

The problem with this is that a lot of these people have been shitting on their neighbors and their entire neighborhoods for decades because they think they are the special snowflake who can survive anything by themselves and don’t need any community.
When those fucks are also broke and they come asking for help a lot of us are going to tell them to get fucked.
Those of us who’ve been building intentional communities and support systems will be a little better off, but we’re going to be wasting a lot of time trying to fight off raiders from the aforementioned group above. thankfully they’ll probably be coming single file because they won’t help each other either.



just as a counterpoint, I live in the forest and it would take a very, very serious problem for me to even consider moving to a small town. nonetheless a city.
we lived in a bunch of different countries and a bunch of different cities over the last 15 years and I intended to never live in another city again.
having the forest friends follow me around as I do morning chores is how life was meant to be. if I could just find a way to stretch that into my whole day I’d be the happiest man on Earth.