In the American desert west you occasionally come across little pockets of mobile homes in the middle of absolutely nowhere, and I always want to know their stories. One irony of poverty in the US is that mobile homes aren't. The people who can move live in RVs.
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Two places like this that particularly struck me are Atomic City, Idaho, and the stretch of US 56/412 in the Oklahoma panhandle where every 15 miles there's a wheat silo, two dozen derelict mobile homes, and sometimes a closed school. And of course anywhere in Nevada
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A long time ago I wrote about the Norwegian approach to this, which is basically "fuck it, we're Norway, and if people choose to live remotely then by God they're getting a Norwegian standard of living anyway." That approach has grown on me since. https://idlewords.com/2010/07/mission_burfjord.htm …
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@aodespair's approach, which (if I understand him right) is "fuck it, we're an almost entirely urban country now, let's fix the cities". But the third-world poverty in large sections of the rural US is unfortunately closely tied to our system of misgovernmentShow this thread
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They really should have made sure the name communicated the risks better
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"What tipped you off? Something about the name, maybe?"
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This reads like a Norm Macdonald bit
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Furnace Creek sounds like a perfectly fine place to live in.
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I mean, there's water, right? It says so in the name!
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