Urban vs. Rural; What's to be done?

[Martin Hash]

Uhhh, I guess “quality of life” is in the eye of the beholder. Anybody who has lived in California, Florida or Hawaii can attest that the weather sucks everywhere else, and weather is probably second after Rule of Law.

[Speaker to Animals]

Variation matters.

[Haumana]

This kinda fits here.

California finishes LAST in quality of life.
http://www.businessinsider.com/californ ... ife-2018-3

Not sure I can agree with their metrics. Hawaii comes in 36? Ever hear someone say how much it sucks to live in Hawaii? Mississippi comes in at 6?

Color me skeptical.

Sounds like you have never been to Waianae. There are people who are dying to get off these rocks.

[Speaker to Animals]

Glass didn't describe a great place to live if you are white. He had some moderate health issue and could not get to see a doctor because all appointments were privileged to nonwhites.

[PartyOf5]

What's this? A bunch of people arguing my facts armed with nothing but feelz?

It's almost as if the facts could be reasonably debated and not taken as gospel. You mean things like quality of life and what is rural are debatable? Blashphemy! I have data that is indisputable!

[Fife]

From Disruption to Dystopia: Silicon Valley Envisions the City of the Future
The unaffordable Bay Area, Google’s new neighborhood ‘built from the internet up,’ and China’s police state each offer glimpses of what the tech giants plan to sell the rest of us.

The tech oligarchs who already dominate our culture and commerce, manipulate our moods, and shape the behaviors of our children while accumulating capital at a rate unprecedented in at least a century want to fashion our urban future in a way that dramatically extends the reach of the surveillance state already evident in airports and on our phones.

Redesigning cities has become all the rage in the tech world, with Google parent company Alphabet leading the race to build a new city of its own and companies like Y Combinator, Lyft, Cisco, and Panasonic all vying to design the so-called smart city.

. . .

What is occurring in Silicon Valley, being proposed in Toronto, and now implemented in China all points toward efforts by tech companies and governments to create new dense and data-driven cities that shape what the British academic David Lyon calls a “surveillance society,” where all of our data is shared with the governments and companies that use it to control us (PDF). In many ways these “cities” will be the opposite of the real thing, driven by a technological culture that, as David Byrne has suggested, substitutes spontaneous human interaction—the glory of the traditional city—with machine-driven interfaces.

I'm heading to the lake, kids.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

ned moar metrics 4 data driven happiness plez

[Speaker to Animals]

ned moar metrics 4 data driven happiness plez

Maximal escort service coverage.
Percentage of people within walking distance of a good pub.

[SuburbanFarmer]

This kinda fits here.

California finishes LAST in quality of life.
http://www.businessinsider.com/californ ... ife-2018-3

Not sure I can agree with their metrics. Hawaii comes in 36? Ever hear someone say how much it sucks to live in Hawaii? Mississippi comes in at 6?

Color me skeptical.

Sounds like you have never been to Waianae. There are people who are dying to get off these rocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waianae,_Hawaii

Homeless camp
Hawaii's largest homeless camp, called Pu’uhonua o Waianae, is located here. It covers an area of about 20 acres adjacent to the boat harbor.[7] Tents and pallets are gradually being replaced by modular housing units

That's the sum total of my knowledge about it. What's special about Waianae? Why is the camp there, and what would be different for those people anywhere else?

[Haumana]

Ever hear someone say how much it sucks to live in Hawaii?

Sounds like you have never been to Waianae. There are people who are dying to get off these rocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waianae,_Hawaii

Homeless camp
Hawaii's largest homeless camp, called Pu’uhonua o Waianae, is located here. It covers an area of about 20 acres adjacent to the boat harbor.[7] Tents and pallets are gradually being replaced by modular housing units

That's the sum total of my knowledge about it. What's special about Waianae? Why is the camp there, and what would be different for those people anywhere else?[/quote]

Context is everything. Point being there are plenty who can say how much it sucks to live in Hawaii.

As to the special traits of Waianae, they are on the dry side of the island with very little opportunity there? Haoles are only welcomed in after they run the gauntlet.