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[–] Aux@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know that NYC counts as a rural area, pardon me.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It turns out that over 97% of people in the US do not live in NYC. I don't know why you think when I cited rural America I would have even possibly been trying to cover NYC...

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because 97% of Americans don't live in rural areas.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Well, it gets trickier.

About 20% unambiguously live in 'rural'. That's pretty significant and a lot of folks that get hit with this are in that 20%.

But 'urban' can be... not very urban. So the example led with NYC, the biggest and most dense city by a wide wide margin. I live within one of the top 50 cities and need to rent a truck on occasion. I'll say for sake of argument roughly the top 50 cities represent areas that are so well served they shouldn't need a truck. Only 15% of the US population lives in the top 50 cities. Only 30% live in cities larger than 100,000 people, if you want to assert that relatively smaller cities 'should' be better served. So 70% of people live outside of cities over 100,000....