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The United States is now too populated for one whole town to go under...

posted 10 years ago by ilovejuliandfefe
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Back then in the eighties, I guess it was possible to imagine that a town could just become isolated like it did. But come on, nowadays, people wouldn't allow it. If there is a space, people will jump on it and take it as their own. Kind of sucks in a way how the world is so overpopulated now that we can't even breathe without our next door neighbors knowing that we did it.

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[–] ElectricWarlock 10 years ago

I don't know, I've been in some pretty small towns where all you can see for miles are fields of wheat/corn. It's a shame there aren't more places like that, though. People try to ruin everywhere with buildings, roads, cars, etc. I love small, rural towns and hate to see them be ruined by people.

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[–] davannacarter 10 years ago

These small, rural towns are in the Midwest like the one in this movie are dying. Google something like "midwest depopulating" or "midwest dying" or something similar and you'll see lots of reports how rural towns in the midwest are dying. Why are they dying? The jobs are not there. You might love these small towns if you're an introverted shut-in with no social life. But if you're a person who wants a decent job, you'll end up feeling miserable there.

[–] ElectricWarlock 10 years ago

You might love these small towns if you're an introverted shut-in with no social life.

That is actually a VERY accurate description of me and I'm not joking either. How did you know?

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[–] marc_719 10 years ago

Hahaha

[–] PreachCaleb 9 years ago

People try to ruin everywhere with buildings,

Yes. How dare they build places to live and work.

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[–] ElectricWarlock 9 years ago

How dare they destroy wildlife. Building some jobs and homes are fine but not every place needs to be a big city. A little isolation and solitude never hurt anybody.

[–] PreachCaleb 9 years ago

Building some jobs and homes are fine but not every place needs to be a big city.

It does if there are a lot of people moving in.

A little isolation and solitude never hurt anybody.

Didn't the unabomber live in isolation and solitude?

Can't stop the signal.

[–] ElectricWarlock 9 years ago

So everyone who prefers quiet and isolation is a bomber? You strike me as one of those city people who thinks everyone in the country is either an ignorant hillbilly or serial killer like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. There can be both countries AND cities, you know. They can coexist. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

[–] PreachCaleb 9 years ago

So everyone who prefers quiet and isolation is a bomber?

Not at all. I'm just disproving your "A little isolation and solitude never hurt anybody."

You strike me as one of those city people who thinks everyone in the country is either an ignorant hillbilly or serial killer like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Neither.

They can coexist.

That's my point.

Can't stop the signal.

[–] aasoloway 10 years ago

Drive across the country and see if your opinion stays the same.

[–] venem123 10 years ago

Detroit

[–] detroitmarauder22 10 years ago

Yeah, not quite. There's still 700k in the city and a few million in the immediate surrounding cities.

[–] Oblio-N-Arrow 10 years ago

Check out Nevada. Plenty of isolated towns that are drying up. Carlin will be a ghost town in 10-20 years.

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[–] robbytara 9 years ago

Have you been to Detroit lately? It's pretty isolated and is a live action horror movie, every day.

[–] Patrilot 9 years ago

As someone who lives in Nevada, I can tell you there are tiny town, rural towns all over the place. Hell, just outside of Vegas is Goodsprings, has like 2 businesses, one school.. And that's about it. Also, take a drive through Oklahoma. You'll see things a LOT differently.

[–] Slimanes 8 years ago

The world is NOT overpopulated, not by any stretch of the imagination. Stop buying into propaganda.

[–] Kawada_Kira 8 years ago

You're exaggerating. A very large portion of the US population lives in a relatively small proportion of the country. Huge parts of the country are still quite rural and remote. I live in one of them. Not to the extent of the town in this movie, but definitely off the beaten path.

Even smaller and more densely-populated countries, like Japan for example, still have their empty areas. Young people migrate out of small-town rural areas to cities in search of work, and little towns are dying out. I was just reading an article recently about a little town in Japan where this old woman makes these scarecrows and puts them around in public places to remind herself of when people used to live around there. It was kinda sad really. If that can happen in Japan, it can certainly happen in the US which is so many times larger.

There are a lot of people in the world, but in large part they're concentrated in particular areas.