Price Signals and Cheap Living (fwd)

[Adam L. Beberg]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, carey wrote:

> 1) Being a female, its not terribly hard to look historically and maybe
> guestimate why women wanted to be in the city.  Its close to everything!  If

Women GATHER, locality is everything. Men HUNT, need lots of land for that.
There are no malls in Kansas.

> 2) Its close to other humans. If you're stuck in the house with nothing but
> kids, the logic might drive you to find adults who you can at least
> commiserate with.   :)   You dont' get much of that in Mead, Ok.

Yes, Alphas to sneak off and mate with when the husband is away.

> 3)  The 'better women ' argument.  Is it really 'better' or just 'more'?

More, unless you're in a tech city, in which case it's none.

>     If cities are so inherently desirable to women, how do you explain
> sprawl?   Suburbanization?   Or this whole dating scenario with the millions
> of women who are single, living in cities alone, sans a male?

Back to the territory to hunt, men want to be where they can fence off
something, thus the burbs.

*taunt*

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
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