The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time

Re:The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time by tomjen3 on Saturday September 03, 2011 @06:52AM (#2957073)

Face to face conversations [http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/0...], bars, theaters, museums, entertainment parks, turist attractions, easy shopping posibilities, etc.

There are many advantages to clustering together that electronics and increased communication simply cannot replace yet (and I doubt it ever will, even video calling feels "phony" somehow).

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Re:The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time by lachlanj on Saturday September 03, 2011 @11:39AM (#2957441)

I'm sorry but I lived an extremely rural town for 10 years with <20k people and all of these thing were available. I'm not convinced these are exclusive to cities.

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Re:The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time by tomjen3 on Saturday September 03, 2011 @05:28PM (#2958155)

Where my grandparents live there is nothing, no school, no shops no bus stop, only a comunity center and a part time church.

20k is a town. 100 people is nothing.

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Re:The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time by strait on Saturday September 03, 2011 @02:24PM (#2957804)

Extremely rural is <500 people. No traffic lights, no Subway sandwiches. Just a country store, 7 churches, and 49 horses.

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