshevik

OP belongs in a tenement.

Jeeze. At what point will a cop draw and let loose into the closest members of the mob attacking him if he doesn't do it that situation?

Ever heard of granges? For example? Dances? Churches?Folks that really grew up rural (generational) know that sense of community has been a thing for as long as there’s been people.

A city bitch that bought a spec home in the “rural” housing development is only going to post from a position of ignorance.

9.5 out of 10 Biden voters HATE rural people.

I call horseshit on that article

All the old families around here are pretty tight. Many are kinfolks. New arrivals, with the exception of a very few, with the 4 acre ranchettes can be some goofy bastids!

They might have included Indian reservations and arctic villages in the rural part of the study. If I was trapped in one of those places I would be depressed, anxious, and suicidal myself.