[ExI] Summer weather and COVID-19

[William Flynn Wallace]

 are there those among us who want to live where it is nearly impossible to
escape the constant presence of humanity ? spike

Well, we know that you are an introvert,like me, though probably not as
extreme as me.  I lived in a dorm in college, but there was little of
people running in and out of my room, which would have made me move off
campus.  Extroverts would love that - the more the merrier to keep from
being bored by studying.  We introverts just don't like hubbub.  MY ideal
place:  I had it once and should have never left it:  seven acres on a
creek with the nearest neighbor half a mile away.  I owned the road.
Beautiful little creek running over rocks, plenty of trees, two miles from
the college.  Had two huge gardens.  Could have been a nudist.  Did
sunbathe some.  Which reminds my of the novel (MASH or another book by that
author) in which the landowner made a deal with airplane pilots  to fly
over his property while he and a lovely were nude, made love, etc.

I don't hate being around people but I can't stand much of it.  Now if
being in crowds makes you afraid, then send me $500 and I can cure you of
that much more cheaply than going to a psychiatrist who will only prescribe
some drug you won't like to take.

For most of the day my wife is at one end of the house and I am at another
and we like it that way.

bill w

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 3:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 23, 2020 1:04 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Summer weather and COVID-19
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> Well, you wanted cheap.  Living in a basement is not anyone's idea of a
> white picket fence and a dog.  But you are close to city parks and other
> entertainments, which you are not in the suburbs or further out where the
> lower classes live because of the high cost of living closer.
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> You are talking about the upper crust, eh?  Forty acres and a mule were
> the dream once.  Now it's half an acre and a miniature donkey. (or, in the
> paper today, living in a house with 60 dogs, four goats, 7 cats, 15 birds,
> and a skunk, and more animals outside - arrested for cruelty - she had
> spayed or neutered all of them to her credit, but the skunk probably made
> the smell of four goats rather tolerable by overwhelming the other odors -
> talk about mucking out...).
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> Your ideas sound good to me, but what do I know?
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> bill w
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> Hi BillW,
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> After I began really thinking about this problem, it occurred to me that I
> am not qualified: I don’t know enough about metropolitan life and I don’t
> know enough about the kind of people who choose to live there.  A good
> friend lives in and raised his two daughters in the suburbs (Sunnyvale) and
> works in one of the towers in downtown SF, so my thinking might be overly
> influenced by his style.  What I have under-considered is the kind of
> people you describe: they like (or accept) living in close enough proximity
> that I would be completely losing my mind trying to escape.
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> Perhaps someone here knows a lot better than I do.  Please help me
> understand: are there those among us who want to live where it is nearly
> impossible to escape the constant presence of humanity?
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> spike
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