Any time I go to a large city im exhausted by being charged for doing anything. How do people have fun if theyre poor(the neat part, you dont, probably). And to make it worse many of them probably have a 1 bedroom apartment so its not like you can sit in there all day long (at least i cant).
I realize im still spending money by being in my house out of town, but still, at least things I buy are owned by me, and im not paying someone else every time I want to do anything. If I want to stay at home all day I have tons of stuff to occupy my mind without going nuts.
I figure 98% of lemmy users live in big cities so id like to hear this perspective!
Sure, but that’s not what most people who live in the city do. They live in the city because of what living in the city gives them the ability to do.
So the question still stands - What do you do outside of a city for free that you can’t do in a city for free?
Listen to the silence and breather far cleaner air with the subtle hint of the scent of pine trees. Actually see the night sky and all the stars. See wolf and deer tracks in my yard. Watch the pair of eagles nest in my trees. See a family of otters swim by in the lake and hear the call of the loons across the lake in the mornings and evenings. I can, and do, forage the forest right outside my door. I can pick berries and mushrooms in their time and seasons. Or maybe just sit and whittle a stick and drink a cup or two of nice tea.
These are all things I can do for free. How many of those things do you have?
I live on acreage, so I can do the same but with animals in my region. That’s besides the point.
What you’re saying is just….walking, sitting, and looking. You can do that in the city, just at different things.
I have suspicious needles and baggies on the sidewalk, disheveled people hunched over near the dollar store, graffiti covering the entrance to the subway, padlocked meat at the grocery store and BBQ meat smoke coming from makeshift tents behind the grocery store, train tracks lined with tent villages to greet visitors to the city, random yelling and exhaustless cars drifting at 3AM, far off gunshots or fireworks somewhere over there, slowly disintegrating brickwork and cement in my building, people’s trash on the street Monday through Friday.
How many of those free things do you have, Mr Fresh Pine Scented Home? Hmm? I wanna know.