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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (15881)	1/20/1998 11:39:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<I do see one eye-opening trend though: those who can pay for lotsa healthcare tend to have a higher survival rate for the "marginals' who'd not make it in an inner city or rural environment. This is a very young trend and even harder to pin down than, say one of this thread's champion whipping boys, Global Warming.> What do you mean by 'rural environment', Alex? My understanding of migration patterns in the United States, at least (and confirmed, anecdotally speaking, by my visits to the bucolic countryside)is that the slower pace of life in rural areas allows people who are not as intellectual or competitive to survive in surroundings that suit their temperments. People who like thrive on dog-eat-dog lifestyles tend to migrate to cities. Of course, because of the nascent trend towards telecommuting, all these assumptions are changing. And just to throw another spanner in the works, in San Francisco we have suburban empty-nesters who are bored with yardwork and want the vibrant, twenty-four hour bustle of city life around them, selling their ranch houses and moving back into very crowded places like North Beach and buying condominiums. Hey, can't we have healthcare nightmares AND global warming as whipping boys on this thread? <<) ; ^ )