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Urban air problems are many, so it's better to not live in an Urb
For your health!
I live on the bleeding edge of a small town. This is reason #476 why I'll never live in a city again.
Yep, it's great to have room to breathe and do what you want, and still have a reasonable access to basic stuff nearby like groceries, general supplies. In the old days, living outside the city meant that it was hard to get anything that's not common, boring, or basic. You'd have to drive to a Big City to get any kind of unusual stuff like skateboards or guitars. But we have online shopping now and you can get anything you want shipped to your doorstep, so I have no need for the city.
working to get food is also good for my health so i'll keep living in the urb for the foreseeable future
"Jobs only exist in big cities" because no one else outside of cities is able to make a living... all areas other than cities must therefore be uninhabited
you know what happens when more people live together in one place and there are enough jobs for all the people living there? it becomes a city (it doesn't need to be big, it only needs a lot of cars)
For real though I seriously wonder.
Outside of the bigger cities I've lived it's like, people are working fast food or gas stations and other service labor or like, really niche stuff like oil industry (yuck), or some other industrial or farming occupations.
I know lots of people live in rural areas, dunno how many commute or how far, and I always was just like "Okay but what does everybody do?!"
I wouldn't mind living somewhere less dense-urban, but geeze, I feel like it'd be even harder to find a fit than in the city, and it feels like it'd be a trap where you couldn't make enough to move away.
I'd love to be wrong, assuming we're not talking about the top 10% of programmers that have a lucrative telecommute contract via starlink or some crap lol.
Like stuff an average person is capable of without requiring a ridiculous amount of luck or extremely niche in-demand education.
Generally people commute to jobs within a reasonable distance, from where they live if they can't find a nearby job that's good enough.
For example if you lived in the area of Edinburg, Illinois (population about 1000) you would have the jobs listed here available within 35 miles: https://www.indeed.com/l-edinburg,-il-jobs.html
In a semi-rural area like that, it's only going to take you about 30 minutes to drive 30 miles on highways. It's not like driving through 30 miles of city. It's common for rural folks to have a 30 minute to 1 hour daily commute to work.
Remote work is really what's best though.