• thedarkfly@feddit.nl
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    17 hours ago

    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
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      17 hours 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.