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To: Kirk © who wrote (3407)	9/13/2015 12:45:44 PM
From: dan6	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 26649

Hi Kirk- I live in a rural area, 20 miles from the nearest Walmart. I am shopping more and more on Amazon and am constantly amazed that here in the middle of nowhere, I have access to the same stuff as you city-dwellers, often at the same prices. Bottom line: Without online shopping, I wouldn't have access to a lot of things. The only local retailer I am hurting is the ACE hardware store whose prices are so much higher that it is hard to rationalize paying them. On the the hand, I recently went shopping for an expensive piano keyboard and ending up buying it locally (50 miles away) at a small-town music store for a better price than I could get online! In the old days, you had to pay full retail for everything in small towns. This apparently is changing. All in all, I think online shopping a change in the right direction though it will be a real challenge for local communities to find ways of being economically viable. The big picture seems to be that most communities are simply bedroom communities existing without an economic base. We do not have viable communities anymore as most of us live in dispersed hotels holed up in our homes and apartments. To me the important question is how to build viable communities where people know and care about one another... d6

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