Choosing? If I'm an adult I can choose, but not when I'm a child which just happens to be hit with the bad luck of being born somewhere in the world. You can't choose where you get born to this world.
Electricity and running water made it after all that time to have a pretty wide spread. But fast internet connection - we live in capitalism, and capitalism doesn't understand providing something as offering services to the common people, it understands it as something to make money with. Do they go into areas for very few people to provide if it doesn't drop profit? I think you know the answer. As for my country, who do you guess who's to blame for the spread of the of the other services? It was communism 'cause communism regarded supply as the most impotant factor of a functioning society. But that only I can say as far for East Germany. If all areas in Europe live with the same circumstances - say, I'd put a big question mark behind it. And even here, I wouldn't vouch for the really solitude countryside with pretty vew people and more animals than people around you, that in rural areas with these characteristics even both electricity and running water made it everywhere. At least the back of my head says "wait, water supply - I think I've seen this also, people working with a good old pump in the backyard". Only I don't know if that's a self-chosen thing if that's the case, or if it is a result because there the GDR ended and in Western times nobody connects a village of 100 people or to the water supply system if they have to dig up the earth and first lay pipes. Another thing I have also heard about is when the street lights get turned off at pretty late hours in smaller villagers. Why? To save money. Yes, villages in fucking supposedly rich Germany switching off street lights at night hours because they need to save money... And, talking about streets, some rural areas still have to live with the road made of small boulders that they had to live with over the past decades. Or this stupid nonsense they did - doing a tarred road, but only one lane; when two cars left and right are to be coming up to meet, one's gotta pull over to let the other one pass by.
There's not much in the rural areas left to do for the youngsters who acquire good education. All who can just leave off to bigger cities, to the West, especially to West Germany or other areas. They even get told to better do so, if you happen to be in an area where there is no big future for you to grab. If you don't state yourself that you stay - and live with a little lesser money -, which is not the majority, then it's nobody except for those who build a house there ages ago who stay. Often enough these are the elders who lived there for decades and are adapted to the lifestyle. Enough people these days also prefer a living without big physical work or getting dirty. Taking and consuming, and if they come back to the nature, then it's just some hipster thing and they hold certain imaginations what the it looks like and be disappointed by the reality they find.
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Date: 29 June 2017 06:58 am (UTC)Electricity and running water made it after all that time to have a pretty wide spread. But fast internet connection - we live in capitalism, and capitalism doesn't understand providing something as offering services to the common people, it understands it as something to make money with. Do they go into areas for very few people to provide if it doesn't drop profit? I think you know the answer.
As for my country, who do you guess who's to blame for the spread of the of the other services? It was communism 'cause communism regarded supply as the most impotant factor of a functioning society.
But that only I can say as far for East Germany.
If all areas in Europe live with the same circumstances - say, I'd put a big question mark behind it.
And even here, I wouldn't vouch for the really solitude countryside with pretty vew people and more animals than people around you, that in rural areas with these characteristics even both electricity and running water made it everywhere.
At least the back of my head says "wait, water supply - I think I've seen this also, people working with a good old pump in the backyard". Only I don't know if that's a self-chosen thing if that's the case, or if it is a result because there the GDR ended and in Western times nobody connects a village of 100 people or to the water supply system if they have to dig up the earth and first lay pipes.
Another thing I have also heard about is when the street lights get turned off at pretty late hours in smaller villagers. Why? To save money. Yes, villages in fucking supposedly rich Germany switching off street lights at night hours because they need to save money...
And, talking about streets, some rural areas still have to live with the road made of small boulders that they had to live with over the past decades.
Or this stupid nonsense they did - doing a tarred road, but only one lane; when two cars left and right are to be coming up to meet, one's gotta pull over to let the other one pass by.
There's not much in the rural areas left to do for the youngsters who acquire good education. All who can just leave off to bigger cities, to the West, especially to West Germany or other areas. They even get told to better do so, if you happen to be in an area where there is no big future for you to grab.
If you don't state yourself that you stay - and live with a little lesser money -, which is not the majority, then it's nobody except for those who build a house there ages ago who stay.
Often enough these are the elders who lived there for decades and are adapted to the lifestyle. Enough people these days also prefer a living without big physical work or getting dirty. Taking and consuming, and if they come back to the nature, then it's just some hipster thing and they hold certain imaginations what the it looks like and be disappointed by the reality they find.