LadyButterfly she/herDec 21
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Show threadLOGIC💣Dec 21
I’m way to old to be a Millennial, so I obviously can’t directly sympathize, but the ridiculous prices today really trigger the introvert side of me. I have this strong desire to move somewhere that land is still very cheap and become a crazy hermit who lives in a shed or something.
Show threadEcho Dot

Well it’s telling that all of the rich investment banker types always eventually quit and start a hobby farm in the country.

The general feeling seems to be that agriculture was a good idea, but we took things too far with this whole civilisation thing.

Dec 21 at 8:55amWeb
Show threadLOGIC💣Dec 21

You remind me of this Hitchhiker’s quote:

In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Show threadILoveUnionsDec 21
Nah screw that. The issue is not enough cities, and the solution is certainly not further unsustainable sprawl
Show threadAljernonDec 21
Moving onto abandoned agricultural land doesn’t count as sprawl if you don’t subdivide it and start growing food.
Show threadAljernonDec 21
Moving onto abandoned agricultural land doesn’t count as sprawl if you don’t subdivide it and start growing food.
Show threadEcho DotDec 21
A hobby farm isn’t sprawl.
Show threadILoveUnionsDec 21
A hobby farm is absolutely sprawl. I’m not going to go out here and say every farm is sprawl;but if your farm is just for hobby? Yeah absolutely. Though to be fair it really does depend on yields…
Show threadtoddestanDec 21

I suppose it depends a bit. Most of the people who want a hobby farm also want the amenities that big cities offer, so the hobby farms tend to be at the edges of the outer-ring suburbs which could be considered sprawl. There’s also working farms in those sorts of areas, but I’d not call that sprawl since those farms are using the land productively and in most cases were there long before the suburbs started encroaching on them.

A rural hobby farm out in the middle of nowhere I’d be less inclined to call sprawl.

Show thread0x0Dec 21

griculture was a good idea

If mechanized, sure…