Tranquil village life

They say that living in a village rather than a larger urban environment is much nicer, cleaner and you'll probably live a lot longer - BULLSHIT !!! - it will only seem longer

 

Living in tranquil could perhaps make one live longer
Whether tranquil is possible in a very remote village or large urban area is an enitirely different topic

 

.... but you need to see the entirety of the film to appreciate whether tranquility is possible in this Chinese village.

 

I will watch the video in the evening.

My cousin visited a remote region full of mountains. People live on mountain tops and send their chidlren to the school in the adjacent mountain top. My cousin lived there for a week. He was so surprised how little the people had, and how slow their life was, but they were so happy and healthy.

I also know another guy who lived in Bombay and absolutely loved it. He would travel everywhere in local train and so much loved the crowd, food, culture and the fast life.

 

I live in a tranquil bucolic little village; a small, blindingly lily-White community of mostly elderly bourgeois retirees.
My mate adamantly believes that the sinister cabal of wicked neighbors surrounding her has acquired top-secret energy weapons, including microwave, ultrasonic, and laser, from Mexican drug cartels (with the connivance of the local college), with which they have attacked and wounded her on multiple occasions. She believes she has been irradiated (ionizing), and is being sickened by EMF radiation emanating from her mattress. She sees very odd lights at night from neighboring houses and the kitchen stove, which she interprets as malevolent, although she cannot articulate the nature of the threat. She continues to believe that we're under surveillance; our house is bugged, phone tapped, internet hacked; they communicate with one another via the street lights. Malevolent people creep through our woods at night; dragging things. She now regards the entire community as a lethal threat.
Tiny hamlet or sprawling megalopolis; no matter; wherever you go; there you are. The only Zen you will find on the mountaintop is that which you brought with you.

 

@Piobaire On a side note, does your mate do drugs? If not have you checked her living space for mold? for some people who are vulnerable to mold, the presence of mold (mostly hidden in the crawlspace, attic or even behind drywall) can cause brain fog, paranoia, kind of symptoms.

 

No; she's notoriously non-compliant with meds (even vitamin supplements) and has never indulged recreationally. Her idea of 'breaking bad' is a glass of sweet dessert wine every two years or so.
No mold.
Delusional disorder/persecutory type, compounded by a TBI in a car wreck 3 years ago.

 

Villages are overcrowded...

 

really depends on where in the world, level and availabilty of public transit, shared perspectives of the people who live there.
personally i've lived in both, and to me, its cities that are crap. people in american villages can be f'd up to, but really that has less to do with the size of community then a lot of people seem to think. swiss villages as mentioned here appeal to me, as does a hermits off grid cabin, in a forest, beyond the villages. but again where you can catch a train or a bus into a town big enough to have affordable grocery shopping.

 

And the village in the original film ???

 

Just don't move to Midsomer County. Must be the highest per capita murder rate in the world. I'm rather surprised it hasn't been thoroughly depopulated by now.

 

Sort of like Cabot Cove.

 

of course, every place is wonderful if you don't have to live there and you're only passing through for a visit.
at least as long as you can get back out alive. just sayin there's no magic to the size of a place.
well switzerland, from what i hear, is like the gotrocks hill of europe. mere mortals probably can't afford to live there,
kind of like what the san francisco bay area is to the california i grew up in. but where i did live, had less then a thousand people,
and was surrounded by mountainous forest.

every place is different from what we expect of it, and from every other place. or at least until humans screw it up by trying to make them all the same.

 

my place is wonderful. I live here since 2012 fall. I give most of that credit to my neighbors.

 

I can't see the neighbors... and they can't see me.

It's better that way.

 

I am glad that works out for ya
I had seen real bad neighborhood stories in FB communities

 

It's really not a "neighborhood"... It's rural and not many homes are clustered together. Seems everybody's home is near the road, though. Mine is about 1/4 mile off the road.

Basically, it looks like nobody is here.

 

kinda place i mostly grew up in
love lots a non human visitors, skunks, porcupines, even deer being common. mostly little guys. large predators pretty much keep to themselves and stay out of sight.
and lots and lots of different kinds of vegetation and diverse terrain.

village just has completely different meaning, other then population being small, and even that relative, from say where i grew up in northern california, to what people great britain would think of or call one, to nepal or sub saharan africa, to south america to the rez, which isn't even one thing either. well served by public transportation and other infrastructure technologies, good internet, for example. like that example in switzerland. each completely different in concept from each other.

and then each of us. we're all different as to how much and what kind of social contact we prefer and feel comfortable with. to me, its only a village if it has less then a couple of thousand humans within a surrounding of five miles or so. any more then that, a couple thousand to maybe twenty thousand or so, is a town, although again a lot depends upon available services. anything more then 20,000 is a city, whether it calls itself one or not. public transportation, exotic eateries, and institutions of higher education, (and people interested in non-everyday things that come with them) are the only redeeming values of larger communities, and then only if they have them. and there's really no rule that says villages, or even semi-wilderness can't.

 

People, people, people, you're all missing the point of this discussion - go back and view the film clip again, paying attention to how one gets into or out of that village.

 

there are many points. one is that a cleche is a cleche.
another is that we don't have to choose to make our world unpleasantly stressful for each other.

if people want excitement, that's fine for those who do,
if people find excitement a distraction from what they really themselves enjoy,
that is just as equally valid.

non-urban life, doesn't have to be any more "conservative/conventional/mundane" then that to be found among the larger numbers of people in cities.
the point, i believe, is the availability and accessibility of amenities. and again, smaller communities don't have to be poor second cousins,
even if that is how some people insist upon thinking of them.