undefined | Better HN

0 pointsClubber3y ago0 comments

>Small towns have grocery stores and hospitals...

Yes, but 4-40 acres gets a lot cheaper the further you go from the town. My point was as he was looking and pricing, make sure you are 30 minutes away from a grocery store or hospital. You can always grow a garden and hunt if you so desire, but if you break your leg or something, an hour is a long drive to get it fixed.

>Land outside a medium city is a suburb, not rural.

Depends on the city.

0 comments

hunterb1233y ago

I guess my point was you don't need to drive to a "medium city" for groceries.

Unless you're in sparser areas like Wyoming, Nevada, West Texas, etc. you're always 30 minutes or so from the nearest town no matter where you live.

If you're looking for 4-40 acres, you're not wanting land out in backcountry, you're wanting land outside a town.

bombcar3y ago

I really wonder about some people, and exactly where they’re finding these areas.

I suspect it’s mainly people near the high desert in the West where you can go 90 miles between gas stations.

I would consider where I am to be the edge of rural and even if I go deeper into it there are still grocery stores and hospitals.

An overlay for Google maps showing the 30 minute boundaries would be nice.

ClubberOP3y ago

Rural hospitals have been shut down quite a bit in the last 20 or so years.

https://sidecarhealth.com/blog/181-rural-hospitals-have-clos...

gamechangr3y ago

Kansas City 2.1 Million people

My brother lives there. There are 20-40k towns 30 min in almost every direction. One is college town called Lawrence, Kansas, which had quite a few startups when Iwent through last summer. Coffee shops full of 20's coding.

sjmm19893y ago

And towns ironically can get as big as a small city. Small in the truest form though, keep in mind.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse