Urban Place

If you’re going to be traveling in both urban and rural areas, you need money for food, etc. But random travel- even by foot- is not conducive to occupations, nor is it conducive, in today’s world, to living on whatever is free. Does anyone know how you can live without a place to call home in modern times?
I’m tired of having to think of "exploring" in the abstract.

Rainbow family.
Join a group or go it alone.

Make stuff (jewelery is popular) to sell and trade for necessity. Be willing to do hard work for minimal pay or just for transport.

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Edit: Just thought Id add that my and my wife’s long term plan is fixing our credit so we can get a farm loan. It is a great way to get away from certain aspects of the world.

I’m going to use my Y! 360 blog as a place for me to put a story I’m planning on writing. I will break it up into segments or "episodes". I need ideas and page hits. If I don’t get 50 page hits by the end of this week I might decide to kill the idea. Please help me with detailed story lines in this scenario:

- Modern Day
-Urban setting (Nothing rural or farmlike)
-Action Setup

If you don’t have an idea please just visit my Y!360 profile so I can get hits and while you are there maybe you could comment.

Thanks Y! Answers Community.
There is a link to this question in the "blast" of my Y!360 page which you can easily access through my Y!Answers profile. Please, I really need help with this, it is a big project.
It doesn’t have to be completley in the city. I just want a lot of it to be based in the city. Maybe something about con-artists. Hmmm… Thank you for the ideas you guys. I still need more though.
I like thesqyd’s idea about choosing between work and friends. But, can anyone expand on this a little more for me. Details, details, details.

It seems odd to me that you just want to write a story without knowing what you want to write about. If you want to write, write what you want. If you don’t have an angle to write about, try something else, man. My idea for a story may not be worth writing about to you, and visa versa.
Write what you know and what interests you.

…that are out of touch with most of rural and middle America? They have little to no understanding of the culture and economies of places outside the big cities?

I wish you could have been with me at the last dove shoot we had where a local colleges PETA branch showed up. They were out there with signs and crap, and everyone went "Bird, Bird" and we fired up into the air in their general direction. And a few seconds later all the pellets began falling and they started hauling ass when the pellets started pelting them.

I am writing a paper examining poverty as a function of economic evolution. I am interested in the economic similarities and differences between poor people in rural China and America’s urban poor. Both face great hardships and barriers to advancement. What are some interesting aspects of this story to focus on?

I was inspired to write my paper by a Reuters News investigative series on poverty in places like Youngstown, Ohio.

http://blogs.reuters.com/route-to-recovery/tag/youngstown/

People in poverty in rural China can live off of subsistence farming and fishing. People in the urban areas of the US who are poor must rely on charity, a small amount of government help and often, to crime.

America simply cannot keep allowing hordes of people to move into our country.

Already there is a fight between the states, and our urban and rural communities, over our water supply. Already human population is taking up land that our wildlife have a right to and killing the animals that have no more places to move.

To say, "Save open space," and not say "Stop immigration," is ridiculous to say the least.

This isn’t just aimed at the Hispanics who are sneaking across our southern border by the thousands (often obtaining false identification papers), but all immigration. However, it is high time for Mexicans to start having Mexican dreams instead of coming up here and turning American dreams into nightmares.
Mexico guards its southern border but allows illegal aliens (the proper terminology, not undocumented workers) out by the thousands. President Vicente Fox seems to think that America should open our southern border and allow his charges to become America’s responsibility.

They are for me. Why? Because I see a hatred that has nothing to do with anything I ever did. I see them demanding "their" rights but no others. I see "kill the Gringo", I see no respect for anything but personal gain. When I read about unconsious women at the scene of an accident being raped, people hacked up with a machete, pit bull fights, blatent disregard for laws and life, it disturbs me. When 8 out of 10 most wanted in your city are from Mexico or South America and you have the Latin Kings and the M18 or whatever doing unbelievable things in your town….you are worried. When you can’t order a hamburger or get a job because you don’t speak Spanish in America……it’s a concern. When, as a parent, you can’t take a stand for what you beleive for fear of what will happen to your child at school…it’s scarey. When you can’t sleep at night for music blaring, or fear to tell them to cut the volume at 3AM, it’s just not America anymore. When they can march by the thousands in the street and we let them, but violence breaks loose and you can’t oppose them without violence….there’s a problem. And there is a problem.

i’m an urban girl ,quiet ambitious abt the future,i’m pressed to get engaged to a person living in a rural place,well educated but not ambitious……we chatted and the wavelength of our coversations drifts in two planes.
my parents and relatives are really in for it.
after the initial confused "yes" i ‘m having second thoughts
should i break the engagement…
its gonna be a social question..coz we hail from a conservative family.

The guy is well educated and not ambitious is what you have perceived. Certain people, though very meticulous and well planned, generally do not exhibit it as a part of their disposition and keep a ‘happy go easy attitude’. That is the way they are! They do not beleive in being very vocal about it.

If that is not the case and you do not have any faith in the guy, you should consider your options to say ‘quits’ right now.

What are some nice areas of Seattle to live in? My husband will work at Microsoft (Redmond), and I will probably work downtown. I don’t mind a commute (I have a 30 min. – 1 hour commute now).

I have 2 dogs and will need a fenced backyard. We do not have children. I am accustomed to living in the suburbs 30 miles outside Nashville, TN. I want something not too urban, but not too rural either, with decent access to shopping, entertainment, etc.

You should just live in Redmond then or Bellevue. Bellevue is like a mini-Seattle. It’s about 10 miles from the city, but with traffic it can take you awhile to get into work. Bellevue has a ton of shopping, restaurants, movie theaters, etc.

Redmond is really nice. That’s where I live. It has the Redmond Town Center shopping mall, which has a lot of restaurants, Macy’s, Rei, etc. Plus, downtown has a lot of restaurant options too. Redmond is a little farther from downtown Seattle and with traffic (which is likely for you commuting) it can take an hour or more to get into the city. It can get a little rural in Redmond, but only if you go farther east. There’s an awesome dog park that I take our dog to weekly. Plus, they’re building condos and stuff downtown which look pretty nice.

I think Bellevue would be a happy medium for you guys, or even Kirkland. It also has a bustling downtown area, but not huge. I just mean it has a lot of restaurants and a few boutiques. Although, I’d say Bellevue by far has the best shopping, then Redmond, then Kirkland.

All three cities have plenty of housing options. I don’t know where you’re coming from, but the median house cost can get pricey. I don’t know what your budget is. We recently bought our house in Redmond on an acre and a half of land for right around $500K and that was on the cheap side. However, it is a buyer’s market right now, so a lot of places for sale have been forced to do price reductions, so you may luck out.

I hope that helps! Good luck!

I’am from California and I recently visited some family in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I also got to see a little of East Texas (Tyler), Central Texas (Austin), and West Texas (El Paso). Anyway, I really enjoyed the time that I spent in Texas. The people seem to be pretty nice and hospitable throughout the state and their seems to be so much to see and do there (and PLENTY of space) that I’am thinking of possibly buying a vacation home there someday. I’am really into watersports and Texas seems to have plenty of good-sized lakes (I counted over 20 just in the Dallas-Fort Worth area) and a coastline where I could go. I’am an outdoor enthusiast in general. so I pretty much like anything that can be done outside the home, and Texas seem to offer almost everything. So would having a second home someday in Texas be a good idea? Where are some of the best places to have vacation homes in Texas (rural and urban)? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If I were you I would choose Austin, Austin is a great place if your into music. We have tons of venues all around Austin. We are the live music capital. We also have beautiful hill country views that are just breath taking. Every one in Austin is extremely friendly. Traffic is so so but people since the people are nice it is easy to get around. Sandra Bullock and Matthew McConahey (sorry dont think I spelled that right) are some of the locals. Lake Travis is a beautiful blue lake that you can swim, fish and go boating in. The only thing it doesnt have is a place to surf but Galveston is only 2.5 hrs away. Trust me if you choose austin you will live anywhere else.

Less invasive techniques (endovascular coiling for brain hemorrhages, port access heart surgeries) are generally concentrated in large urban hospitals. Apparently, this takes place because the patients that require these techniques are more complex and require many specialists available 24/7. The large urban hospitals usually have more specialist available 24/7. Doctors that treat these complex patients often move them to the large urban hospitals. The fact that these less invasive techniques are concentrated in the large urban hospitals means that many patients have to travel great distances to obtain these services. Another way of looking at this is: if you have (for example) a brain hemorrhage and are in a rural area, hundreds of miles from the large urban hospitals, you probably will not get these less invasive services. The surgeons in the hospital that treats you will have to drill into your skull. Assume that we could change, whatever, we need to. What would we need to change to move these techniques to more of the rural hospitals?

One problem with what you propose is that medical personnel need lots of practice to gain & maintain special skills. I would not want a member of my family treated by someone who hardly ever does a procedure. Putting highly trained specialists in a rural setting would not be maximizing a valuable resource.

However, I do understand that when the patient is you or a family member, you want the very best medical resources. A local doctor cannot offer the same expertise available in urban or university hospitals, so he/she can only provide what procedures he/she has been trained to perform.

As a resident in a rural community I have been faced with limited medical choices. When specialized treatment has been necessary, our family has chosen to travel wherever we can find the best resource. On emergencies that has never been more than 5 hours away, & on the two traumatic occasions when time was critical, fortunately helicopters were dispatched to carry family members to a topnotch trauma center. For dentistry & elective treatments I have several times traveled abroad, not only because it was cheaper, but I received much better care than was available here in the U.S. I travel 3,000 miles each way to get new contact lenses because the prescriptions are better there. For anything less than emergency care we can be really good consumers & seek the best for the cost of airline ticket & maybe a motel.

A good medical team includes doctors as well as informed patients & their families. We have a responsibility to become knowledgeable members of this team, & to not only determine what is best for ourselves, but to know how to choose good care & to ask good questions. In your example of a brain hemorrhage, we have to know to ask if there are alternative treatments.

I don’t think rural residents are necessarily shortchanged in medical care. In my experience, local care has been exceptionally good. The one & only pediatrician in our county grew up here, & is so dedicated that she established a foundation to further assist our children. Our primary care provider actually specialized in rural medicine, & was trained to provide excellent care without resorting to unnecessary testing. Our vet actually remembers how much my cats weighed last year & has offered to make house calls because she thought that might be less traumatic for them than being transported to her office.
Do I think these docs are better because they don’t have to carry large patient loads? Yup. Do I think the American medical system could be improved? You betcha, & I also believe that it’s not going to be an easy task. The care of some patients, as in your example, is going to be compromised. Several times over the years members of my family have been advised to undergo procedures that were not as effective or were more invasive than necessary. Fortunately computer access & there is no reason today for anyone to not conduct due diligence on any care provider or procedure. Often there are options if we take the time for a bit of research. Emergencies may limit health care options, but for the most part, for those who have money & good insurance, there is little excuse for not seeking optimal care. Unfortunately for those with limited resources, there are few options. Americans die every day because they cannot afford basic life-saving care. That is truly shameful I had hope during the primaries that someone would take the lead who is devoted to providing universal health care in my lifetime, I don’t even think it’s on the table now. Medical advocates unite!

the creek is located within a rural-urban catchment where rapid development has taken place. The creek itself, has experienced years of deterioration due to industrial pollution and urban run-off. It has been heavily modified in its middle sections to provide flood protection once extensive wetland areas and also in upstream tributaries.
with measurements made, there was no phosphorus or nitrate found.. in fact the water was clear, and seems "healthy".. the only human activity found were mats and garbage..

Areas of land are divided into drainage basins (large and small) separated by divides (high points along ridges) that drain rain and snow melt to a lake or the sea, etc. Anything dumped into the drainage basin may find its way to the creak (or river) through surface runoff or movement of groundwater (especially near dumps, etc.). Flood control projects often spare land but increase the prospects of flooding downstream because upstream flooding provides a buffer. Stream velocities may increase without flooding scouring the stream beds.