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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 May 2020

      people like to say that "life in the country moves at a slower pace" well, wake up call: so does life in Mexico and Kenya ...and there's a reason people try to flee from those places

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 May 2020

      2/ city life: call a contractor, he tells you he'll be there in 3 days, in 3 days he shows up with an assistant, parts and tools country life: call a contractor, he talks in circles, says he needs an assistant, asks you to call him back after you've found one for him

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 May 2020

      3/ country life: call a guy, make an appointment for him to show up in 3 days, call him again 5 days later, hear him say "oh, it's good you called - I almost forgot!" ("almost" ?)

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 May 2020

      4/ country life: call a contractor, tell him what brand and color of paint he needs to bring with him ; he says "ok, great, you get that and I'll be there sometime next week"

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 May 2020

      5/ country life: call a contractor, have him say "I'll be out with the excavator next week" call 2 weeks later "oh, yeah, next week" call 2 weeks later "oh, yeah, next week" call 2 weeks later "oh, yeah, next week" call 2 weeks later "maybe you should find someone else"

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 May 2020

      6/ red tribe people: "the city is full of bug men and all REAL production happens in the country" me: hmmm

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 May 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Todd Barrett

      7/ strongly suspect so ; I think @ElamBend , who grew up in the boonies, IIRC, may have been the first to suggest this theory to me if you can maintain a schedule 4 weeks out, why drive a dumptruck in farm country when you can earn 3x in the burbs?https://twitter.com/thepiclord/status/1261302780595253250 …

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      Wonder if this is due in part to selection effects. All the go-getters probably left for places with more opportunity, leaving the ones who simply aren't self-motivated. Or just the feedback loop of everyone waiting for everyone else to move first.
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        2. nzc‏ @ngvrnd 15 May 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @ElamBend

          i watched this happen in the small town i grew up in. there were competent business people when i was a little kid. vibrant main street shops and such. by the time i went to college they’d all retired and their kids moved to cities... 🤷🏻‍♂️

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        3. Elam Bend‏ @ElamBend 15 May 2020
          Replying to @ngvrnd @MorlockP

          One of the best carpenter’s I knew growing up moved from my rural area to a booming vacation are of the state because he could get paid more (and more steadily) for his skills.

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        1. Matt S "therapeutic lalochezia advocate" Trout‏ @shadowcat_mst 15 May 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @ElamBend

          I grew up in an area that was mostly full of post-industrial structural unemployment. With one exception, who stuck around because he was raised by a single mother and felt it would've been wrong to leave her on her own, everybody with any get up and go got up and went.

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        2. The Bicoloured-Python-Rock-Snake‏ @pythonrocksnake 15 May 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @ElamBend

          This implies that the (very real) issues you highlight were less bad in the past, and could be improved. My question is, how many folks with citified expectations do you need in a given area to start incentivizing higher performance?

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        3. The Bicoloured-Python-Rock-Snake‏ @pythonrocksnake 15 May 2020
          Replying to @pythonrocksnake @MorlockP @ElamBend

          Of course, there will always be lower competition in lower-density places. So higher expectations will only go so far in a place where there's only a handful of potential bidders on any job.

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        1. Daniel Humphreys‏ @NerdKing52 15 May 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @ElamBend

          I wonder how the experience shifts when you’ve been entrenched in an area for a generation or two. I’ve had similar experiences to what you describe. I’ve also had my wife’s cousin call a guy and have a drywall guy show up the next day. Associations matter in the boonies.

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        1. Big Gratitude FTW‏ @BigJohn2310 15 May 2020
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          Dude, you live in noWeare

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