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Food wise maybe.

But do you think your medicine, qualified doctors, medical equipment, internet, computers you use, movies and tv series you watch, trucks you drive and tons of other things besides grow on trees?

(Not to mention farming subsidies)



Cities really, truly, do not have a monopoly on the production of those things.


Cities really, truly, have historically predominantly invented, produced and designed those things (including designing and paying for the factories seemingly in the country).

Not many medicine schools, pharma corps, research labs, car manufactures, tech companies, tv and movie studios, etc operating out of rural Idaho, or South Dakota, or Alabama, or what have you...


You do understand that cities build up around industry, right?


Historically speaking, they generally do. See forex Jane Jacobs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs#The_Economy_of_Cit...


Those things are all related to quality of life vs. life itself.




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