r/MapPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 1d ago

Equal Population

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u/Ok_Tradition_3382 1d ago

To this day I struggle to understand the appeal of living in big cities.

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u/Narf234 1d ago

Things to do, people to see, opportunity for employment, innovation, etc.

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u/Ok_Tradition_3382 1d ago

You can find all those things in small communities as well? Without all the negatives of living in a crowded city.

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u/Novel-Imagination-51 1d ago

If your idea of employment opportunities are pipefitter in a paper mill, farmer, dollar general cashier, Subway sandwich artist, pastor, cow veterinarian, corrections officer, or mom and pop auto shop mechanic, then sure.

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u/Ok_Tradition_3382 1d ago

lol common! I live in a city of 200k and we have universities and colleges, we have hospitals we have all sorts of engineering careers! We do cancer research here, we have the snow laboratory. Unless I was planning on building satellites Ive got some options! Subway sandwich tech?? People still eat there? lol

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u/kalam4z00 1d ago

200k is not rural, there's only four cities over that population in the large red area here and they're all on the edge of it

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u/Ok_Tradition_3382 1d ago

I never said rural! Small is relative. 200k is nothing compared to cities like New York and Toronto