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To: John Vosilla who wrote (131983)	3/12/2017 12:16:20 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 217576

You're obviously not a city person. One of the punishments the Czars used to hand out to educated people was internal exile, where you were given the job of being administrator of a small provincial town, where you'd most often be the only person in town who could read and write or speak a foreign language like French. So your social life would be extremely limited. I suppose that must sound like paradise to you. After attending a student festival with his friend Nikolay Ogarev where songs very uncomplimentary to the Czar were sung, my Great-great-great-Grandfather and Ogarev were arrested and sentenced to internal exile in Vyatka, today known today as Kirov. Today it's only a 13 hour drive from Moscow, but in 1835 it was a 4 day trip - if the roads were not muddy and impassable, which they were most of the year - and of course no railway. He tolerated the provincial lifestyle in the beautiful countryside as the town administrator until 1837 when the Czar's son came to this town and intervened with his Father allowing the two to move to Vladimir a more reasonable one day trip to Moscow. Although Vladimir better than Vyatka, they all married that same year in order to obtain passports and left for Paris, then London, Nice, Milan, Lausanne and finally years later Paris again where he died. Having grown up in a very rural suburb myself where a bicycle trip could only take us to a redwood forest or pear and walnut orchards, or a very small town with one theater, a move to a city where everything is available all the time seems entirely sensible to me. Perhaps it's different if you grew up in a city? I like people and I like seeing them in great numbers. I've been to a lot of cities around the world, but the many not-city areas I've been to all tend to seem very similar, even though they may be 10,000 miles different from the other - this is like rural Greece, this is like rural California etc.

To: John Vosilla who wrote (131983)	3/12/2017 4:47:55 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217576

John, I have 4 unscientific answers for you. 1. If the coastal cities are heavily populated there is also a lot of tax revenue concentrated over a small area, the high density of the population per square mile generates a lot of problems therefore those cities are quicker to implement various aspects what is generally called "Smart Cities" to solve problems arising from population density problems and give the impression of higher quality of life. Why should a small hamlet in a beautiful setting in Riverton Wyoming need all the bells and whistle of NYC? 2. Usually densely populated area has also a big pool of professional talent, which is sought after by big corporations, and therefore they are usually setting their headquarters in those densely populated cities 3. Humans are social creatures, very curious (just see a congress of baboons) and like to stick their nose where it does not belong otherwise called gossip and intrigue. With the big cities and corporation comes the gossip intrigue and all the other ills of social behavior where on earth can you find a better place to practice those anti social behaviors? Except in a well kept restaurant that his chef knows how to transform the restaurant in a symbol of status, and where all kind of trolls want to be seen spending time there, with who and who. 4. and the last one in your efforts to find a theoretical "best" mate to marry, the densely populated cities offers you so many choice that your head is spinning, and your animal instincts thrives you to chose the best mate in your imagination that you think would bring to life your best of offspring's. ... which is a total BS based on the number of unhappy couples and failed kids sold to drugs, which rarely would happen in a place like Riverton Wyoming just as an example. Of course this makes very little sense based on the high percentage of divorces, firings from your dream job, high shelter prices, and all the other inconveniences but as it is people are very average and not exactly too smart.