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Re:Loneliness is stronger when not alone by wenc on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:12AM (#36405163)
Sure. But consider that not everyone is like you. There has been a normalization of nature lovers in our time (mostly correlated with upbringing and environment, but in some cases possibly partly correlated with affluence ironically — most of my nature loving friends like spending money at REI and posting nature photos — if that was my hobby I would too — yet I notice that there’s a kind of mimesis going on where it’s now cool to love nature) and it’s an interesting reversal because in my day the opposite was true in my milieu (in a big city, so self selected population).

I come from survivalist stock where my parents escaped smaller more rural places to make it in the city hence the opposite orientation.

Re:Loneliness is stronger when not alone by moffkalast on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:57AM (#36405980)
These two aren't mutually exclusive tbh, both being in rural areas and cities has its pluses and minuses. Living in some area that's on the edge of a city that lets you have both seems like a good compromise to that. Nature a short walk one way, practicality and connectivity a short walk the other way.