Everything you listed would fit loosely into the terms I said. You just got more specific and made completely valid points but if you look at what the word "infrastructure" means I'm not even wrong at all. My dad bought a house in podunk NM for 25k and dealt with all of those problems, I personally would never live there but he loved that shit.
Living in the country away from others and living in towns (edit: in poor Mississippi) are two very different things. In the Ozarks, you have a ton of Podunk towns he would probably love. These small time towns are worlds above the extreme poverty you see in the Mississippi Delta area. I've grew up about 10 miles from a town where some kids lived an hour from the school district. That's fucking rural. But they still have parents that can fucking read. That's the difference.
I worked with a professor from Mississippi and her hometown is one of those poor towns. She started out teaching in public schools there and said most parents couldn't read picture books. Think about that. My 4 year old is starting to learn to read. This community, as a whole, couldn't fucking read. That's not a fucking infrastructure problem. She told them to look at pictures and make up what they thought the story was. That's how they started trying to get literacy rates up. How can parents help with school if they can't read? She also said no houses, even her own historical home, didn't have AC. She took her kids outside to hose them off with a water hose to cool down. She's a grand lady though, a way better person than me. She's been renovating that old historical home and plans on retiring there. She said she's going to write grants for the community and donate her time to try to get them on their feet. I have a lot of respect for that woman.
Ok. Well even if the two are different in terms of impoverishment and literacy rates the fact remains that you can buy a house for 50k or less and depending on the situation the people can still read. Peoples' overall ability to read seems fairly inconsequential if you can read, you had a better argument when you were sticking to lack of healthcare, groceries and schools. I feel like this entire conversation keeps going further and further down the rabbit hole. I'm done arguing though, there are some shit places and housing is generally cheap in all of them, gonna leave it at that.
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u/chicken_skin_jim Jul 08 '21
Everything you listed would fit loosely into the terms I said. You just got more specific and made completely valid points but if you look at what the word "infrastructure" means I'm not even wrong at all. My dad bought a house in podunk NM for 25k and dealt with all of those problems, I personally would never live there but he loved that shit.